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UN Millennium Campaign
urges decisive actions from new
administration
MEDIA RELEASE FROM THE UN MILLENNIUM
CAMPAIGN
http://ph.one.un.org/standup
MANILA,
Philippines, June 9, 2010 – The Philippines
only has five years left to achieve the
eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
that the government committed to in the 2000
Millennium Declaration. While there has been
progress in some areas, the country remains
off-track in more than 40 percent of the 21
indicators, the Asia-Pacific Regional Report
for 2009-2010 cited.
The MDGs are time-bound, concrete and
specific goals that 189 world leaders
committed to achieving by 2015 at the United
Nations Summit in September 2000. These
goals are: 1) end extreme poverty and
hunger; 2) achieve universal primary
education; 3) promote gender equality and
empower women; 4) reduce child mortality; 5)
improve maternal health; 6) combat HIV/AIDS,
malaria and other diseases; 7) ensure
environmental sustainability and 8) develop
a global partnership for development.
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Noy told: ‘Don’t do a
Gloria’
Release budget on time - Group
Taking the
lawmakers’ pork barrel hostage, as well as
impounding budget for basic social services
will make President-apparent Benigno
“Noynoy” Aquino III no different from Pres.
Gloria Arroyo who is notorious for taking
control of the people’s purse, budget
activists said.
Prof. Leonor
Magtolis-Briones, lead convenor of Social
Watch Philippines (SWP) which initiated the
internationally-recognized Alternative
Budget Initiative (ABI) said “Aquino should
not do a Gloria” by ordering the release of
the budget on time.
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