Thursday, 10 March 2016

Empty Promises and Dead Children (Kevin Watkins, Project-Syndicate)

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Buried among the 169 targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – adopted by the United Nations last September amid a blaze of glitzy events, celebrity endorsements, and back-slapping by world leaders, aid donors, and non-governmental organizations – was the vital pledge to eliminate “preventable child deaths” by 2030. It is a cause for our generation – but one that will take a lot more than UN communiqués to advance.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/eliminating-preventable-child-deaths-by-kevin-watkins-2016-03

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