International development organisation WaterAid has launched a damning new report to mark the ten year anniversary of the signing of the UN Millennium Declaration. The report comes just two weeks before world leaders will meet again at the UN to review the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were set out in 2000 to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty. At current rates of progress, the 2015 target to halve the proportion of people living without sanitation will not be met globally until 2049; and in Sub-Saharan Africa not until the 23rd century, some 200 years late. (extract PSI web)
http://www.wateraid.org/international/about_us/newsroom/8658.asp
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