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Background
The 2005 World Summit,
held from 14 to 16 September at United Nations Headquarters
in New York, is expected to bring together more than 170 Heads
of State and Government: the largest gathering of world leaders
in history. The 2005 World Summit will feature plenary meetings
continuing over the three days.
 About
the Summit PDF
The agenda is based on a set of proposals outlined in March
by Kofi Annan in his report In
Larger Freedom:
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Freedom from Want
Proposals in the area of development call for breakthroughs
in debt relief and trade liberalization, and increases in
aid to revitalize infrastructure and improve health and
education services, in order to achieve the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), including cutting extreme
poverty in half by 2015.
- Freedom
from War
Another major focus of the Summit agenda is to make the
world safer by improving collective security arrangements.
Proposals include initiatives to prevent catastrophic terrorism
and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Member
States are being urged to reach agreement on a universal
definition of terrorism and to sign on to a comprehensive
convention against terrorism.
- Freedom
to Live in Dignity
The three-pronged approach to collective action hinges on
the idea that there can be no development without security,
no security without development, and neither without the
universal application and protection of human rights.
Read
the final summit documents HTML
Further
Information about the Summit and Achieving the MDGs
The official website http://www.un.org/summit2005
UN Millennium Goals website http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
Human Development Report 2005 http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2005/
The report warns that there will be no change under current
trends of fulfilling the promises made at the UN Summit 5
years ago with the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs
ODI's Millenium
Project Portal
This portal provides access to materials relating to the MDGs
summit disaggregated by theme.
IIED Meeting
the MDGs
The latest booklet in IIED's 3 part series, entitled 'How
to Make Poverty History the central role of local organizations
in meeting the MDGs', aims to identify policies and practices
that enhance local development processes. This booklet has
been produced for the UN 2005 World Summit in September 2005
and for IIED's conference, How to Make Poverty History, in
December 2005.
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