Daily Outlook Afghanistan
The world’s huge challenges such as human rights violations, insecurity, economic and food crisis required an all-out international plan that is reflected in the Millennium Development Goals. MDGs are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges.
The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations-and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000.
The Millennium Declaration sets the United Nations (UN) agenda for peace, security and development concerns in the 21st Century, including in the areas of environment, human rights, and governance.
Adopting the Declaration, the U.N. General Assembly called upon the whole UN system to assist Member States in the implementation of this Declaration In order to guide the UN system in this task, the Secretary-General prepared a “road-map” for implementing goals.
During the presentation of his first annual progress report on implementing the Millennium Declaration, United Nations’ previous Secretary-General, Kofi Annan warned that prospects for reaching the MDGs on current trends are uncertain, with marked differences between and within regions.
Opening the UN General Assembly's 63rd annual debate, UN Chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday stressed the need for "global leadership" as he pressed world leaders not to pursue narrow national interests in the face of hard economic times.
He spoke of a "challenge of global leadership" to tackle the world's worsening financial, energy and food crises. Ban, who has chosen implementation of key poverty reduction goals as a major theme of this year's debate, said he saw "a danger of retreating from the progress we have made, particularly in the realm of development and more equitably sharing the fruits of global growth."
Perusing the current indicators of world development and measurement of eradication of poverty, insecurity and economic and food crisis through out the globe, it comes true saying that global leadership is strongly challenged today.
To prove efficiency of world leaders’ performances, they should, in concert, launch political, social and economic initiatives to overcome today’s big menaces threatening the human community’s interests.
