Reuters – Magdalena Mis
“Millions of the world’s poorest children are denied a fair start in life and many more will be left behind unless they’re put at the center of new development goals for 2030, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. World leaders are due to adopt later this year a set of new development objectives, such as ending poverty, reducing child mortality and tackling climate change, to replace 8 expiring U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, are expected to be adopted at a U.N. summit in September. Despite global progress on achieving MDGs, unequal opportunities have left nearly 600 million children living in extreme poverty on less than $1.25 a day, many denied education, healthcare and suffering from malnutrition, said UNICEF.”(more)