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May 31, 2005—New York—MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, has released an analysis of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a global initiative to end poverty and promote development by 2015. MADRE argues that while the MDGs offer some opportunities for improving the lives of women and families throughout the global South, they fall far short of what is needed to fully address the human rights and development crises confronting the world today.
“The MDGs call for change, but not for creating the conditions to make real change possible. To address the root causes of the problems that the goals are supposed to rectify, we need to grapple with precisely those phenomena that the MDGs take for granted. These include policies that have increased poverty and inequality around the world (such as free-trade agreements, wage freezes, and hostility to worker organizing) and subordinated human rights to ‘national security’ as defined by the Bush Administration,” writes Yifat Susskind, MADRE’s Associate Director.
To read more about MADRE’s analysis of the Millennium Development Goals, please visit http://www.madre.org/articles/int/summer05nl.html.
MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with women's community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide. Its programs reflect a human-rights-based and people-centered approach to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals, which aim to: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development. MADRE provides resources and training to enable our sister organizations to meet immediate needs in their communities and develop long-term solutions to the crises they face. Since MADRE began in 1983, MADRE has delivered over 21 million dollars worth of support to community-based women's groups in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, Asia, and the United States.
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