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Please copy and paste the
following letter:
(Click here for postcard)
Dear
Justice Promoter/ Contact Person
Greetings from New York.
We
are a group of religious who represent their communities at the UN.
As
you are aware the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed as
a 15 year programme of action
by all member states of the United Nations in 2000 to make a major
dent in the scourge of world poverty. They are time-bound, measurable
targets.
The 8 Goals aim to address the greatest evils of our time – poverty,
hunger, education, early childhood deaths, gender injustice, destruction
of the environment, halting the killers AIDS, TB and malaria. We
see the MDGs as being very much in harmony with our gospel vision
for a
world where the common wealth is shared and greed never overrides
the need
of our sisters and brothers. They will only be reached if the international
partnership agreed among countries is honoured.
Sadly, the
good progress towards achieving the MDGs was badly affected by the
terrorist
attacks
of September 11, 2001. Much of the money and resources that rich
countries had promised was redirected from development and towards
financing
the ‘war
on terror’.
July 2007 marks the halfway mark of these
time-bound MDGs. The calendar reminds we are halfway there. Are we
halfway there
in ensuring freedom from poverty, malnutrition, childhood deaths,
education for all, gender equality, environmental reprieve etc?
To
mark the halfway point and highlight the urgency of the task, we
have prepared
a postcard. We hope that you will use your contacts and power of
persuasion to encourage your members to send the card to people with
influence re
the MDGs.
We do not intend this to be a once only action.
We hope to offer a variety of resources so we can support our members
to be
a positive force in asking questions of our governments and in ‘keeping
their feet to the fire”.
Thanks for you attention and
your support ‘from the ground’, which is where it really
counts.
In
solidarity,
Names
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