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A White Band rally in Bangladesh—one of many efforts worldwide calling for action against poverty. This event was organized by the People’s Forum on the MDGs and Campaign for Popular Education.
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In mid-September 2005, world leaders will gather at the United Nations to take stock of progress to cut global poverty in half by 2015. This goal is one of several “Millennium Development Goals” (MDGs) meant, among others, to change the circumstances of the world’s poor.
To date, some countries are making strides to combat poverty, while the poor are getting poorer in others. For the West, a security agenda still takes precedence over addressing poverty and its root causes—despite the links between the two. Still, the MDGs have served as a common rallying point for governments, U.N. agencies, and civil society groups. Campaigns by the latter have drawn unprecedented public support for “making poverty history.”
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