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Secretary-General's MDG Advocay Group

Secretary General's MDG Advocacy Group

Media

Photos

Look at a photo gallery of the Advocates.

Op-eds

What role do indigenous people and forests have in a sustainable future? (May 2015) By Erna Solberg , Prime Minister of Norway in collaboration with Ambassador Dho Young-shim and Stine Bosse
Coming Together for Water for the Word (January 2012) By Jan Eliasson
The maligned malaria (April 2011) By Tony Blair and Ray Chambers
Sanitary water: the key to preventing epidemics (February 2011) By Jan Eliasson
Cancún must be about more than climate change (November 2010) By Wangari Maathai
Africa must feed itself (October 2010) By Akin Adesina, Wangari Maathai and Graça Machel
Replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (October 2010)
By Akin Adesina, Mukesh Ambani, Stine Bosse, Ray Chambers, Dho Young-Shim, Philippe Douste-Blazy, Jan Eliasson, Julio Frenk, Graça Machel, Wangari Maathai and Jeffrey Sachs

Interviews

Erna Solberg on empowering women through education (May 2014)
Julio Frenk on global health, women and girls, education and more (December 2010)
Akin Adesina on agriculture and the Advocacy Group's plans to achieve MDG 1, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger (July 2010)

Articles

UN NewsCentre Stories

UN Advocates agree to targeted actions in support of anti-poverty goals (September 2011)
MDG Advocates have agreed to lead a series of targeted actions to boost the achievement of the United Nations targets to slash hunger, poverty, disease and lack of access to education by 2015.
Ban mobilizes his ‘superheroes’ to give added thrust to MDGs (September 2010)
Continuing his drive to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rallied his “superheroes,” a group of eminent personalities he appointed to boost the effort to slash hunger, poverty, disease and lack of access to education by 2015.
Role of UN advocacy group vital to achieving anti-poverty targets, Ban says (July 2010)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored the vital role played by the group of current and former political leaders, businesspeople and thinkers he set up last month to spur action on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), stating that the time has come to turn commitments into action.
Ban unveils ‘collection of superheroes’ to help eradicate poverty (June 2010)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that he is establishing an advocacy group of eminent persons to try to galvanize support worldwide towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their target date of 2015.

Videos

MDG Summit, 22 September 2010
The MDG Advocacy Group meets at a special event during the Summit in New York.

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