Mixed Reception for UN Anti-poverty Action Review

September 27, 2010
By Ecumenical News International

Leaders of global faith and humanitarian groups have given mixed reactions to a New York summit evaluating the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, set out a decade ago to reduce global poverty - write Peter Kenny and Chris Herlinger.

Political leaders at the summit acknowledged that progress towards achieving the eight MDGs by 2015 is not where it should be.