Caritas Urges G-8 Leaders to Make Good on Commitment

June 26th, 2008

According to Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, “There is now a real danger that the Millennium Development Goals will be remembered as empty words. This can only fuel the cynicism with which so many people in developing countries already regard rich countries’ expressions of concern.”

World leaders set 2015 as the target date for the achievement of the eight MDGs as an unambiguous challenge to political commitment.

Cardinal Rodriguez added, “Now seven and a half years after the Millennium Declaration we are half way towards the target year of 2015 and it is clear that too many countries will fail to achieve the goals. In some cases, at present rates of progress, they may have to wait more than a hundred years before the goals are reached.

Read the Joint Caritas Internationalis and CIDSE statement to the G-8 of June 25, 2008.

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