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United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals September 20th, 2010
Achieving universal primary education by 2015 is Goal 2 of the MDGs
Global leaders have gathered for the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in New York which runs September 20-22. The world is watching to see if this summit will make serious progress towards achieving the eight MDG goals by 2015.
In September 2000, world leaders came together at United Nations Headquarters to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets with a deadline of 2015. The goals adopted became known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The eight MDGs are broken down into 21 quantifiable targets that are, in turn, measured by 60 indicators.
1. Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty;
2. Achieve universal primary education;
3. Promote gender equality and empower women;
4. Reduce child mortality;
5. Improve maternal health;
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases;
7. Ensure environmental sustainability;
8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development.
A calendar of side events at the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals.
Watch Live the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals.
Take Action on Poverty, Immigration and Slavery September 16th, 2010
Get involved in Stand Up this weekend. Press for action on the Millennium Development Goals. Find an event in your area.
Ask Congress to Support the DREAM Act! Learn more…
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Ask Congress to Support the DREAM Act! September 14th, 2010
Congress is only back in session for a couple of weeks before the November election. Momentum is strong in Congress to help immigrant youth. They can do this by passing the DREAM Act.
Young people who have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives but who were brought to the US illegally, often as young children, face a difficult future. These children have grown up in our communities and include honor roll students, star athletes, talented artists, and aspiring environmental scientists, doctors, and entrepreneurs. They face unique barriers to higher education. Unable to work legally in the United States, they often live in fear of deportation. This is a terrible loss both for them and for the larger society.
Bipartisan Support for the DREAM Act
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JPIC Resource on Immigration Reform Now Available September 8th, 2010
A new booklet on Immigration Reform by the Oblate JPIC Immigration Network is now available. Designed to help and educate those in Oblate ministries about the issue of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States, it offers ideas about what you can do to make a difference. Learn more about U.S./Mexico border policy, voices of faith in Immigration reform and Comprehensive Immigration Reform talking points.
Please Take Action to Affirm the Dignity of Human Life September 3rd, 2010
Teresa Lewis is scheduled to be executed September 23, 2010 in Virginia. She was convicted in 2002 of persuading two men to kill her husband and stepson. Teresa Lewis has been on death row in Virginia since June 2003.
Now 41 and a mother and grandmother, Teresa Lewis would be the first woman executed in Virginia since 1912.
In solidarity with the Virginia Catholic Bishops, the U.S. Catholic bishops and the Papal Nuncio, we ask you please to contact Governor McDonnell and urge him to commute Teresa Lewis’s sentence to life in prison.
TAKE ACTION HERE : CONTACT VA GOVERNOR TO STOP EXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 23.
