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Is This The Generation That Eradicates Extreme Poverty?

Is This The Generation That Eradicates Extreme Poverty?

by The Daily Eye Team January 30 2016, 11:24 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 35 secs

The year 2015 was a once in a generation event for the world’s citizens and for the planet. In one year, a new blueprint was created to tackle the world’s thorniest issues. Issues that affect all of us, like climate change, sustainable development and natural disasters. From the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction to the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development, from the Sustainable Development Summit in New York to the climate conference in Paris, it was a year in which the United Nations, in the words of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, proved it is able “to deliver hope and healing to the world.”

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