This report is sending a very clear signal that most of the Millennium Development Goals will be missed in most countries if we continue on the current trend.
More Quotes from Kevin Watkins:
The Index shows in clear, cold numbers that many countries are not only failing to progress, but are actually slipping backward, and they will continue on that downhill path unless the international community steps in to help with more resources and new policies.Kevin Watkins
We have seen four years of wrangling without anything happening. They are stuck in quicksand, and if they don't get out by December the round will collapse.
Kevin Watkins
We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.
Kevin Watkins
If this summit doesn't produce a strong commitment to strengthen cooperation around the Millennium Development Goals...then we may as well forget the project.
Kevin Watkins
The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.
Kevin Watkins
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.Angelina Grimke
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
Ambrose Bierce
I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.
Eric Cantona