ANT 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: United Nations Millennium Declaration, Headquarters Of The United Nations, Millennium Development Goals
4 Dec 2017
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In 2000, world leaders gathered at the united nations headquarters in new york city to adopt the united nations millennium declaration, which committed nations to policies aimed at eradicating extreme world poverty by 2015. The goals of the declaration, known as the millennium development goals, include ending poverty and hunger, fighting gender inequality, protecting maternal health, providing universal primary education, and working towards environmental sustainability. To define poverty and to understand its causes and effects. To understand theoretical and methodological approaches to poverty. Develop critical thinking skills necessary to engage poverty issues. And because most of us have been poor (or will be) at least for awhile . Poverty is pain; it feels like a disease. it attacks a person not only materially but also morally. it eats away one"s dignity and drives one into total despair - ethiopian farmer. Poverty is complex; many aspects are interconnected. some of its causes and effects make a cycle:
