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Article: Indigenous peoples and the MDGs: inclusive and culturally sensitive solutions.(Millennium Development Goals )
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- UN Chronicle
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- March 1, 2008
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summarize the development targets agreed to at international conferences and world summits during the 1990s. At the end of the last century, world leaders distilled the key goals and targets in the Millennium Declaration adopted in September 2000. The Declaration reaffirms the universal values of human rights, equality, mutual respect and shared responsibility for the conditions of all peoples. It also seeks to redress globalization's hugely unequal benefits and the Governments' commitments to fulfilling their obligations by 2015.
The Millennium Declaration, signed by 147 Heads of State and Government, has provided an ...