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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="3"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009<br><br><br></span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Recent gains in eradicating hunger and poverty endangered by economic and food crises, says UN report</span></font></i></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Available online PDF [60p.] at: <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202009%20ENG.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202009%20ENG.pdf</span></font></a></span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">6 July, Geneva</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">  </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">“…..More than halfway to the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), major advances in the fight against poverty and hunger have begun to slow or even reverse as a result of the global economic and food crises, a progress report by the United Nations has found. The assessment, launched by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva, warns that, despite many successes, overall progress has been too slow for most of the targets to be met by 2015….”<br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Press release; <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20Global%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20Global%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf</span></font></a> <br>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-SIZE: 9.5pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regional press releases: <br><a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20LatinAmerica%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Latin America</span></font></a> , <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20North%20Africa%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">North Africa</span></font></a> , <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20Western%20Asia%20MDG09%20ARA.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Western Asia</span></font></a> ,<a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/Sub-Saharan%20Africa.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Sub-Saharan Africa</span></font></a> , <a href="http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/PR%20CIS%20MDG09%20ENG.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">CIS </span></font></a><br>
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