The UK and the Millennium Development
Goals
1.1 In September 2008 governments, activists,
businesses, and individuals came together at the United Nations in New
York in a Call to Action to address global poverty. Over twenty years after
images of suffering from Ethiopia sparked a public outcry and drove governments
to action, this meeting was a testament to how far the world has come.
In the years since that famine, the challenge of reducing poverty and the
needs of the world's poorest people have been brought centre stage as
never before.