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Eliminating World Poverty: Building our Common Future

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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.