Graça Machel -- Advocate for the Millennium Development Goals
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Channel: United Nations · 2010 · News & Politics
Graça Machel (South Africa / Mozambique),Former First Lady, advocate for women's and children's rights is part of a group of eminent personalities who have shown outstanding leadership in promoting the Millennium Development Goals aimed at slashing poverty, hunger and disease by 2015 -- and are supporting the United Nations Secretary-General in mobilizing global action on the Goals in the run-up to a UN Summit in September 2010. Graça Machel recorded this message, explaining how and why she is promoting the Millennium Development Goals, at a meeting with the UN Secretary-General and other Advocates in Madrid, Spain, on 16 July. Related Websites http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals http://www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010
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