UN chief says nations fail to meet some key anti-poverty targets

PanARMENIAN.Net - The UN Secretary-General says that nations are falling short in meeting some of the key anti-poverty targets set for 2015, according to The Associated Press.

Ban Ki-moon is calling on nations to step up help in making primary education universal, ensure more women survive childbirth and have more children live past the age of 5.

Ban says in a new report Monday, Julyl 1, at the start of a UN Economic and Social Council month-long session that nations already met some UN targets agreed in 2000 such as halving the proportion of people who live in extreme poverty and who lack access to safe drinking water.

However, the council’s president, Colombia’s ambassador at the UN, Nestor Osorio Londono, said 1 billion people still live in “extreme poverty.”