Dear campaigner,
We are writing to you about the 2 billion poor who live on less than $2 (about €1.35) a day. In today’s world, this is simply unacceptable as the core issue is not a lack of resources. What is lacking is the political will.
“End poverty by 2015” is the historic promise our leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, unanimously agreeing to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Now it is time to deliver. On 18 June, during the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council, European leaders will meet to decide and agree upon on the European position. This will be formally presented at the United Nations Summit in New York on 20-22 September, the occasion for world leaders to meet ten years after their initial signing of the Millennium Development Goals.
Make them deliver! Take action! Write to your elected leader, with copy to Prime Minister Yves Leterme of Belgium, which is currently holding the rotating Presidency of the EU Council, asking him/her to outline binding deadlines to increase aid and improve its effectiveness.
