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“ Unless disabled people are brought together into the development mainstream, it will be impossible to cut poverty in half by 2010 or to give every girl and boy a chance to achieve a primary education by the same date - goals agreed to by more than 180 world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000”

 

Ex-president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn

 

Handicap & The Millenium Development Goals

During the UN Summer Summit in 2000 189 world leaders agreed to try and eradicate the most important problems the world is confronted with by 2015. 8 tangible objectives were formulated as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).