Support for the Millennium Development Goal One: Ending Extreme Poverty
2005Action of Immediate Witness
On September 12-13, 2005, the leaders of more than 190 nations will convene
at the United Nations to determine the course of the Millennium Development
initiative. Over 154 countries support the Millennium Development Goals, adopted
in 2000. The first of these goals is to reduce extreme poverty by half within
the next ten years. This will take political will and advocacy by people of
faith.
The United States has endorsed the Millennium Development Goals but so far
has not backed up this endorsement with financial support.
The delegates of the 2005 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist
Association urge our member congregations and individual Unitarian Universalists
to remind their congressional representatives that there is increasing support
by religious liberals and religious conservatives alike to reduce extreme
poverty in the world and encourage them to promote this initiative.
Furthermore, we urge all Unitarian Universalist religious leaders at the
international, national, district, and congregational level to inform themselves
about the Millennium Development Goals and to speak out in their communities
about the eradication of extreme poverty.
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