Millenium Summit: 10 Years On | UNICEF

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Even in the world's richest countries, one in every six children still lives below the national poverty line. Subscribe to UNICEF here: http://bit.ly/1ltTE3m In September of 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in human history convened for the Millennium Summit at United Nations headquarters in New York. In that pivotal year, representatives from 189 Member States of the United Nations met to reflect on their common destiny. The nations were interconnected as never before, with increased globalization promising faster growth, higher living standards and new opportunities. Yet their citizens' lives were starkly disparate. As some States looked ahead to prosperity and global cooperation, many barely had a future, being mired in miserable, unending conditions of poverty, conflict and a degraded environment. Some 1.1 billion people were -- and still are -- forced to live on less than $1 a day, and 30 per cent of these are children. Even in the world's richest countries, one in every six children still lives below the national poverty line. To learn more...please visit: http://www.unicef.org/mdg/ The official UNICEF YouTube channel is your primary destination for the latest news updates from the frontline, documentaries, celebrity appeals, and more about our work to get the rights of every child realized. Click here to see all of our latest trending videos: http://smarturl.it/TrendingAtUNICEF For more about UNICEF's work, visit: http://www.unicef.org Follow UNICE

Published 2010-08-25 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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