Failing The Development Goals

Rights and Democracy conference provides stage for critiques

Published June 15, 2005

The headlong rush of development agencies to reduce the level of world poverty, hunger and disease is bypassing the poorest populations for quicker gains elsewhere, cautioned Patrick Van Weerlet, a human rights advisor to the United Nations Development Program.

He warned that in the race to achieve results by 2015 on a set of anti-poverty benchmarks, known as the Millennium Development Goals, some...

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