There are only five years to reach the UN deadline set in the Millennium Development Goals and we feel the failure to be able to overcome any of the eight.
The first objective is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. At first, it makes it impossible especially taking into account the period of crisis in which we are immersed. We can not excuse ourselves. From 2000 to 2008 - the year in which the crisis began, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth processes experienced a global high. United States went from having a GDP in 2000 from 9.765 trillion to 14.1 trillion in 2008. During the same period China increased from 1.193 trillion to 4.327 trillion, South Africa 276.4 billion to 132.9 billion, Australia 1.017 trillion 399.6 billion to 580.7 billion and Spain to 1.604 trillion. There was a boom worldwide.
In 1980 the UN General Assembly finalized the ODA at 0.7% of GDP, however, only Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden met this goal. The rest of the developed countries have maintained its official development assistance by about 0.3%.
The work of the NGOs is not getting easy either. The cancellation of the debt to developing countries has not been effective gone and has only provided its cancellation in special cases, such as Haiti. On 2 April, the Parliamentary Assembly ACP-EU (African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union) passed a resolution in favor of eliminating the debt and accelerate the reconstruction of Haiti.
We can’t wait for disasters to warn us of the needs that poor countries spend, nor provide timely financial assistance. We must help them so they can be independent and can avail loans without requiring countries to make them more debt. With the proper use of all resources of these countries by the Indians will be ready. However, with a debt that a country has had for decades is hard to be independent.
It's easy now to only think of saving ourselves from the crisis and return to the previous boom period, but we must look back at those who live in a permanent crisis and survive on less than a euro or a dollar a day.
The second objective is literacy and education: achieving universal primary education. Although there is no yardstick to measure literacy rates in the world, or to encrypt an age or level of quality of writing and reading, most of the sources takes the age of 15 as the deadline for having achieved a basic education.
In 1998, the UN decided to create the figure, for a period of three years a Special Rapporteur whose mandate will focus on the right to education, as stated in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Currently, the SRP is Vernor Muñoz Villalobos. He is the representative of the struggle against illiteracy and makes reports to analyze this right in case studies.
Knowing that the UN has a specific mandate for literacy is clear that much remains to be done. Not only are children, but also many women and elderly who have not had access to literacy and also falls on them this right.
For example, the Global Humanitaria NGOs have projects to deliver school supplies, classroom construction and teacher training in countries like Guatemala and Nepal. In addition, you do not leave Spain to hear cases of illiteracy (although data are not as flashy) and marginal groups is that there are still cases of children not in school.
It is important to set ourselves apart from a few goals at international level we know to fulfill them. We must realize that a personal level collaboration, such as volunteering for an NGO can make a little help to achieve these objectives which were set to be met in 15 years and that, for now, seem impossible.
The first objective is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. At first, it makes it impossible especially taking into account the period of crisis in which we are immersed. We can not excuse ourselves. From 2000 to 2008 - the year in which the crisis began, the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth processes experienced a global high. United States went from having a GDP in 2000 from 9.765 trillion to 14.1 trillion in 2008. During the same period China increased from 1.193 trillion to 4.327 trillion, South Africa 276.4 billion to 132.9 billion, Australia 1.017 trillion 399.6 billion to 580.7 billion and Spain to 1.604 trillion. There was a boom worldwide.
In 1980 the UN General Assembly finalized the ODA at 0.7% of GDP, however, only Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden met this goal. The rest of the developed countries have maintained its official development assistance by about 0.3%.
The work of the NGOs is not getting easy either. The cancellation of the debt to developing countries has not been effective gone and has only provided its cancellation in special cases, such as Haiti. On 2 April, the Parliamentary Assembly ACP-EU (African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union) passed a resolution in favor of eliminating the debt and accelerate the reconstruction of Haiti.
We can’t wait for disasters to warn us of the needs that poor countries spend, nor provide timely financial assistance. We must help them so they can be independent and can avail loans without requiring countries to make them more debt. With the proper use of all resources of these countries by the Indians will be ready. However, with a debt that a country has had for decades is hard to be independent.
It's easy now to only think of saving ourselves from the crisis and return to the previous boom period, but we must look back at those who live in a permanent crisis and survive on less than a euro or a dollar a day.
The second objective is literacy and education: achieving universal primary education. Although there is no yardstick to measure literacy rates in the world, or to encrypt an age or level of quality of writing and reading, most of the sources takes the age of 15 as the deadline for having achieved a basic education.
In 1998, the UN decided to create the figure, for a period of three years a Special Rapporteur whose mandate will focus on the right to education, as stated in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Currently, the SRP is Vernor Muñoz Villalobos. He is the representative of the struggle against illiteracy and makes reports to analyze this right in case studies.
Knowing that the UN has a specific mandate for literacy is clear that much remains to be done. Not only are children, but also many women and elderly who have not had access to literacy and also falls on them this right.
For example, the Global Humanitaria NGOs have projects to deliver school supplies, classroom construction and teacher training in countries like Guatemala and Nepal. In addition, you do not leave Spain to hear cases of illiteracy (although data are not as flashy) and marginal groups is that there are still cases of children not in school.
It is important to set ourselves apart from a few goals at international level we know to fulfill them. We must realize that a personal level collaboration, such as volunteering for an NGO can make a little help to achieve these objectives which were set to be met in 15 years and that, for now, seem impossible.
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