International Conference

‘Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges’.

The public plenary session will be held on Sunday, 29 November 2009, at the State Library Village Roadshow Theatrette, from 6-7.30pm.

The conference will be opened by The Hon Bob McMullan MP, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance. The keynote speech will be by Dr Jan Vandemoortele, former UNDP Resident representative in Pakistan and one of the architects of the MDGs.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a United Nations partnership initiative to eradicate extreme poverty and other forms of disadvantage and human crises by 2015.  The global financial crisis, rising food prices and climate change have significantly impacted the achievement of the MDGs. This conference will critically engage the MDGs and the processes or possibilities for change. One key aim is to bring together development practitioners, academics, policy makers and the business community.

More information is available on the Institute for Human Security website; or register online.