Image by: United Nations The UN headquarters in New York during its Special Assembly on HIV-AIDS. Image by: United Nations Source: Secular News Services

On September 8, 2000, the United Nations made a Millennium Declaration identifying 8 goals intended to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination; all 189 UN Member States have pledged to meet those goals by the year 2015. The General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church also works toward a list of broad goals, the third and fourth of which encompass the same visions of the UN Millennium Declaration. As the United Nations marks the 57th anniversary of its charter, we applaud their work and will continue to help meet those eight goals by 2015.

The General Board of Church and Society has designated October 27, 2002 United Nations Special Sunday. The theme is God’s World Fit for Children. The children of the world have a message for us all:

We are the world’s children.
We are the victims of exploitation and abuse.
We are street children.
We are the children of war.
We are the victims and orphans of HIV/AIDS.
We are denied good-quality education and health care.
We are victims of political, economic, cultural, religious and environmental discrimination.
We are children whose voices are not being heard: it is time we are taken into account.
We want a world fit for children, because a world fit for us is a world fit for everyone.

From the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children, May 8-10, 2002

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	See Also... Topic: Advocacy |  Children |  Communities |  International affairs |  Peace |  Geographic Region: World |  Source: GBGM Mission News
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Date posted: Oct 24, 2002