The question comes: why people keep talking so much about the United Nations today? Because we are celebrating our largest international organisation twofold. First, today is the United Nations Day . This date marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. As the UN itself, this day aims to remind and encourage “governments and individuals to work in common cause for the common good”. The second link to the UN stresses its work in the field of development. The UN General Assembly instituted the so-called ‘ World Development Information Day ’ in 1972 with the object of raising awareness of world public opinion to development problems and the necessity of strengthening international co-operation to solve them. Tackling development problems to reach development goals: you presumably have heard about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We are talking about eight international development goals set in 2000 to be achieved by 2015. Let’s mention a
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