RESEND: WCC General Secretary says new global economic framework is needed to met MDG 2015

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Date Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:27:32 +0200

World Council of Churches - News

WCC GENERAL SECRETARY SAYS NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK IS NEEDED TO
MEET MDG 2015

For immediate release: 22 September 2010

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The general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr 
Olav
Fykse Tveit, wrote today in a letter to UN secretary general Ban 
Ki-Moon
that "without significant transformations in global economic 
frameworks
the attainment of the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) by 2015 is
endangered.”

Referring to the current UN high-level summit on the MDGs taking 
place in
New York, the letter expressed concern that governments need to do 
more to
address the root causes of poverty. The MDGs were adopted by world 
leaders
in 2000.

Without addressing the root causes of poverty, justice-oriented 
reforms
will not be possible, Tveit said in the letter.  And it is these 
reforms
that will end inequality in the current world economic structures.

“In today’s globalized world, efforts by nations to meet the MDGs are
more and more contingent on an “enabling international economic
environment,” Tveit continued. “The WCC believes that addressing the
root causes of poverty and the attainment of the MDGs necessitates
significant and comprehensive changes in the international financial
architecture and trade regime.”

The WCC is a fellowship of some 349 member churches from around the 
world
including Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and some Pentecostal and
Evangelical churches representing nearly 550 million Christians.

Full text of the letter (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=4ab4442d543a79015361 )

WCC statement to the UN, 14-15 June, 2010 (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=8944ca0f13e4bd5a423c )

WCC work on poverty,wealth and ecology and the impact of economic
globalization (Link:
http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=474c0a9bdbc5c698912a )


The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, 
witness 
and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship 
of 
churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 349 
Protestant, 
Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 560 
million 
Christians in over 110 countries, and works cooperatively with the 
Roman 
Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Dr Olav Fykse 
Tveit, 
from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway. Headquarters: Geneva, 
Switzerland.



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