Sustainable development summit must address inequality that makes people undertake dangerous journeys to the west The contrast could hardly be sharper. Razor wire fences are being constructed to keep the uprooted destitute out of the European Union at the very moment the United Nations meets to agree anti-poverty goals for the next 15 years.
No question,the gathering in unusual York will be a regular jamboree. There will be mutual backslapping approximately the progress that has been made over the past 15 years, a good deal of it justified. Countries will solemnly pledge to meet the 17 sustainable development goals, and with 169 specific targets,by 2030. They will turn a blind eye to what is happening in Serbia, Hungary, and Croatia and Austria.
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Source: theguardian.com