Abstract
That much more must be done to meet the Millennium Development Goals is evident. The proposals put forth by Douste-Blazy and the new pledges announced at the recent UN MDG Summit are steps in the right direction. More fundamentally, what is required is to recognize that the MDGs are not merely “goals” to aim for, hitting or missing as the case may be. Rather, they are about realizing rights which governments, individually and collectively, have pre-existing legal obligations to uphold and ensure.
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Mooney, Erin
(2010)
"The Misnomer of MDGs? When Goals Are Rights,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 10:
Iss.
9, Article 5.
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