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Where does the 8 Goals Campaign come from?
What does the Campaign do?
Who are the organizations involved?
Why are students essential to the Campaign?

Where does the 8 Goals Campaign come from? 

Since the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, all member countries, including Canada, have signed a Millennium Declaration committing to do their part to fight extreme poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. 

This agreement generated the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – eight goals placing human well-being and development at the forefront of the global agenda and international cooperation policies and programs.

After the Summit in 2000, the United Nations launched a worldwide Millennium Campaign to encourage young people's involvement in supporting the MDGs.  In Canada, organizations and student groups concerned with global issues decided to combine their efforts in one Canadian campaign: 8 Goals for a Better World.  By championing the Goals together and calling for policies to achieve them, students and organizations can multiply their power, ideas, and impact.  

What does the Campaign do?

The 8 Goals Campaign mobilizes Canadian post-secondary students to champion the Millennium Development Goals.  Once informed on the issues, we can work together and call for policies to strengthen Canada's contribution to global development.

Who are the organizations involved?

www.apathyisboring.com	www.aqoci.qc.ca
www.ewb.ca	www.makepovertyhistory.ca
www.nsi-ins.ca	www.oxfam.qc.ca
www.rightsdemocracy.net	www.uniterra.org
www.cfs-fcee.ca	www.feuq.qc.ca

 Supporters

Why are students essential to the Campaign?

The world has made progress on the Goals but so much remains to be done. We are half-way to the 2015 target. Public support and the political will in Canada, as elsewhere, must increase to achieve the Goals. As students we are in a unique position to champion the Goals and call for policies to achieve them because:

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