On the eve of the UN Summit on The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some 69 million children who should be in school, aren’t.

If I told you that worldwide, the number of mothers who died during pregnancy dropped has dropped by 1/3 in the past 18 years, I hope you would say “that’s great!”

Tackling poverty and hunger, providing universal education, reducing child mortality, reversing the spread of HIV. Those are just 4 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations in 2000 as key benchmarks to be reached by 2015.

Today is International Literacy Day, and while we certainly want to celebrate the fact that there are 4 billion literate people in the world today, we must also concede that for far too many, the opportunity to learn to read and write is still a luxury

This month kicks off the International Year of Youth, and the United Nations is definitely looking to hide some worry-lines in celebration. Take the renovation of the iconic UN Headquarters on the East River–the first in 60 years! Now that’s a long-overdue facelift.

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