The Millennium Development Goals report for 2011 is released

The Millennium Development Goals report for 2011 was released on Thursday afternoon.
Launching the findings in Geneva the UN Secretary General Ban-Moon said there have been greet strides made in reaching the goals.

But he added that the most vulnerable were being left behind.

“In the report we try to highlight how important it is to ensure equal access by women and girls to all services especially education and healthcare”, says Francesca Perucci, the lead editor of the report.

She told Lydia O’Kane that the achievement of the MDG’s depends largely on women’s empowerment and achieving gender equality. Listen