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Saturday, March 9, 2013

The UNITED NATIONS wants access to water, sanitation in development agenda

United Nations, New York (Reuters)-the United Nations and all its partners, Thursday (9/2), calling for the international community to prioritize the guarantee of access to water and sanitation for vulnerable citizens in the development agenda post-2015.

The United Nations and its partners insist it will help combat gaps and encourage the durability as well as human rights.

"The future of the Development Agenda should aim at tackling the most pressing challenge of all: the gap in access to basic services in order to realize the people's rights," said UN children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN Entity for Gender equality and the empowerment of women (UN Women), raportur special about human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, the Government of Finland and Water Assistance, in a joint press release.

"That's important, among these basic services, it should be aimed so that everyone has equal access to water, hygiene and health," said the press release as quoted Xinhua--which monitored Between in Jakarta on Friday morning. "Special attention must be given to women and girls, which is not affected by the lack of comparable services."

The joint press release said all countries should take a lesson from the efforts toward the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)--which is scheduled to end in 2015.

The MDGs are a set of eight specific goals universally accepted regarding poverty eradication, education, gender equality, maternal and child health, the stability of the environment, the reduction of HIV/AIDS, and the "Global Partnership for development".

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