MPs urge PM to end extreme poverty

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New global development goals to end extreme poverty, improve health and education, and promote sustainability must be simple and measurable.

Today the House of Commons International Development Select Committee, which I am a member of, published a new report on post-2015 development goals.

The current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will expire in 2015, and the Prime Minister is co-chairing a UN High Level Panel to consider what should replace them.

You can read the report’s summary below and the full report is available online here.

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I was Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Northfield between 1992 and 2019 and a former Shadow Transport Minister. I now chair Healthwatch in Birmingham and Solihull, and the West Midlands Board of Remembering Srebrenica. I also work as a public affairs consultant. I am an effective community advocate and stakeholder alliance builder with a passion for human rights. I am a trustee of the Balfour Project charity and of Citizens Advice Birmingham, and a former Chair of Medical Aid for Palestinians.

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