'Accept MDGs as human rights'
A platform of non-government organisations yesterday urged the government to make policies and laws to accept the millennium development goals as human rights, which are set to be achieved by 2015.
The Anti-Poverty Platform, a network of 26 NGOs, emphasised the government's immediate intervention to ensure food security for all and provide pure water and hygienic sanitation facilities in disaster-prone and remote area and to the ultra poor.
At a press conference, the APP also demanded to review all the development goals to ensure gender equity. The conference was organised at National Press Club to inaugurate a six-day countrywide campaign for achieving MDGs.
''We all have to emphasise population control to attain MDGs as the achievement will be useless if we fail to check population growth immediately,'' said Meher Afroz Chumki, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on women and children affairs ministry.
Muhammad Hillaluddin from Ongikar Bangladesh, Kazi Ali Reza from UN Information Center Bangladesh, Farah Kabir from Action Aid Bangladesh and Rokeya Kabir from Bangladesh Nari Pragati Sangha spoke at the conference.
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