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Press Release Key Celebrities, MDG Awards Committee Launch MDG Awards
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Rupani Foundation was a major sponsor of the MDG Awards Luncheon at the United Nations on September 12, 2008 attended by distinguished Luminaires.

Friday, September 12, 2008 - At the United Nations Delegates Room No. 6, the launch announcement of the Millennium Development Goals Awards and its twin event the Humanitad Global Impact Forum took place. Designed to recognize global efforts to achieve the MDGs while galvanizing a groundswell of support for their achievement by the public, these platforms represent a milestone as public-private partnership between UN agencies, NGOs and private foundations, civil society and the for profit- sector.
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Millennium Development Goals Awards Committee Press Conference and Luncheon
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New York, New York - September 12, 2008. Luncheon Speech by Mr. Nasruddin Rupani, Chairman, Rupani Foundation, Houston, Texas

rupani-podium3-mjYour Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has said, “We cannot accomplish the Millennium Development Goals alone.”

Therefore, we must engage governments, civil society, the not-for-profit sector, multilateral development organizations, the public and, especially, businessmen and women and entrepreneurs. We all recognize that a lot is being done, but we need to do much more to accomplish the MDGs by 2015. Yet we must be realistic in our expectations. This means that we acknowledge some fundamental facts:
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The MDG Awards. A Global Campaign to Engage the World
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Rupani Foundation is a proud sponsor of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) Awards.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as formulated by the United Nations in 2000 and agreed upon by every member state, represent a global partnership to impact the challenges facing the world.

Responding to the world's major development issues and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases.
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The United Nations Global Compact’s Growing Sustainable Business Initiative and the Millennium Alliances Portal
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Rupani Foundation collaborates to launch the Millennium Alliance Portal, an innovative program for global development through public-private partnerships.

The GSB initiative grew out of the 2002 UN Global Compact policy dialogue on "business and sustainable development." It was presented and endorsed in a high-level session at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, attended by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown, heads of state including British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, chief executive officers of global companies and representatives from labour, non-governmental organizations and other UN organizations.
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