Millennium goals
World leaders are gathering in New York to talk about progress on eight goals set back in 2000 as Millennium Development Goals to be met by 2015. Those goals include reducing poverty and hunger, promoting universal education and gender equality, and fighting HIV/AIDS. Anchor Lisa Mullins has the story.
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