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These ambitious goals, which included the
eradication of “extreme poverty and hunger”, to
“combating lethal diseases” and “reducing child
mortality worldwide”, proved to be yet another empty
gesture which, unsurprisingly, amounted to
little.
Even if the architects of the project were
well-intentioned as they labored to meet the 2015 deadline,
the lack of true international solidarity made their
commendable program simply impossible.
Sadly, whatever
positive difference that these objectives registered is now
quickly vanishing, not because of the Covid-19 pandemic
which continues
to ravage the world, but because of the selfish and
haphazard international response to it.
Expectedly,
the most vulnerable are the first to suffer. According to a
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