Do you remember the United Nations Millennium Development Goals? If not, you are not alone.
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 gesture which, unsurprisingly, amounted to little.
Even if the architects of the project were well-intentioned as they laboured to meet the 2015 deadline, the lack of true international solidarity made their commendable programme simply impossible.
Sadly, whatever positive difference these objectives registered is now quickly vanishing, not because of the COVID-19 pandemic which continues to ravage the world, but because of the haphazard international response to it.
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