Summary Nations are falling short in meeting some of the key anti-poverty targets set for 2015.
GENEVA (AP) The U.N. secretary-general says that nations are falling short in meeting some of the key anti-poverty targets set for 2015.
Ban Ki-moon is calling on nations to step up help in making primary education universal, ensure more women survive childbirth and have more children live past the age of 5.
Ban says in a new report Monday at the start of a U.N. Economic and Social Council monthlong session that nations already met some U.N. targets agreed in 2000 such as halving the proportion of people who live in extreme poverty and who lack access to safe drinking water.
However, the council s president, Colombia s ambassador at the U.N., Nestor Osorio Londono, said 1 billion people still live in "extreme poverty."
