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This is the Association for Women in
Development's (AWID) comment on the report
released by the Secretary General of the
United Nations entitled "A life of dignity
for all: Accelerating progress towards the
Millennium Development Goals and advancing
the United Nations development agenda
beyond 2015". The AWID is generally
supportive of the report and applauds its
emphasis on integrating human rights into
the post 2015 development agenda. They
also recognize that the report's contents
extend beyond the goal of eradicating
extreme poverty by providing a more
holistic view of the root causes of
poverty and the multiple and intersecting
forms of discrimination that perpetuate
and hamper efforts to break the cycles of
marginalization and inequality. However,
the AWID calls for more ambitious reforms
in areas such as the global financial
architecture, models of production and
consumption, and global governance. The
AWID argues that these changes will help
the post-2015 development agenda to align
more closely with human rights
commitments.