UNICEF said Executive Director Anthony Lake joined world leaders at a meeting hosted by the Government of Japan “to discuss how focusing investment on the most vulnerable can improve human security and accelerate global progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals.” A Plenary session of the meeting “discussed the disturbing evidence that disparities between the richest and poorest children have widened, even as the world has made progress since the 2000 Millennium Declaration.”  Director Lake said, “Progress, measured by national averages, can conceal huge local disparities, and statistical success can mask moral failure. We need to come together as a global community and fully commit ourselves to reaching the hardest to reach…With the 2015 deadline for achieving the MDGs fast approaching, we must find new ways to do more with the resources we have, achieving not only more money for development, but also more development for the money.”

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