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| Tessa Jowell leads UN call for new early years goals for children worldwide | Tessa Jowell leads UN call for new early years goals for children worldwide |
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| World leaders must place early years development for children at the centre of the next generation of international development goals to avoid preventable deaths and children being born stunted, Dame Tessa Jowell has declared. | World leaders must place early years development for children at the centre of the next generation of international development goals to avoid preventable deaths and children being born stunted, Dame Tessa Jowell has declared. |
| The former Labour cabinet minister, who played a key role in organising the London Olympics, presented a cross-party petition stressing the importance of early childhood development to the United Nations in New York on Monday. | |
| Jowell made the presentation of the petition, which has 11,000 signatures from supporters in 170 countries, to the UN's 12th session of the open working group on sustainable development goals. This is drawing up the successors to the eight millennium development goals which expire next year. | Jowell made the presentation of the petition, which has 11,000 signatures from supporters in 170 countries, to the UN's 12th session of the open working group on sustainable development goals. This is drawing up the successors to the eight millennium development goals which expire next year. |
| The former minister said that 165 million children under the age of five were stunted, while 6.6 million children dies before their fifth birthday. A further 57 million children miss out on the chance to go to school. | |
| Jowell, one of the architects of the Sure Start system of early years provision in Britain, said there were parallels with the developing world. The former minister, who visited Malawi with Sightsavers last year, said: "I was struck by the parallels between conversations I had with mothers in inner-city London and mothers whose playgroups were in a rural shack in Malawi." | Jowell, one of the architects of the Sure Start system of early years provision in Britain, said there were parallels with the developing world. The former minister, who visited Malawi with Sightsavers last year, said: "I was struck by the parallels between conversations I had with mothers in inner-city London and mothers whose playgroups were in a rural shack in Malawi." |
| On the goals in her petition, Jowell said: "This call for action is supported by incontrovertible evidence about how the opportunities of children in early childhood can be cherished and realised. We know how to prevent children being stunted; we know how to prevent mothers dying in childbirth through the absence of trained obstetrics staff; we know how to prevent the death of 3 million babies in the first month of life. | On the goals in her petition, Jowell said: "This call for action is supported by incontrovertible evidence about how the opportunities of children in early childhood can be cherished and realised. We know how to prevent children being stunted; we know how to prevent mothers dying in childbirth through the absence of trained obstetrics staff; we know how to prevent the death of 3 million babies in the first month of life. |
| "There is a great prize to be won, and global support for our petition to the UN for the inclusion of early childhood development in the post-2015 framework is evidence that the will to achieve this exists. The humanitarian argument and the interests of hundreds of millions of children and their parents around the world are compelling in themselves, but there is also an additional economic argument about the future of Africa and all developing countries." | "There is a great prize to be won, and global support for our petition to the UN for the inclusion of early childhood development in the post-2015 framework is evidence that the will to achieve this exists. The humanitarian argument and the interests of hundreds of millions of children and their parents around the world are compelling in themselves, but there is also an additional economic argument about the future of Africa and all developing countries." |
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