Stop Child Poverty In the year 2000, world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit pledged to cut global poverty in half by 2015. We are now closer than ever to that benchmark year—and many countries have yet to follow through on the promise. The Stop Child Poverty campaign has dedicated itself to mobilizing and helping ordinary citizens push their governments to reach the goals. The campaign's site provides a picture of what life is like for children who live in conditions of extreme deprivation. It details the rights of young people under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (beginning with "the right to survival"). And it outlines what you can do today to make a difference for kids on this planet. We have seen the power possible when groups of people speak up, and when they harness the power of the Web to do so. The time is now. As 2007 approaches, there are not that many years left until the deadline. (in Issues and Causes)
