Some 50 projects of public policy and of civil society actions aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Argentina were presented at a course for promoting the goals, adopted in 2000 by the United Nations. The course, organized by the Pro-UN Association of Argentina, began in August and concluded Nov. 8. “Sociologists and social workers participated, but also anthropologists, dentists, lawyers, police commissaries and academics,” Lucía Alberti, president of the Association, told Tierramérica.

Alberti cited as an example a proposal for a “quality of life” observatory in the municipality of Azul, in Buenos Aires province.

The MDGs are a platform for drastically reducing poverty, hunger and inequality, and promoting sustainable development worldwide, with a deadline of 2015.