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Queen contributes to promoting SDGs at annual Social Good Summit

By JT - Sep 28,2015 - Last updated at Sep 28,2015

Her Majesty Queen Rania participates in the 6th Annual Social Good Summit in New York on Sunday (Photo courtesy of Queen Rania office)

AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Sunday took part in a meeting to introduce the new UN-drafted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to the global audience.

“I am Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, and I believe in the power of education to create lasting change,” said the Queen as she read SDG Number 4 at the opening session of the 6th Annual Social Good Summit, in partnership with Project Everyone.

The goal aims to give every child quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Queen Rania highlighted everyone has a right to education saying: “Deprive children of quality education, and you deprive them of the opportunities that can help them break out of the cycle of poverty,” which she defines as “a cycle that traps people in disadvantage”, adding that it is “a cycle that puts girls at risk of violence. And slows the growth of our global economy”.

The SDGs were set after 193 countries arrived at a consensus on the 17 proposed goals which aim  to end poverty and hunger; achieve food security and improved nutrition; ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages; provide inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all; promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all; build resilient infrastructure, reduce inequality within and among countries; and take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, among others.

 

Reading the other SDGs were Helen Clark, administrator of UNDP; Graça Machel, widow of former South African president Nelson Mandela and of Mozambican president Samora Machel; Amina Mohammed, special adviser to the UN secretary general; Karen Quintos, senior VP and chief marketing operator of Dell Inc.; Pete Cashmore, CEO and founder of Mashable; Mo Ibrahim, founder of Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever; along with Ahmed Mohammad, Victoria Beckham, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Adrian Grenier and others.  

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