{"id":2014,"date":"2015-01-15T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2015-01-15T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:33:32","slug":"crowe-meets-un-official-on-development-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-meets-un-official-on-development-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe meets UN Official on Development Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, met Amina J. Mohammad, a special advisor on post-2015 development planning to the UN\u2019s Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe met Ms. Mohammad as part of an informal Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was great to meet Ms. Mohammad today and discuss the purposed plans for a post-2015 development framework which replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they end this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile progress has been made on reaching the MDGs we still have a long way to go to seriously tackle poverty, inequality, and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI explained to Ms. Mohammad that I believe a post-2015 framework should be rights based, tackle inequality as well poverty, focus on ending discrimination, and increasing efforts to mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome that Ireland is a co-facilitator of these discussions at the UN level and I call on them to use this prestigious role to ensure a post-2015 framework is based on these sustainable development objectives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, met Amina J. Mohammad, a special advisor on post-2015 development planning to the UN\u2019s Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon. Crowe met Ms. Mohammad as part of an informal Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee meeting. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cIt was great to meet Ms. Mohammad today and discuss the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,78,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunger","category-irish-aid","category-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}