Salil Shetty, Director of the United Nations Millennium Campaign to cut poverty worldwide, will be at the Judge Business School tonight (3 May) to launch a speaker series jointly organised by a University of Cambridge student society and the UN Millennium Campaign.

Cambridge University Student Alliances is a new student society which believes that the Millennium Development Goals contained in the Millennium Declaration signed in September 2000 by 189 world leaders have a crucial part to play in reducing poverty, as well as promoting growth in the developing world. It is the only student society in the world to have a partnership with the UN Millennium Campaign.

By signing the Millennium Declaration, world leaders pledged to halve poverty worldwide by 2015. The eight Millennium Development Goals focus on reducing poverty, illiteracy, inequality and disease in poor countries. Freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility are at their heart and they are mutually interrelated, with progress on one front aiding achievement of the other goals.

CU Student Alliances aims to support microfinance and low-cost technology projects in partnership with universities and non-governmental organisations in developing countries. It also plans to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals among students worldwide through the speaker series to be launched tonight by Salil Shetty.

Mr Shetty's talk, 'Millennium Development Goals 2015 – Can we really make poverty history?', will take place at 6pm this evening at the Judge Business School on Trumpington Street in Cambridge. The event is open to the public.

For more information, please contact info@cualliances.org.

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