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Race Against Time by Stephen Lewis

"I have spent the last four years watching people die." With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 CBC Massey Lectures. Lewis's determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider's perspective on our ongoing failure to help. Lewis recounts how, in 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York introduced eight Millennium Development Goals, which focused on fundamental issues such as education, health, and cutting poverty in half by 2015. In audacious prose, alive with anecdotes ranging from maddening to hilarious to heartbreaking, Lewis shows why and how the international community is falling desperately short of these goals. This edition includes an afterword by Lewis, covering events after the lectures were delivered in fall 2005.

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STEPHEN LEWIS is the former UN Secretary-General's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. His previous roles include Canadian ambassador to the UN, special advisor on Africa to the UN Secretary-General, and deputy executive director of UNICEF. He was named "Canadian of the Year" by Maclean's magazine in 2003 and one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2005.
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ISBN 13 9780887847530
ISBN 10 0887847536
Titel Race Against Time
Autor Stephen Lewis
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Erscheinungsjahr 2006-11-01
Seitenanzahl 208
Preise Winner of IPPY Awards - Essay/Creative Non-Fiction 2006 (United States), Winner of CBA Libris Award - Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2006 (Canada), Short-listed for Trillium Book Award 2006 (Canada), Short-listed for Writers' Trust of Canada Non-Fiction Prize 2005 (Canada)
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