Civil society voices frustration, anger over broken promises to LDCs

Image via Wikipedia Announcing both hard data and feelings about the lack of progress toward achieving sustainable development and poverty eradication in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), the Civil Society Forum's representatives have said they are not happy at all. “We are angry; we are frustrated,” said Dr. Arjun Karki, chair and spokesperson of the Civil Society Steering Committee, speaking at a press conference on Tuesday when the committee released its report on the LDCs at the Fourth UN Conference on LDCs in İstanbul (May 7-13) outlines an ambitious plan of action to lift the world's 48 LDCs out of the spiral of poverty. “The civil society Global Report provides information and statistics that clearly illustrate how the Brussels Program of Action, drawn up for the third LDC conference in 2001 failed to make a significant dent in the poverty and vulnerability in LDCs,” Karki said.