Contents
Foreword
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Preface
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KEY MESSAGES
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1| What are the consultations telling us?
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The story so far: unprecedented engagement in shaping the post-2015 agenda Building on the MDGs and the Millennium Declaration A sense of injustice at deep inequalities and insecurities permeates all the consultations A strong call for an expanded agenda A new agenda: broad, transformational and universal
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2| One Million Voices from Around the World
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Diverse stakeholders and methods of outreach Voices from Sub-Saharan Africa Voices from Latin America and the Caribbean Voices from Asia and the Pacific Voices from Arab States, the Middle East and Northern Africa Voices from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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3| A Sustainable Development Agenda Education Health Water Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition Energy Population Dynamics Growth and Employment Environmental Sustainability Governance Conflict, Violence and Disaster Addressing Inequalities
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Annexes
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Annex 1: Process description of national consultations Annex 2: Process description of thematic consultations Annex 3: The United Nations Development Group
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A Million Voices: The World We Want | A Sustain able Fu t ure wit h Digni t y fo r A l l vii