Im recently elected president of the ewan aitken United Nations Association National capital area chapter and im just pleased and tickled frankly to see on an august day maybe because its a cool august 8 what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill on an august 8. And naturally due to the extruder line up of people who are going to be presenting a talking to you today im sure and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe even before five years ago United Nations with the cooperation and certainly of the United States and with many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries duchesses will equally and universally to the critical states of affairs for human rights and for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily, and portly volu
Hill on an august day. That is due to the extraordinary lineup. Five years ago, maybe even before five years ago, United Nations, with the cooperation of the United States and with many countries around the world, began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries but just as well, equally and universally, to the critical rightsf affairs of human bestr development in the equipped countries. Including the United States. Out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all voluntarily, importantly voluntarily, to collaborate on how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years of 2013 and 2030. So already it has been in progress to talk about. The millennium Development Goals that were really quite extraordinarily successful. By focusing across the world the attention of development agencies. But now focusing the attention of almost all l
Cool august day, what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill on an august day. And thats really due to the extraordinary lineup of people presenting and talking to you today, im sure, that brings you here. Five years ago, maybe even before, the United Nations with the cooperation, certainly, of the United States and with many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Development that would apply not only to the least developed countries, but just as well equally and universally to the critical state of affairs for human rights and for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. And out of that conversation came this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to help lead the way for all countries voluntarily. Importantly, voluntarily to collaborate on how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years 20152030. So were just two years into this, and already theres significant progress to be talking ab
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Work for melaghers is all about wit and skill, the skills that she does. Just thinking about her approach to materials, the islity of ideas, and she often able to do that in such a playful way. To me, that makes all of the difference. Our work is attractive not on a caro her work is attractive not merely on a visual level but because it is work that seems to encourage you to join her in the process of inquiry she is on rather than being something confrontational or excluding or exclusive. And i think the way she is able to encourage us to make these connections, through work that is technically incredibly accomplished and visually extraordinarily beautiful and culturally, very, very rich. I find her work fascinating. Narrator Ellen Gallagher burst into the art scene and the early 1990s and caught the attention of curators and collectors alike. Anthony i immediately liked her work in every case. They were fantastic and really powerful and important, and you can see she would be a great