Banderas UN Goodwill Ambassador to help the fight against poverty. Antonio is now an advocate for the poor and will set his sights on the Millennium Development Goals.
The goals are a set of eight globally agreed targets that seek to halve world poverty by 2015. "Poverty robs us of our potential as a people, preventing us from being all that we can be," Banderas said in a statement.
"This is why it is so important to mobilize all of our efforts to defeat it, especially if today we have the knowledge, the tools and the resources to do it."Spanish Film Actor, Director, Producer and Singer.
Antonio Banderas is a Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer. He began his acting career at age 19 with a series of films by director Pedro Almodovar.
He then appeared in high-profile Hollywood films including "Assassins," "Evita," "Interview with the Vampire," "Philadelphia," "Desperado," "The Mask of Zorro," "Spy Kids" and the "Shrek" sequels.
The Goodwill ambassador took his mother's surname as his stage name. He initially wanted to play football professionally, but his dream ended when he broke his foot at age 14. As a young man, he traveled to Madrid, in order to make a career in the Spanish film industry. United Nations Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals. These goals have been agreed by all 192 UN member states to achieve by the year 2015. They include reducing extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development.
Progress towards reaching the goals has been uneven. Some countries have achieved many of the goals while others are not on track to realize any. The major countries that have been achieving their goals include China and India due to many factors of population and economic development.
International development or global development is a concept that lacks a universally accepted definition. However, it is most used in a holistic and multi-disciplinary context of human development. It is the development of greater quality of life for humans.
It encompasses foreign aid, governance, healthcare, education, gender equality, disaster preparedness, infrastructure, economics, human rights, environment and issues associated with these. International Development is specifically composed of institutions and policies that arose after the Second World War. These institutions focus on alleviating poverty and improving living conditions in Third World decolonized countries.
International development is related to the concept of international aid, disaster relief and humanitarian aid. However, they are most often short term fixes, they are not necessarily long-term solutions. International development, on the other hand, seeks to implement long-term solutions to problems, which is achieved by helping developing countries create the necessary capacity needed to provide such sustainable solutions to their problems.