Back in August I met with the minister for international development, Lynne Featherstone, writes Ade Adepitan. She told me about the UN’s millennium development goals and how they were changing the world. They targeted many of the world’s major issues, and the top line was ‘Leave nobody behind’.
Surprisingly, the goals didn’t include anything on disability. The MDGs are due for reassessment in 2015, and Lynne’s aim is to lobby the UN to add disability rights to the goals when they’re re-laun...
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