Photo: Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko speaks at Rotary’s World Polio Day event in Chicago, Illinois on October 24, 2014. Photo courtesy of Rotary International/Alyce Henson
By John Hewko, Special Contributor to the Parliament
General Secretary of Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation
Rotary Club of Kiev, Ukraine
We’ve all heard of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched to much fanfare in New York last September. Yet less well known are theBristol Faith Commitments, adopted just a few weeks earlier, when representatives from twenty four different faith traditions launched 10 year pledges as a response to the SDGs, ranging from poverty, education and the environment, to more particular but related causes, such as green pilgrimage.
The Bristol Faith Commitments should not be ignored for several reasons, and it is notable that Paul Ladd, responsible for planning the post-2015 agenda for the UN Development Programme, was in attendance.
