MDGs and the Creative Community.

• Position: Millennium Development Goals - Brief article

The latest project of the Secretary-General's Creative Community Outreach Initiative (CCOI), a documentary film forum called "Envision: Addressing Global Issues through Documentaries", was launched earlier this year in New York. The forum will allow attendees to look through the lens of documentary films at urgent issues like violence against women, extreme poverty, and armed conflict.

The Millennium Development Goals-focused event is the result of collaboration between the non-profit Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and the Outreach Division of the Department of Public Information, which manages the Creative Community Outreach Initiative. CCOI's mission is to highlight...