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With less than 500 days to go before the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), The Children’s Project International (TCPI) joins with its international partners, to call upon world leaders to intensify their efforts to accelerate progress to achieve the MDGs before their expiration at the end of next year. During the opening of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly last month, voices from the developing world poignantly reminded the 193-member body of the commitments it made 14 years ago to eradicate extreme poverty and the work that still needs to be done before those commitments are fulfilled.

The Children’s Project International (TCPI) today announced plans to partner with UNICEF to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The partnership will underscore TCPI’s commitment to the recognition of the rights of children throughout the world.

The Children's Project International (TCPI) announced today plans to participate in the UN's Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The conference is TCPI's most recent partnership initiative at a time when the organization has increased its international advocacy profile through special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Special consultative status provides a select group of organizations with access to ECOSOC, one of the 5 principal organs of the United Nations system. The official recognition for TCPI "enables it to actively engage with ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, as well as with the United Nations Secretariat, programmes, funds and agencies,” Andrei Abramov, chief of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ NGO Branch, wrote in a letter to TCPI announcing the organization's new status.