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From around the world and around the web this week:

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit takes place, with world leaders converging on New York. The Guardian has launched a new Global Development web site that is tracking progress on the MDGs and sharing news from the Summit. Highlights include “an incomprehensible speech” from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Amnesty International’s maternal death clock in Times Square, and musings on whether “these are the wrong people to be handling attempts to bring about world peace.” Read more on the site’s new “Poverty Matters” blog.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/sep/21/millennium-development-goals-live-updates

 

The Catholic Church in Sudan has launched a nationwide campaign to pray for peace ahead of the scheduled referendum in January. “The least we can do is pray,” Sister Cecilia Sierra Salcido, a Mexican nun.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iSjS4WJnKoXhnTlxeG-8eDHdiFOgD9ICAD5O3

 

Still on Sudan, for those who missed it, former U.S senator and RI board member, John Danforth, co-wrote an op-ed piece, with Retired Lieutenant General Lazaro Sumbeiywo, for The Boston Globe. They urge support for the people of south Sudan after January’s historic referendum.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/18/standing_firm_for_the_people_of_south_sudan/

  

Lastly, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting hosts moving photographs and reporting by Marcus Bleasdale and Joe Bavier that highlight newly abandoned homes in northeastern DR Congo. http://pulitzercenter.org/slideshows/images-perfect-place-hell-part-ii