I am Standing up in Peru because...

My name is Hector Bejar and I am Standing Up this weekend at the launch of a report on how my country, Peru is doing in achieving the Millennium Development goals on Friday in Lima.  We all want to know how Peru is doing on addressing hunger, poverty, healthcare, literacy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. Progress has been so unequal between the different goals and also between different regions of our country.  This means that the challenge now is to build a integrated social policy and dedicate a greater percentage of the public sector budget to addressing poverty.  We want to see the macro economic plan changed from one that serves the interests of big business and their development to one that addresses the needs of everyone in the country.