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When the United Nations was formed after the devastation of World War II, the international agency quickly developed plans to help ease the disparity in quality of life in rich and poor nations.
Such a struggle is not for the faint of heart, and though the pace of globalization has rapidly changed the world, the grave inequities that continued into the year 2000 prompted the U.N. to set eight goals to cut world poverty in half by 2015.
Nearly two-thirds of the way to that deadline, filmmaker Mira Nair is hoping to prompt a renewed interest in meeting those goals with an ambitious film project, “8,” which had its U.S. premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival last weekend and will have a broad theatrical release on October 24. Ms. Nair is... more
Such a struggle is not for the faint of heart, and though the pace of globalization has rapidly changed the world, the grave inequities that continued into the year 2000 prompted the U.N. to set eight goals to cut world poverty in half by 2015.
Nearly two-thirds of the way to that deadline, filmmaker Mira Nair is hoping to prompt a renewed interest in meeting those goals with an ambitious film project, “8,” which had its U.S. premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival last weekend and will have a broad theatrical release on October 24. Ms. Nair is... more
