The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have the potential to make life better for billions of people in the world's poorest countries. Yet when they were established by world leaders in 2000 they left out one in five of the world's poorest people.
People with disabilities have consistently faced discrimination, which is why 82% of disabled people live below the poverty line and comprise one of the single largest groups of excluded and chronically poor people in the world.
Without including disability in plans for tackling poverty the MDGs stand little chance of success.
