Fortunately there is a General Assembly resolution that tells us we can extend the ICPD in 2014 and continue, because there is so much still to do,” Osotimehin said. We don’t have, as we speak, an actual committed position on what the development agenda is going to be after the Millennium Development Goals.” But regardless of what happens in the run-up to 2015 and well into the future, “there have to be more voices from the global South, and many of them should be those of young people,” Osotimehin said. “ Those voices, young or old, should be heard at every level from the national to the regional and international,” he added. It’s a failure of advocacy from the South” that funds for reproductive health can be so easily cut, she said.