'Leave no one behind': U.N. ups ambition for new development goals

[WorldNews]

By Megan Rowling LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cecylia, a Roma woman, left her home in southern Poland to escape the kind of racism that led to her being so badly beaten by communist police that she lost an unborn child. Like many Roma migrants in London, the cleaner in her mid-50s struggled with a new language to learn, officialdom and a spell of unemployment. "A lot of Roma can't speak English very well, and sometimes they can't help themselves," said Cecylia, who declined to give her full name, fearing recrimination for speaking out.

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