Actress Dia Mirza, who is also a producer, eco-investor and the UN Secretary-General’s Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals, has joined a convening of policymakers and leaders from around the world at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) - SDG Summit in New York. 

While attending the high-level convening, Dia says, "It is time to personalise the Sustainable Development Goals, which means to help individuals understand that the SDGs are not just for Govts, policymakers and industries to make their own. The SDGs have to become personal to each of us. Individuals have the extraordinary power to fulfil the promise of a healthy, progressive and peaceful world for everyone, everywhere. What is missing in achieving the Sustainable Development goals is the political will and what enables that is civil society and industries. We need to demand accountability from our political class. The intervention needed is to ensure that we make the SDGs central to the understanding that if a political representative in any part of India or the world is not aligned and committed to the SDGs and making it a part of their manifesto then don't vote for that person."