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In September 2000, the Millennium Declaration was ratified by 189 heads of state at the United Nations Millennium Summit. The Declaration outlines eight broad goals. Within these are eighteen targets - most set for 2015 using 1990 as a benchmark - and forty-eight indicators. These Millennium Development Goals represent a global commitment by all nations who signed the Declaration to reduce poverty and improve lives. The Millennium Development Goals are:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger watch
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education watch
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women watch
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality watch
Goal 5: Improve maternal health watch
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases watch
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability watch
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development watch
"I do not need to describe for you the multiple hardships to which so many of our fellow human beings are subjected, each of which makes it harder to escape from the others: poverty, hunger, disease, oppression, conflict, pollution, depletion of natural resources. Development means enabling people to escape from that vicious circle. Like the struggle for independence, the struggle for development has to be carried on mainly in developing countries and by their people. Its first prerequisites are basic security, the rule of law, and honest, transparent administration - which only national governments can provide. But it is a struggle that concerns the whole world."
Kofi Annan, Former United Nations Secretary General, Lecture to London School of Economics, February 2002.
Partners
'The MDGs in Focus' was made in association with:
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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