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Feb 19, 2018 · The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 goals that UN Member States have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000, commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women.
Pioneering efforts have led to profound achievements including: A considerable reduction in extreme poverty over the last 25 years. In 1990, nearly 50 percent of the population in developing nations lived on less than $1.25 a day. As of 2015, that proportion has dropped to 14 percent.
The report presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) determining the areas where progress has been made and those that are lagging behind. It pinpoints the areas where accelerated efforts are needed to meet the MDGs by 2015.
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target...
In the United Nations, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 created following the Millennium Summit, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
Across eight clear goals, the MDGs include 21 time bound targets to measure progress in poverty reduction and hunger as well as improvements in health, education, living conditions, environmental...
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demand nothing short of a transformation of the financial, economic and political systems that govern our societies today to guarantee the human...
