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What
are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)?
At the United Nations Millennium Summit held in
September 2000, 189 member countries, with 147 head-of-state level
delegates in attendance, adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration,
a common goal set for the international community of the 21st century.
This Millennium Declaration covered various issues such as peace and
security, development and poverty, environmental issues, human rights
and good governance, and particular demands shared by the Africans,
and clarified the directions and roles of the United Nations in the
21st century. The United Nations Millennium Declaration was then integrated
with various resolutions with international developmental objectives
adopted at major international conferences and summit meetings in
the 1990s as a basic framework: that is the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs).
What are the 8 goals of the MDGs?
The following 8 goals are not necessarily new to
us. However, setting such goals is epoch-making in that the international
community showed its commitment, with stated dead-lines and aimed
figures, in resolving various impending issues in terms of human development
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| Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) : 8 goals |
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Goal
1 Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
TARGET
1
TARGET 2
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Reduce by half the proportion
of people living on less than a dollar a day by 2015.
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffers from hunger
by 2015.
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Goal 2 Achieve Universal
Primary Education
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Ensure that all boys
and girls complete a full course of primary schooling by 2015. |
Goal 3 Promote Gender
Equality and Empower Women
TARGET
4
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Eliminate gender disparity
in primary and secondary education by 2005 and at all levels
by 2015.
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Goal 4 Reduce Child Mortality
TARGET
5
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Reduce by two-thirds
the mortality rate among children under five by 2015 compared
to 1990.
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Goal 5 Improve Maternal
Health
TARGET
6
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Reduce by three-quarters
the maternal mortality ratio by 2015 compared to 1990.
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Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS,
Malaria and Other Diseases
TARGET
7
TARGET 8
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Halt and begin to reverse
the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other
major diseases by 2015.
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Goal 7 Ensure Environmental
Sustainability
TARGET
9
TARGET 10
TARGET 11
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Integrate the principles
of sustainable development into country policies and programs;
reverse loss of environmental resources.
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water by 2015.
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million
slum dwellers by 2020.
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Goal 8 Develop a Global
Partnership for Development
TARGET
12
TARGET 13
TARGET 14
TARGET 15
TARGET 16
TARGET 17
TARGET 18 |
Develop further an open
trading and financial system that is rule-based,
predictable and non-discriminatory.
Address the least developed countries' special needs. This includes
tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt
relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of
official bilateral debt; and more generous official
development assistance for countries committed to poverty
reduction.
Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing
States
(based on the programme for action for small island developing
countries (Barbados Programme) and
the decision of the 22nd UN General Assembly).
Deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt problems
through national and international measures to make debt sustainable
in the long term.
In cooperation with the developing countries, develop and implement
strategies to offer decent and productive work for youth.
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access
to affordable essential drugs
in developing countries.
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits
of new technologies - especially information and communication
technologies. |
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