What are the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)?
At the Millennium summit in September 2000, UN Member States agreed to the following eight goals to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives by 2015: • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: is to halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger. • Achieve universal primary education: ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school. • Promote gender equality and empower women: eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education for all levels. • Reduce child mortality: reduce by 2/3 the mortality rate among children under five. • Improve maternal health: reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth. • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases: halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. • Ensure environmental sustainability: halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water. • Develop a global partnership for developmen
