Millennium Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals are eight International development goals that the members of United Nations and at least 23 international organizations agreed toachieve by the year 2015.

Goals.
1. Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
2. Achieving universal Primary education
3. Promoting gender equality and empowering women.
4. Reducingchild mortality rates
5. Improving maternal Health
6. Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensuring environmental sustainability
8. Developing a global partnership fordevelopment


Each goal has specific targets that are:

• Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger:
1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 aday
2. Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
3. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger• Achieving universal Primary education
1. Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling


•Promoting gender equality and empowering women.
1. Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education,
Preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education, no later than 2015• Reducing child mortality rates
1. Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the mortality rate of children under five


• Improving maternal Health
1. Achieve, by 2015,universal access to reproductive health
2. Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio


• Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
1. Haltand begin to reverse, by 2015, the spread of HIV/AIDS
2. Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
3. Halt and begin to reverse, by...