united nations millennium declaration goals

United Nations Millennium

Declaration Goals

In 2009,189 nations signedthe United Nations Millennium Declaration

Goals(MDG)

Aimed to freeentire human racefrom ‘want’

UN Development Programme aims to achieve the eight MDG by 2015

Working with organisations such as World Health Organisationand UNAIDS

UN works with World Bank and the International Monetary Fund

Requires supportof richerdeveloped countries

Providing aid, trade, debt relief and investment

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Achieve universal primary education

Promote gender equality and empower women

Reduce child mortality

Improve Maternal Health

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases

Ensure environmental sustainability

Develop global partnerships for development

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

1.2 billion peoplesurvive on less than$1 a day, 800 millionare under-nourished

and 153 millionchildren under five

years areunderweight.

Achieve universal primary education

114 million childrenof primary school agedo not go to school,

depriving one inevery five children of

access to basiceducation.

Promote gender equality and empower women

Women play a pivotalrole in development –business, agriculture,

family, communitywork. More women are

poor, illiterate andsuffer human rights

abuses

Reduce child mortality

1,200 children die everyhour, before their fifth

birthday. 99% occur in poorcountries, mainly from

preventable or treatableillnesses.

Improve mental health

500,000 women diein pregnancy or

childbirth annually.In developing

countries, the risk ofdying in childbirth is

one in 48

Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases

HIV/AIDS is theleading cause of

death in sub-SaharanAfrica and number

four worldwide.

Ensure environmental sustainability

More than one billionpeople do not have

access to safe drinkingwater and two billionpeople lack access tosanitation services.

Develop global partnerships for development

The private sector willestablish business

programmes that will target grassroots communities.

Corporations will extend theservices of their employees,

free of charge, to communitydevelopment.

What do these Millennium Goals mean?