Millennium+Development+Goals

Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the world's time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions--income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion--while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. They are also basic human rights--the rights of each person on the planet to health, education, shelter, and security as pledged in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Millennium Declaration. The target for meeting the MDGs is 2015.


 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/01mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 1
 * Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty** ||
 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/02mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 2
 * Achieve Universal Primary Education** ||
 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/03mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 3
 * Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women** ||
 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/04mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 4
 * Reduce Child Mortality** ||
 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/05mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 5
 * Improve Maternal Health** ||
 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/06mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 6
 * Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases** ||
 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/07mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 7
 * Ensure Environmental Sustainability** ||
 * < [[image:http://mp.convio.net/design2/im/goals/08mdg_goal.gif width="54" height="55"]] ||< Goal 8
 * Develop a Global Partnership for Development** ||

Sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of crisis and continues to fall short of most MDGs as a result of rising extreme poverty and food insecurity, stunningly high child and maternal mortality, and sprawling slums. Asia is the region making the most rapid progress, but hundreds of millions of people remain in extreme poverty, and even fast-growing Asian countries are failing to achieve some of the MDGs. Other regions have mixed records, notably Latin America, the transition economies, and the Middle East and North Africa. These regions are making slow progress on some of the MDGs, with persistent inequalities undermining progress on others.

For more information on the Millennium Development Goals, and the specific targets associated with each goal, please visit the [|UN Millennium Project]web site.