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This page summarizes the goals established by the United Nations in 2000. The full text is accessible here.

In September 2000, building upon a decade of major United Nations conferences and summits, world leaders came together at United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt theUnited Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets - with a deadline of 2015 - that have become known as the Millennium Development Goals.

The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people. In 2005, the independent advisory body headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, presented its final recommendations to the Secretary-General in a synthesis volume “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals.”
The goals are as follows:
  1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
    TARGETS: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day, Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people, Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
  2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
    TARGET: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
  3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
    TARGET Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education, no later than 2015
  4. Reduce Child Mortality
    TARGET: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the mortality rate of children under five
  5. Improve Maternal Health
    TARGETS: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio, Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
  6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
    TARGETS: Halt and begin to reverse, by 2015, the spread of HIV/AIDS, Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it, Halt and begin to reverse, by 2015, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
  7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
    TARGETS: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources, Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss, Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, Achieve, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
  8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development
    TARGETS: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system, Address the special needs of least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states, Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt, In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries, In cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially ICTs


Full text of UN Millennium Declaration in 2000


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