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WHO fact sheet on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) providing key facts and information on progress on the eight goals and WHO response.
The Millennium Development Goals were a UN initiative with a time span from 2000 to 2015. In the United Nations, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 created following the Millennium Summit, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
The following are the eight Millennium Development Goals: 1. to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger; 2. to achieve global primary education; 3. to empower women and promote gender equality; 4. to reduce child mortality; 5. to promote maternal health; 6. to fight malaria, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases;
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date...
In 2000, the Millennium Declaration identified fundamental values essential to international relations (A/RES/55/2). The Millennium Development Goals set targets for realizing these values...
Across eight clear goals, the MDGs include 21 time bound targets to measure progress in poverty reduction and hunger as well as improvements in health, education, living conditions, environmental...
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history and will serve as the jumping-off point for the new sustainable development agenda to be adopted this year.
At the beginning of the new millennium, world leaders gathered at the United Nations to shape a broad vision to fight poverty in its many dimensions. That vision, which was translated into eight...
an inspiring framework of eight goals and, then, into wide-ranging practical steps that have enabled people across the world to improve their lives and their future
The eight Millennium Development Goals are as follows: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by bringing about full employment for all people and by halving the number of those who suffer from hunger and whose income is below $1.25 per day.