What they are
At the Millennium Summit in September 2000 the
largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the UN
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 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.
The Goals:
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