Taking a Bite Out of the Millennium Development Goals
We Can END Poverty 2015
Jul 6, 2010 4:45 PM ET
The Acacia Group - Socially Responsible Leadership
The first of a series of blogs on the MDGs and how they inform CSR, community development, and leadership and learning.
With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs], UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20 – 22 September 2010 to accelerate progress towards the MDGs’ – The Call to action on the UN Website for the MDGs The MDGs – adopted in 2000 as the United Nations Millennium Declaration – were the culmination of a decade of UN conferences and summits and demonstrated a global commitment to reduce extreme poverty. A series of time bound targets were established with a deadline of 2015 and the MDGs became eight simple statements with the potential to change the world:-
End Poverty and Hunger (eradicate extreme poverty and hunger)
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Universal Education (achieve universal primary education)
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Gender Equality (promote gender equality and empower women)
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Child Health (reduce child mortality)
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Maternal Health (improve maternal health)
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Combat HIV/AIDs (combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other Diseases)
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Environmental Sustainability (ensure environmental sustainability)
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Global Partnership (develop a global partnership for development)