Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger


Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger


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Brochure: Why do the Millennium Development Goals matter? >>

Implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration - Report of the Secretary-General >>

Press release: Secretary-General calls for 'unity of purpose around a common security agenda' >>

Human Development Report 2003 >>


Press Releases
and News Stories

8 September 2003 - AIM OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS IS TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO LIVE IN DIGNITY, SAFETY, GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TELLS NGO CONFERENCE  
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Webcast

Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, discusses his Report on the Implementation of the Millennium Declaration 2003 [Webcast: Archived Video]


Documentation
(PDF format)

Implementation of the Millennium Declaration

Fact Sheet 1: The MDG and the Role of the United Nations

Fact Sheet 2: Country-by-Country reports


How are we doing? (Graphs)

Goal 1 | Goal 1/2

Goal 3/4 | Goal 5/6

Goal 7 | Goal 8


Statistics on the Achievement of the Millennium Goals

Secretary General's Follow-up report

Road map towards the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Declaration [Report of the Secretary-General]


Background

Millennium Declaration
(PDF | HTML)

Towards Implementation

Secretary General's Report
(PDF | HTML)


Achieve universal primary education

Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling


Promote gender equality and empower women

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

Reduce child mortality

Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

Improve maternal health

Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio


Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases


Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases


Ensure environmental sustainability


Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020


Develop a global partnership for development

Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and internationally
Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures to make debt sustainable in the long term
In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth
In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies—especially information and communications technologies

 

 

 

 


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