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~UN Millenium Development Goals

UN Millennium Development Goals

By 2015 all 189 UN Member States have pledged to:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

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

2. Achieve universal primary education
• Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling

3. Promote gender equality and empower women
• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

4. Reduce child mortality
• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five

5. Improve maternal health
• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality rate

6. 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

7. Ensure environmental sustainability
• Integrate the principals of sustainable development into country policies; 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

8. Develop a global partnership for development

Hope for the Nations supports the Millennium Development Goals and is already working in many of the identified areas around the world.

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