The Millennium Development Goals: A Global Effort to Reduce Poverty
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the eight international development goals or targets that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000 for reducing global poverty. All 189 United Nations member states at the time (there are 193 currently), and at least 23 international organizations, committed to helping achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Each goal has specific targets, and dates for achieving the targets.
The MDGs ranged from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education. Nowadays, the UN is working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, in order to fight inequalities.
Inequality has many different dimensions, including race, gender, geography and economy, which rarely work in isolation. Some examples are the concentration of financial resources and wealth in the hands of a few, which can affect political, social and cultural processes to the detriment of the most vulnerable.
