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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2000 »

January 18, 2011  

In the face of increasing levels of global poverty, disease, hunger and inequality, and with the arrival of the new millennium, world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration in September 2000 to fight world poverty and ensure a better life for all by the year 2015. UN member states developed the eight MDGs, in which they confirmed a commitment to:

• reducing extreme poverty by half;
• ensuring every child has access to primary education;
• ending gender discrimination;
• reducing child mortality due to childbirth;
• reducing the maternal mortality rate;
• controlling the spread of deadly diseases such as malaria and HIV/Aids;
• protecting the environment;
• developing a global partnership for development

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