By the
year 2015, all 191 United Nations Member States have pledged to meet these
goals:
The Goals and Implementation
1.
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
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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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2.
Achieve universal primary education
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Ensure
that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.
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3.
Promote gender equality and empower women
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Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary
education preferably by 2005, and at all levels
by 2015.
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4.
Reduce child mortality
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Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children
under five.
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5.
Improve maternal health
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Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality
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6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
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Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and
other major diseases.
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7.
Ensure environmental sustainability
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Integrate the principles of
sustainable development into country policies and programs; 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.
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8. Develop a global partnership for development
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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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