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In 2000 all the member states of the United Nations pledged to achieve eight goals by 2015. These are the goals.
Currently 1.1 billion people live on less than one dollar a day, and 852 mission are hungry.
Currently 121 million school-aged children do not go to school.
Currently 60 percent of the children out of school are girls.
Currently 11 million children die of preventable diseases every year.
Currently about 500,000 mothers die each year of birth-related complications.
Currently each year 3 million persons die of AIDS, nearly 2 million of tuberculosis, and one million of malaria.
Currently 1.1 billion people lack access to a reliable source of water that is reasonably protected from contamination; 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation. Currently rich countries on average give 0.25 percent of their gross national income to development assistance. The goal is to increase this to 0.7 percent.
This list of the MDGs is a shortened version of the one that appears in What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World, by Sabina Alkire and Edmund Newell. The official site for monitoring progress toward the MDGs is here.
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Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Specifically, the aim is by 2015 to reduce by half the proportion of people whose income in 1990 amounted to less than one dollar a day and reduce by half the proportion of people who were hungry.
Achieve universal primary education. The target is for all children to be able to complete primary school.
Promote gender equality and empower women. The goal is for equal numbers of girls and boys to go to primary and secondary school preferably by 2005 and go on to higher education by 2015.
Reduce child mortality. The aim is to reduce the number of children who die before their fifth birthday by two-thirds by 2015.
Improve maternal health. The target is to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. The goal is to reverse the spread of these diseases by 2015.
Ensure environmental sustainability. The aims are to make drinking water safer and improve the lives of 100 million slum dwellers and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
Develop a global partnership for development. This goal addresses a range of issues in which the developed countries play a particular role in inhibiting poverty or facilitating poverty reduction.
