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The Millennium Development Goals

+Purpose of the United NationsMaintain international peace and security

Maintain friendly relations among nations

Cooperate in solving international problems and promoting respect for human rights

To be a center for harmonizing actions of nations

+How does it do that?

Provides the means to resolve international conflicts

Formulate policies on matters affecting a range of countries

Opportunity to balance global interdependence and national interests when addressing international problems

Create mechanisms to achieve social progress and development

+ MDG #1 – Eradicating Poverty and Hunger

By 2015, reduce the proportion of people living on less than $1 a day by half

By 2013, reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half

Assist people who cannot fulfill their basic needs such as food, water, clothing, and shelter Poor harvest – dry landscape and harsh climate

prevents crops from growing Shortage of food Affordability is an issue

+MDG #1 – Continued…

Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

+Goal #2 - Achieve Universal

Primary Education

Ensure a full course of primary schooling for all boys and girls by 2015

+Goal #3 – Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, and at all levels of education no later than 2015.

+Goal # 4 - Reduce the Mortality

Rate by two-thirds

Lower the number of children dying while they are very young

Disease – living in environments where there is not protection from germs such as breathing in unhealthy air

Malnutrition – lack of nutrients because of poor diet

+Goal #5 – Reduce the maternal mortality ratio

Achieve access to reproductive healthHelping mother get the opportunity to see a doctor when they are pregnant

Regular check-upsProving them with medication

+Goal #6 – Stop the spread of

HIV/AIDs

Allowing people to get treatment

Lowering the cost of medication

Reverse the incidence of HIV/AIDs and other diseases

+Goal #7 – Integrate

principles of sustainable development

Reverse the loss of environmental resources

Reduce the loss of biodiversity

Provide people with sustainable access t safe drinking water and basic sanitation

Significant improvement in the lives of those people living in slums

+Goal # 8 – An approach

to development Address special needs of least developed countries

Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries

Deal with the debt problems of developing countries

Partner with the private sector to make new technologies and information available