World Millennium development goals (UN)

These are the Millennium Development Goals that all 189 member states of the United Nations have pledged to meet by 2015:

Curtail extreme poverty and hunger: Cut by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day;

Achieve universal primary education: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling;

Promote gender equality and empower women: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education – preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015;

Reduce child mortality: Reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under the age of five;

Improve maternal health: Reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate;

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS: halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases;

Ensure environmental sustainability: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse the loss of environmental resources; reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water; achieve significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020;

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Develop a global partnership for development:
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 low-income countries' special needs (includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for the heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction);
Address the special needs of land-locked and small island developing countries;
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).