GOAL 1: ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER
Extreme poverty remains a daily reality for more than 1 billion people who subsist on less than $1 a day. Hunger and malnutrition are almost equally pervasive: more than 800 million people have too little to eat to meet their daily energy needs. For young children, the lack of food can be perilous since it retards their physical and mental development and threatens their very survivial. More than a quarter of children under age 5 in developing countries are malnourished.
Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
GOAL 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION
Education gives people choices regarding the kind of lives they wish to lead. It enables them to express themselves with confidence in their personal relationships, in the community and at work. But for more than 115 million children of primary school age who are out of school, this human right is being denied. These are mostly children from poor households, whose mothers often have no formal education either.
Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
GOAL 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN
Gender equality is a human right and at the heart of achieving the Millennium Development Goals. It is a prerequisite to overcoming hunger, poverty and disease. This means equality at all levels of education and in all areas of work, equal control over resources and equal representation in public and political life.
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015
- Gender Equality and the MDGs A new website from the UN Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, the Multilateral Development Bank working group and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
- State of the World Population 2005 This report for the United National Population Fund calls upon world leaders to fulfill promises made to the world’s women and young people in order to meet poverty reduction goals agreed to at the 2000 Millennium Summit.
- UNIFEM: Progress of the World's Women 2005 UNIFEM’s flagship publication makes the case for more focus on women’s informal employment as a key way to reduce poverty and strengthening women’s economic security.
- UN CyberSchoolbus on MDG Three (Educational Resource)
GOAL 4: REDUCE CHILD MORTALITY
The death of a child is a tragic loss. Yet, every year, almost 11 million children die - that is, 30,000 children a day - before their fifth birthday. Most of these children live in developing countires and die from a disease or a combination of diseases that can be prevented or treated by existing inexpensive means. Sometimes, the cause is as simple as a lack of antibiotics for treating pneumonia or of oral rehydration salts for diarrhoea. Malnutrition contributes to over half these deaths.
Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
GOAL 5: IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH
Giving birth should be a time of joy. But for more than half a million women each year, precancy and childbirth end in death. Twenty times as many women suffer serious injuries or disabilities, which, if untreated, can cause life-long pain and humiliation. A mother's death can be particularly devestrating to the children left behind, who are more apt to fall into poverty and to become the objects of exploitation.
Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
GOAL 6: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA & OTHER DISEASES
In the 25 years since it was first reported, AIDS has become the leading cause of premature death in sub-Saharan Africa and the fourth largest killer worldwide. More than 20 million people have died around the world since the epidemic began. And by the end of 2004, an estimated 39 million people were living with HIV. In addition to the incalculable human suffering that AIDS has wrought, the epidemic has reversed decades of development progress in the worst-affected countries.
Target 7: Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS
Target 8: Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
GOAL7: ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
GOAL 8: DEVELOP A GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT
