Millennium Development Goals
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were eight international development goals for the year 2015 that had been established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeeded the MDGs in 2016.
All 191 United Nations member states, and at least 22 international organizations, committed to help achieve the following Millennium Development Goals by 2015:
- To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- To achieve universal primary education
- To promote gender equality and empower women
- To reduce child mortality
- To improve maternal health
- To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
- To ensure environmental sustainability
- To develop a global partnership for development
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See also
- 8 (2008), a series of eight short films about the eight MDGs
- Debt relief
- Declaration of Human Duties and Responsibilities
- International development
- Official development assistance (ODA)
- Precaria (country)
- Seoul Development Consensus
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Post-2015 Development Agenda
- Development Cooperation Issues 14px|Wikibooks
- Development Cooperation Stories 14px|Wikibooks
- Development Cooperation Testimonials 14px|Wikibooks
- Sustainable Development Goals
- The true extent of global poverty and hunger: questioning the good news narrative of the Millennium Development Goals
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