The United Nations Millennium Declaration was signed on September 8, 2000 by all 191 UN member states, agreeing to try to achieve Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the end of the year 2015. [1, 2]
The Eight Millennium Development Goals were to:
- eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
- achieve universal primary education;
- promote gender equality and empower women;
- reduce child mortality;
- improve maternal health;
- combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases;
- ensure environmental sustainability; and
- develop a global partnership for development.
“The MDGs are inter-dependent; all the MDG influence health, and health influences all the MDGs”.
UN released an assessment report in 2012 which revealed “the poorest and those disadvantaged because of gender, age, disability or ethnicity are often bypassed.” The follow up UN agenda for 2030 focus not only on edadicating “extreme poverty” which it didn’t achive, but to eradicate ALL poverty.