Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Press Releases

NY, 1 October 2002
United Nations Secretary General urges countries to turn Summit committments to action

Webcast

Live Webcast: 10:30am EST, 1st October 2002 - Press Conference: UN Secretary-General presents his first annual report on implementing the Millennium Declaration

Documentation
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Implementation of the Millennium Declaration

Fact Sheet 1: The MDG and the Role of the United Nations

 Fact Sheet 2: Country-by-Country reports

Millennium Declaration
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 Towards Implementation

 Secretary General's Report
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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 five
Improve maternal health Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio

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 loss of environmental resources
 Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
 Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

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 the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota-free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction
 Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States
 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
By the year 2015, all 191 United Nations Member States have pledged to meet the above goals