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 enviornmental sustainability Develop a global partnership for development
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In September of 2000 the largest gathering of world leaders in human history convened for the Millennium Summit at United Nations headquarters in New York. In that pivotal year, representatives from 189 Member States of the United Nations met to reflect on their common destiny. The nations were interconnected as never before, with increased globalization promising faster growth, higher living standards and new opportunities. Yet their citizens’ lives were starkly disparate.  As some States looked ahead to prosperity and global cooperation, many barely had a future, being mired in miserable, unending conditions of poverty, conflict and a degraded environment.  [read more...]

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[A world fit for children]: "We have to stop relying on excuses. The real way to achieve such goals, in my opinion, is just in all of us. Of course donations and governments must help, but... Will it really work if the government makes campaigns and even laws if enterprises in a very-well hidden way pay lower salaries to women, or if big companies use consumerism as a way of living, making richness even less well distributed?" by FaerieGirl [15, Mexico]

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