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Text Box:   What did IYCS do in 2005 regarding MDGs? Click here to read the one Page summary       Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with IYCS & UN Millennium Campaign     IYCS Global Campaign 'Fight Poverty-Build Peace'                                              Text Box: What is Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)   When 189 Heads of State and government from the North and South, as representatives of their citizens, signed onto the Millennium Declaration at the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, there was a palpable sense of urgency. Urgency to "free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty, to which more than a billion of them are currently subjected."   Here, world leaders from rich and poor countries alike committed themselves--at the highest political level--to a set of eight time-bound targets that, when achieved, will end extreme poverty worldwide by 2015. Goals 1 through 7 commit them to raise the poor out of poverty and hunger, get every child into school, empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, and ensure environmental sustainability. Goal 8 explicitly recognizes that eradicating poverty worldwide can be achieved only through a global partnership for development. This global deal makes clear that it is the primary responsibility of poor countries to ensure greater accountability to citizens and efficient use of resources. But for poor countries to achieve the first seven goals, it is absolutely critical that wealthier countries deliver on their end of the bargain--more and more effective aid, more sustainable debt relief and fairer trade rules--well in advance of 2015.    8Goals Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education (Statement) Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women Goal 4. Reduce child mortality Goal 5. Improve maternal health Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development                                  

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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