With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, we still need to create awareness and empower people to demand that their nations agree to and work towards what was established when the Millennium Development Goals were signed.
The Millennium Development Goals are as follows:
Poverty: Over the years, we've been inundated with the statistics and the pictures of poverty around the world-so much so that many people in both the North and South have come to accept it as an unfortunate but unalterable state of affairs. The truth, however, is that things have changed in recent years. The world today is more prosperous than it ever has been. The technological advances we have seen in recent years have created encouraging new opportunities to improve economies and reduce hunger.Goals for 2015
1.Reduce by half, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day.
2.Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
3.Reduce by half, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
Every human being should have the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately, too many children in the world today grow up without this chance, because they are denied their basic right to even attend primary school. A sustainable end to world poverty as we know it, as well as the path to peace and security, require that citizens in every country are empowered to make positive choices and provide for themselves and their families.
Goal for 2015:
1.Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Poverty has a woman's face. Global prosperity and peace will only be achieved once all the world's people are empowered to order their own lives and provide for themselves and their families. Societies where women are more equal stand a much greater chance of achieving the Millennium Goals by 2015. Every single Goal is directly related to women's rights, and societies were women are not afforded equal rights as men can never achieve development in a sustainable manner.
All of this we really need
Goal for 2015:
1.Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
One of the darkest characteristics of poverty is that is seems to prey on the vulnerable and defenseless. In low-income countries, one out of every 10 children dies before the age of five. In wealthier nations, this number is only one out of 143.Goal for 2015:
1.Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
Many people consider the day their child was born the happiest day in their life. In the world's wealthier countries, that is. In poorer countries, the day a child born is all too often the day its mother dies. The lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy and childbirth in Africa is 1 in 22, while it is 1 in 120 in Asia and 1 in 7,300 in developed countries.
Goals for 2015:
1.Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio.
2.Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health.
Malaria, together with HIV/AIDS and TB, is one of the major public health challenges undermining development in the poorest countries in the world. Malaria kills an African child every 30 seconds. Many children who survive an episode of severe malaria may suffer from learning impairments or brain damage. Pregnant women and their unborn children are also particularly vulnerable to malaria, which is a major cause of prenatal mortality, low birth weight and maternal anaemia.
Goals for 2015
1.Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
2.Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it.
3.Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
Reducing poverty and achieving sustained development must be done in conjunction with a healthy planet. The Millennium Goals recognize that environmental sustainability is part of global economic and social well-being. Unfortunately exploitation of natural resources such as forests, land, water, and fisheries-often by the powerful few-have caused alarming changes in our natural world in recent decades, often harming the most vulnerable people in the world who depend on natural resources for their livelihood.
Goals for 2015:
1.Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources.
2.Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss.
3.Reduce by half, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
4.By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.
The Millennium Goals represent a global partnership for development. The deal makes clear that it is the primary responsibility of poor countries to work towards achieving the first seven Goals. They must do their part 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 rich countries deliver on their end of the bargain with more and more effective aid, more sustainable debt relief and fairer trade rules, well in advance of 2015.
Goals for 2015:
1.Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system. Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally.
2.Address the special needs of the least developed countries. Includes: tariff and quota free access for the least developed countries’ exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction.
3.Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly).
4.Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term.
5.In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
6.In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.
For more information visit:
http://www.iswimwithmarcos.com/millenium-development-goals/
No comments:
Post a Comment