![]() Millennium Development Goals 1. 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 2. Achieve universal primary education + Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling 3. Promote gender equality and empower women + Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 4. Reduce child mortality + Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five 5. Improve maternal health + Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio 6. 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 7. 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 8. 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 Episcopal Relief and Development ONE Episcopalian Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation United Nations ![]() this
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