About the Goals [The Millennium Development Goals]
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article32406
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2005 Eastertide
- Issue
- 117
- Page
- 17
- Notes
- "The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the worlds time-bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions -- income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion -- while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. They are also basic human rights -- the rights of each person on the planet to health, edict, shelter, and security".
- The eight goals are: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education. 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.
- Subjects
- Millennium Development Goals
- United Nations - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Human rights - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Location
- General Synod Archives