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As members of an international congregation, we recognize our obligation and opportunities to develop a world vision and a sense of global responsibility.”
You Are Sent, C 26, Constitution of the School Sisters of Notre Dame

Poverty, hunger, disease, and environmental degradation affect hundreds of millions of people and kill a child every three seconds. But there is a plan to change all that. In September 2000, the heads of government of 189 countries signed the United Nations Millennium Declaration and committed the nations of the world to an agenda for action designed to establish a world free from want, a world free from fear, a world where all people are free to live in dignity.

That agenda is articulated in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight measurable, time-bound objectives aimed at combating poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease, environmental degradation, discrimination against women, and establishing human rights, good governance, and democracy.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) commit countries to join together to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and to develop real partnerships for development—partnerships which require rich nations to relieve debt, increase aid, and give poor countries fair access to their markets and technology, and in turn require the poorer countries of the world to end corruption and implement transparent sustainable development plans.

The Eight Millennium Development Goals

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Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

bulletTarget 1: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day
bulletTarget 2: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education

bulletTarget 3: Ensure that children everywhere, boys and girls
alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary
schooling

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

bulletTarget 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

Goal 4. Reduce child mortality

bulletTarget 5: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the
 under-five mortality rate

Goal 5. Improve maternal health

bulletTarget 6: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990
and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

bulletTarget 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
bulletTarget 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria
and other major diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

bulletTarget 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs and reverse the loss of environmental resources
bulletTarget 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation
bulletTarget 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

bulletTarget 12: 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
bulletTarget 13: Address the special needs of the least developed
countries. Includes: tariff and quota-free access for least
developed countries' exports; enhanced program 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
bulletTarget 14: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)
bulletTarget 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
bulletTarget 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
bulletTarget 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies,
provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries
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Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
 

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