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Millennium Development GoalsThe international union movement endorses the UN Millennium Development Goals as agreed by the world's governments, including Australia, at the UN in 2000: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger: halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day; halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education: ensure that, by 2015, 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: eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and in all levels of education no later than 2015 Goal 4: Reduce child mortality: reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate Goal 5: Improve maternal health: reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio Goal 6: Combat HIV, malaria, and other communicable diseases: have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability: halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation; have achieved, by 2020, a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development: develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system; deal comprehensively with developing countries' debt; develop decent and productive work especially for youth; provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries; make available the benefits of new technologies.These aims need to be tempered with a dose of realism: they were adopted by governments after the failure of the UN Decade of Elimination of Poverty, in the 1990s, during which poverty worsened in dozens of countries, and life expectancy plummeted. As a convention adopted by governments the MDGs shy away from addressing the causes of poverty. "Governments routinely express their desire to create a more equal society, and make provision to alleviate the worst sufferings of the poor. But their capacity to do so is behind the adroit effects of markets to lavish prizes on those they favour...Poverty is not a question of the laggards and the left-behind of globalisation, but remains an inescapable structural necessity - required to justify continued growth and expansion beyond sufficiency." (Jeremy Seabrook, Weekly Guardian (UK), 4 August 2006)Many commentators have noted the indicators are chosen so as to allow much leeway in measuring and reporting progress. For example:
Contact Details Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA Ph: (02) 9264 9343 Fax: (02) 9261 1118 office@apheda.org.au Make Poverty History Resources
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