The Millennium Development Goals offer:

• An unparalleled opportunity to make the world a better place

• A formal recognition that poverty can be solved when both the rich and poor world work together

• A practical and achievable set of targets for international development up to 2015.

The MDGs at a glance

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

3. Promote gender equality and empower women

4. Reduce child mortality

5. Improve maternal health

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

7. Ensure environmental sustainability

8. Develop a global partnership for development - including through fairer trade, debt relief and better aid.

In a world where…

• 1.2 billion people currently live on less than US$1/day

• 28,000 children die from poverty-related causes everyday

MDG 1 aims to…

In a world where…

• 115 million school-aged children are not in school

• 133 million young people cannot read and write

MDG 2 aims to…

In a world where…

Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are female.

MDG 3 aims to…

In a world where… Over 11 million children under the

age of five die each year, most from preventable diseases

MDG 4 aims to…

In a world where…• More than 500,000 women die from

complications of pregnancy and childbirth every year

• More than 50 million women suffer from poor reproductive health and serious pregnancy-related illness and disability

MDG 5 aims to…

In a world where…• About 4.8 million people became newly

infected with HIV in 2003 (more than 13,000each day)

• Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least one million deaths annually

• An estimated two million deaths resulted from tuberculosis in 2002

MDG 6 aims to…

In a world where…

• Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities and one billion lack access to drinkable water

• Forests are disappearing at unprecedented rates globally

MDG 7 aims to…

In a world where…• Cows receive more aid than people

(Europe’s cows receive $2/day in subsidies)• Many developing countries spend more on

interest repayments on their debt than they do on health and education combined

• Only 5 of the world’s rich countries give the amount of aid they committed to in 1970

MDG 8 aims to…