The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of ...

The Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, set an ambitious agenda to cut extreme poverty while also pursuing improved access to education, health services, and safe drinking water. One thousand ...

Today’s post explores debates over the Millennium Development Goals, their track record, and their future. With 2015 rapidly approaching, governments, NGOs, and multilateral organizations are ...

With just 500 days left before the Millennium Development Goals expire, it is important to acknowledge all that they have spurred the world to achieve. This column is part of the MDG 500 milestone ...

The World Health Organization reports the world is less poor and healthier now than it was 15 years ago when the United Nations launched the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium ...

But when the United Nations formed its Millennium Development Goals in 2000, it devoted one goal–Goal 3–specifically to gender equality and female empowerment in the developing world ...

Discussions have already begun on what should replace them, with some criticising the current goals as being unrealistic. The eight United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs ...

The U.N. adopted the SDGs in 2015 as the successor to the expiring Millennium Development Goals. The MDGs, adopted at the Millennium Summit in 2000, had eight goals, 21 targets, and 60 indicators ...

The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as the United Nations’ chief initiative for advancing basic living standards and addressing a ...

News, comment and features on the millennium development goals, or MDGs: the global attempt to address extreme poverty in 2000-15. They have been superseded by the sustainable development goals ...