Towards the end of 2015 and earlier this year, a group of artists from around the world joined forces in support of the UN’s 2016 Global Millennium Development Goals. Having just been rewritten ...

The new Agenda calls on countries to begin efforts to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs ... challenges in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goal 8, while looking ...

Yet with only 500 days until the end of the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, criticism remains that many countries will be unable to reach what can be considered arbitrary global targets.

At the same time, however, several of the UN’s eight millennium goals have seen painfully little progress and at the current snail’s pace of improvement won’t be reached, development experts ...

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 ...

Millennium Development Goals, set by the United Nations 10 years ago, include initiatives to protect the environment, increase development aid, open the global trading and financial system ...

Q2: Has there been progress toward achieving the goals? A2: Ten years on, and five years from their deadline, the Millennium Development Goals are, in general, far behind schedule and unlikely to be ...

With Unicef saying that infant mortality is at an all-time low, how close is the world to achieving the UN's millennium development goals? September 2005 Next week the UN meets to review progress ...

With only six years until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chose these words to strongly urge Governments to engage constructively in ...

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 ...

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 They have been superseded by the sustainable development goals ...