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 ...

Voices of Youth: Find out if your country is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, learn how you can take action, and join a discussion. Cyberschoolbus: See examples of successful ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

September 26, 2013 — In 2000, leaders of 189 nations meeting as the Millennium Summit in New York agreed to pursue a set of Millennium Development Goals for improving human well-being in developing ...

Editor's note: For more on global health, stay tuned for the upcoming September issue of Health Affairs. In 2000, nearly 200 world leaders came together and agreed on a set of objectives intended to ...

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Becoming a mother in sub-Saharan Africa is more dangerous than climbing Mount Everest. In Chad, the odds of dying during pregnancy or childbirth are one in 15; in Sierra Leone, one in 21. Around the ...

As the deadline for the millennium development goals approaches, experts take stock of the successes, failures, and oversights, and look ahead to the next phase -- the sustainable development goals.

The latest UN appraisal shows progress, but in some areas, such as child mortality and biodiversity loss, we’re falling short. In the year 2000, the world agreed to an ambitious eight-point agenda ...

As world leaders gather in New York this week to discuss the future of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, critics are warning that many of the targets cannot be evaluated scientifically ...

The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) are proud to present the Millennium Fellowship Class of 2020, an ambitious program to help make the Sustainable ...