Today, fewer people go hungry. There are more children attending school. Fewer and fewer people are dying unnecessarily from easily preventable and treatable diseases. Yet with only 500 days until the ...

Millions of people's lives have improved due to concerted global, regional, national and local efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which serve as the foundation for the next ...

Goal 1: Bangladesh: Women emerge from poverty Goal 2: UNDP: Strengthening education in Bangladesh Goal 3: India: Transforming poor rural women into successful business managers Goal 4: In Ethiopia, ...

The number of undernourished persons in developing regions would drop to 775.1 million by 2015, the chief of UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization Jose Graziano da Silva said ROME, November 18. /TASS ...

In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the Millennium Declaration, which evolved into an ambitious set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals, to be achieved by the end of ...