2002

THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Achieve universal primary education • Promote gender equality and empower women • Reduce child mortality • Improve maternal health • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Ensure environmental sustainability • Halve the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day • Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger • Eliminate gender disparity in education • To halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases • To reduce maternal mortality • Halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water • Make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications