The MDGs

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The MDGs

• Millennium Development Goals

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United Nations

• The United Nations is an international
  organization founded in 1945 after the Second
  World War by 51 countries committed to
  maintaining international peace and security,
  developing friendly relations among nations and
  promoting social progress, better living
  standards and human rights

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4 Main Purposes of UN

• To keep peace throughout the world
• To develop friendly relations among nations
• To help nations work together to improve the
  lives of poor people, to conquer hunger, disease
  and illiteracy, and to encourage respect for each
  others rights and freedoms
• To be a center for harmonizing the actions of
  nations to achieve these goals.

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MDGsWhat are They?

• Goals for Developing Countries to help them help
  their people to meet basic needs

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Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

• Cut in half people living on less than 1/day
• Provide jobs
• Cut in half the number of hungry people

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Achieve Universal Primary Education

• Allow boys and girls the opportunity to have a
  primary education (grade 5)

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Empower Women-Gender Equality

• Increase number of women in government
• Increase job opportunities for women

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Reduce Child Mortality

• Lessen the number of children dying before the
  age of 1 (infant) and 5 (child)

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Improve Maternal Health

• Increase number of births attended by doctors
• Reduce number of moms dying related to childbirth

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Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other dieseases

• Stop and reverse the spread of AIDS
• Increase availabilty of medications

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Environmental Sustainability

• Improve lives of slum dwellers (favelas)
• Reverse loss of environmental resources

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Global Partnerships

• Fair trade
• Lessen poverty
• Govern fairly

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http//www.mdgmonitor.org/factsheets.cfm

• This site will become your very best friend this
  year!

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Human Development Index (HDI)

• Ranking of 185 countries in terms of overall
  quality of life (1 is the best, 185, the worst)
• Life expectancy, literacy/education, healthcare,
  standards of living
• Helps to determine developed or underdeveloped
  countries

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Top 10???

• What are the 10 countries with the best overall
  quality of life??
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_
  Human_Development_Index