United Nations, founded after the major global war, whose job is to secure peace and integrity in the world, reunited again in 2000 in New York City. This is when the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were signed; it included eight main goals to be reached by 2015. The goal was set for everyone starting from third world countries to the capitalists and countries practicing perfect democracy. The objective was to achieve the minimum progress plan that the MDGs stand for.
The General Assembly, by its resolution 53/202 of 17 December 1998, decided to elect «The Millennium Assembly of the United Nations», and to organize a Millennium Summit of the United Nations. The Summit took place on Wednesday September 6th,
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The Summit committee also decided to join forces into a new global partnership in order to decrease extreme poverty, which also led the Millennium Summit, also known as the Millennium Development Goals (Appendix 1).
Those eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that vary from reducing the extreme poverty to the prevention of HIV/AIDS and providing primary education, all have a target -2015. Those entire eight goals have one main humanitarian theme, which is to help the ones in need.
The Millennium Declaration also included counters located in Caucuses such as the Republic of Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Those three countries are equally consigned to perform the MDG meanwhile addressing their specific needs as well.
According to UN Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan who joined the Millennium Declaration in September 2000, and are facing a challenging task nowadays which is the accomplish the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The realization of these goals becomes even more challenging for those countries due to the impact of the global economic and financial
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This time the authors of the report were locals- a company called «AVAG Solutions» Ltd. and it was custom-built by the UNDP, in partnership with the Armenian authorities. This report included three alternatives regarding medium term development in Armenia (from 2009 to 2015). The bottom scenario or the alternative was planned taking into consideration the midterm macroeconomic outline decided by IMF and the government of RA in July 2009. This included several short-term macro economic and fiscal projections placed by the 2010 Budget Law (approved by the National Assembly in December 2009. The second alternative plan, which was a little high-ended, was designed based on the assumption that Armenia will come back to the growth path predicted by the SDP and other pre-crisis documents starting from 2012. This version as a rule acts in accordance with the previous lower case one, except that the GDP contraction in 2009 is predicted at the level of -20% on a year-on-year
accepted as key indicators of progress and development till the first half of the twentieth century. This was a preoccupation of classical economists. But in present century there is a great conflict, which relates development with equality, growth without equitable distribution and prosperity alongside rising gender inequalities. None of which are natural but rather influenced by social and cultural factors. There is need to broaden the concept of development to encompass the overall well-being of people
The Millennium Development Goals and Human Rights Introduction In 2000, 189 member states of the UN set out international development goals, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), by committing to the pursuit of tackling issues such as poverty, hunger, illiteracy, diseases and other key social issues by 2015. These goals had been used and applied by states, NGOs and IGOs in order to improve and defend policies aimed at development. The MDGs plan was unprecedented in its ambition and was the
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), established at the 2000 Geneva Conference are to be achieved within 601 days at the time of submission, if the world is to meet the target date of 2015. The progress of the MDGs has been measured and compared within various studies, and although there is still a long way to go, this UN incentive has encouraged positive action within developing countries to break the poverty cycle (Permanyer, 2011). In particular, the progress of the targets and indicators
advancement of underdeveloped nations. The product was the United Nations Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals. This global partnership consisted of eight goals ranging from the reduction of poverty and hunger to environmental sustainability, all with the key focus of increasing the quality of life of the world’s most disadvantage citizens. Although the United Nations had a deadline of meeting it’s goal of reduction and or elimination hunger by the year 2015, it has become abundantly
physical and neurological consequences. Malnutrition is the bodies’ failure to receive adequate nutrition; as a consequence the child suffers irreversible effects. If the body does not have proper nutrition it causes delays in physical and motor development growth, neurological problems. Malnourished children lack necessary nutrients one of which is vitamin A; vitamin A deficiency causes blindness, severe vitamin A deficiency in children they can
continues to urbanize quickly. Given its present annual growth rate, Asia’s urban population is nearly to double in less than 20 years. Urbanizations reveal more than demographic change. It is both driven by and extremely influences the context and development. It uses both direct and indirect compensation in the effort towards worldwide
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UNDP Urban Slums Democratic Republic of the Congo GETTING THE SLUMS OUT OF THEIR SLUMP I. Topic Background Urban slums have been around since cities came to be. A slum is a housing area that has deteriorated. They provide housing for low wager earning workers whom tend to by migrants. They also are everywhere. They are usually caused when the occupants of an area leave and the empty buildings are turned into makeshift apartments. The rent slowly goes down do to overcrowding to the point that the
Reproduction and health have a deep connection as decisions related to this process of reproduction have a direct impact on health.The health of women in specific is affected greatly. A women should be allowed to decide if she wants to involve herself in the process or reproduction or not. Reproductive health broadly includes health conditions and social conditions that affect reproductive functioning.1A woman should be allowed to make decisions when it comes down to her reproductive health and she
elderly relatives is rising. Immigration of women workers (with or without their families) fro... ... middle of paper ... ...Gregory et al 2012, 2, 56, 70). 5 CONCLUSION Health means different things to different people. But it should mean same goal to gov-ernments worldwide: the best obtainable health for all. World Health Organization (WHO) and its departments (Unicef, UNAIDS, Unifem etc.) play major role in global health politics as leaders and policy makers. Women issue in health is much more
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assume that the negative effects of the high intake of such foods, considering the aggravation of the nutritional anomalies arising from food insecurity will severely increase in developing countries. Despite the fact that one of the main goals of the millennium is the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 (United Nations 2013), many developing nations are still facing severe problems of hunger and undernourishment. Indeed, the global performance in combating hunger needs better delineated
UNICEF also focuses on the healthy development of children (xix). The World Bank and the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition will hold a World Health Assembly Side-Event to discuss food security as well as to draw an agenda for action for 2015 on May 20, 2014 (xx). The Committee on World Food Security was created in 1974 as a branch under FAO to enact food security policies (xxi). The International Fund for Agricultural Development also inherits similar goals of sustaining food security.
COUNTRY CONTEXT Geography As the youngest country in the world, South Sudan has faced a long list of hardships due to this nation's geographic profile. Situated in eastern Africa, South Sudan borders Ethiopia to the east, Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Central African Republic to the west, and its former counterpart Sudan to its north. About the size of Texas with half its population, South Sudan is a relatively spread out country with 84% of its population
The definition gives as the context that education is very important, as early as toddler years, for this will merely help young kids to know what is right or wrong, moral or not. Education is a fundamental human right, preserved in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Despite of it being a fundamental human right, millions of children are still being denied of their right to basic education. Barriers to their right to