On September 8, 2000, the 189 nations of the general assembly of the United Nations (UN) adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration. This declaration reaffirms international commitment to the organization and charter of the UN and establishes shared fundamental values for the twenty-first century. Included among these objectives are a specific group of 8 goals which have been named the M...

Five years after the Millennium Declaration was signed, few of the poorest countries in the world are on track to achieve the millennium development goals for health. 2 In September 2005, heads of state renewed their commitment to these goals and to finding the resources to achieve them. The needs are substantial. An additional $73bn (£41bn; €60bn) in external aid will be needed in 2006 alone f...

1 At the Millennium Assembly in September 2000, the world’s leaders signed a global compact to reduce extreme poverty in the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are drawn from the Millennium Declaration, call for a decisive reduction of extreme poverty in its key dimensions – income, hunger, disease, environmental degradation, and lack of access to basic servi...