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 ...

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 ...

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...

MINSK, 24 October (BelTA) – Belarus has managed to reach nearly all UN Millennium Development Goals, UN/UNDP Resident Representative in Belarus Sanaka Samarasinha said at the meeting of Belarus' ...

These effects will escalate over time. The long-term negative impact of AIDS can be expected to accelerate. Classic GDP growth models may fail to capture the negative long-term intergenerational ...

This fact sheet [1] highlights the progress of rural women against key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators, pointing to some of the advancements made and gaps that still exist. It suggests ...

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 ...