What are the MDGs??

The Millennium Development goals are a set of time-bound targets for drastically reducing extreme poverty around the world, and for substantial improvements in health and education. At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, one hundred and eighty-nine countries, the largest gathering of heads of state ever, endorsed the Goals and committed themselves to their achievement by 2015. Since that time, organizations across the globe have convened and collaborated on campaigns to raise awareness of the critical importance of the Goals, and to compel world leaders to fulfill their promises of additional quality funding, trade reform and debt cancellation to achieve the Goals.

Campaigns to Fight Poverty

The ONE Campaign is a diverse coalition of groups working together to expand the number of Americans committed to fighting global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE Campaign will seek to build the political will in the U.S. to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty is a worldwide alliance of organizations, networks and national campaigns committed to eradicating extreme poverty. 2005 is an important year to make progress in the fight against poverty, with several key moments when campaigners will be active on both national and international levels.

The UN Millennium Campaign was established by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to galvanize support for, and stimulate public debate on, the Millennium Goals. The Campaign advocates at both the global and national levels to hold governments and other key actors accountable to the Millennium Development Goals The Campaign supports and works with existing networks, initiatives, and people’s movements, some of which have been struggling on these issues for decades. The nationalized approach allows for the goals and strategies to be defined by and adapted to local contexts.

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