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In 2014, the UN's Commission on the Status of Women agreed on a document that called for the acceleration of progress towards achieving the millennium development goals, and confirmed the need for a stand-alone goal on gender equality and women's empowerment in post-2015 goals, and for gender equality to underpin all of the post-2015 goals. [75]
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000 world leaders had initiated the development of the MDGs and set a completion date for the project of June 2005. In order to support the MDGs, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Administrator of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Mark Malloch Brown launched the Millennium Project to ...
Millennium Promise or The Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc., is an American non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware and is a founding partner of the organization, Malaria No More with the stated goal of ending extreme poverty within a human lifetime.
The MDGs encapsulate eight globally agreed goals in the areas of poverty alleviation, education, gender equality and empowerment of women, child and maternal health, environmental sustainability, reducing HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases, and building a global partnership for development. The MDG's overall target date is 2015. [7]
Note: This category should only contain articles about topics for which the MDG are a defining characteristic - i.e. topics whose existence is as a result of the MDG. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Papaya is a free app for Android or iOS users that makes it easy to pay bills through your phone. Just take a photo of the bill, confirm the payment method, and then track the status of the ...
Online bill pay is an electronic payment service offered by many banks, credit unions and bill-pay services. It allows consumers to make various types of payments through a website or app, such as ...
It is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations General Assembly to succeed the former Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). According to the United Nations, the overall goal is to: "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all."