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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]
Pages in category "Millennium Development Goals" ... 1GOAL Education for All; E. ... Stand Up and Take Action; U.
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 ...
The MDG-F works in eight thematic areas: Children, Food Security and Nutrition. Programmes in this area aimed at halting preventable deaths caused by child hunger and poor nutrition by providing low cost nutritional packages, engaging with pregnant and lactating mothers to ensure they are healthy and aware of key nutrition issues, increasing food security, [5] and advocating for mainstreaming ...
The current UN development agenda is centred on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) [6] that were officially established following the Millennium Summit of the UN in 2000. The MDGs encapsulate eight globally agreed goals in the areas of poverty alleviation, education, gender equality and empowerment of women, child and maternal health ...
For many local calls the charge is zero; see flat rate. These components form a basic tariff system but, as telecommunication advances, tariff structures become increasingly more complex. [ 3 ] Usually there is the option of calling collect (in the UK known as reversing charges ), where responsibility for charges normally paid by the caller is ...
Location contributes to a child's lack of access and attendance to primary education.In certain areas of the world, it is more difficult for children to get to school. For example, in high-altitude areas of India, poor weather conditions for more than 7 months of the year make school attendance erratic and force children to remain at home (Postiglione).
The Blueprint for Maryland's Future, also referred to as just The Blueprint, is a landmark [1] [2] law in the U.S. state of Maryland.The bill represents a 10-year plan that aims to implement a series of education reforms recommended by the Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education, including expanding universal preschool, increasing funding for schools with high concentrations of ...