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In September 2000, the United Nations Assembly unanimously adopted the UN Millennium Declaration.
It was an 8 goal agenda that all 192 Member States agreed to adopt.
We, the humanity of the third Millennium, have achieved that technological, economic
and political progress from where we can no longer justify hunger and the exclusion of
millions from basic health and education. In 2000, the international community acknowledged
that it has a duty to recognise the fundamental rights of those who are being excluded from
the benefits of progress. At the United Nations Assembly, all countries committed themsleves
to a work agenda that would tackle the most evident factors of poverty and injustice.
They set 8 goals, they set 21 targets, they set timelines, they allocated funds: and in
order to verify if they were being honest with their commitments, they set a number
of indicators upon which they asked to be judged. And for the first time in world history,
a concrete work agenda for the rights of the voiceless was universally agreed.
The MDGs today provide a framework for the UN system and for synergizing the various
international cooperation activities in a coherent worldwide effort. The MDG targets
have become an integral part of Global indicators for development. Each year, an annual report
is prepared that assesses the progress made by member states in fulfilling the pledges
they made.
Although the UN has a key role to play in addressing the challenges and in tracking
the global progress towards these goals, it is National Governments that have the responsibility
to achieve the MDG targets. Thousands of programmes and projects have been operational, involving
a large amount of human and technical resources. However, the resources and efforts have proved
to be inadequate; and the progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development
Goals has been uneven and slow. Many countries finally did not allocate the resources that
they had committed to. And the international media did not pay much attention to the MDGs,
so the general public is little informed about them. There is a growing concern that many
targets will not be achieved within the set deadline of the year 2015.
In the vides collected on Youtube Channel we will observe projects on the ground and
see what developing and developed nations are doing in order to contribute to achieving
the MDGs.