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Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals | Millennium Development Goals |
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In September 2000, the leaders of 189 countries adopted the Millennium Declaration at the United Nations Millennium Summit and formulated eight specific goals to improve the situation all around the world. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for poverty reduction and improvements in health, education, gender equality, the environment and other aspects of human welfare were ambitiously set to be met by 2015. However, 6 years on, civil society leaders from all over the world express their worries about the achievement of these goals, as the efforts made until now are far too little. The MDGs have the potential to be the global agenda of humanity to overcome global injustice in a worldwide joint effort. If we want the MDGs to be achieved instead of only being a nice declaration of politicians' goodwill, people must be informed about them and understand their own role in overcoming the most important problems of humankind. For us, the fact that 88% of Europeans have never heard of the MDGs was a reason good enough to carry out an awareness raising campaign during which we have encouraged people to take part in the global struggle against poverty and to become active supporters of the MDGs as responsible consumers and citizens.
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