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Millennium Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals. In the year 2000, the member states of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration. This document contains the MDGs , a set of realistic and achievable targets.

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Millennium Development Goals

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  1. Millennium Development Goals • In the year 2000, the member states of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration. This document contains the MDGs, a set of realistic and achievable targets. • The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are international targets for reducing global poverty. They aim to lift around 500 million people out of poverty by the year 2015.

  2. MDG #2 • Achieve Universal Primary Education • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5KSCJFQNcs

  3. Primary Education Secondary Education Primary School Secondary School

  4. Literacy Rate • The percentage (%) of people who know how to read and write • If you are literate, you can to read and write • If you are illiterate, you cannot read or write

  5. MDG #3 • Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAi2O0MCScg

  6. Gender Equality • Women and men are given the same opportunities in school, work, society, etc.

  7. Empower • To permit, enable, encourage

  8. UNESCO • United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

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