The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty rates to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date ...

UN Millennium Development Goals report shows how 'bold targeting' has reduced the gap between boys and girls attending primary school, malaria mortality, and the number of people living ...

IUN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin testified on the MDG hearing in the House of Representatives this morning about how partnerships between the public sector and private corporations and philanthropies ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here Monday that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are achievable by its deadline of 2015, calling on world leaders to exercise political leadership and ...

"The MDGs were first put forward by the United Nations, which is the world's most authoritative and universal inter-governmental organization," Sha Zukang, the UN's under-secretary-general for ...

The United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, are a set of voluntary global goals designed to accelerate progress over a 15-year span in key areas, such as health, education, and ...

This week, world leaders are reviewing the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at a summit in New York. They should have the courage to admit to each other and to their ...

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN System in China jointly launched the Report on China's Implementation of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (2000-2015) in Beijing on ...

The MDG Summit is a response to certain of the criticisms faced by the United Nations regarding the MDGs. In recently leaked background papers from the secretary-general’s retreat for high-level staff ...

The ubiquitous ‘development goals’ chosen by the United Nations – first Millennium (MDGs) in 2000 and now Sustainable (SDGs) – were and are and will be a ...

An audio transcript of a press conference in which our friends at the UN Foundation preview next week’s UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals. On-the-Record Press Teleconference with UN ...

The UN is working with governments, civil society and other partners to build on the momentum generated by the MDGs and carry on with an ambitious post-2015 development agenda.