1st Edition

UN Millennium Development Library: Who's Got the Power Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children

By UN Millennium Project Copyright 2005
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if... Read more

Foreword -- Contents -- Task force members -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Millennium Development Goals -- Executive summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2

Biography

The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by the UN Secretary-General and sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme on behalf of the UN Development Group. The report is an independent publication that reflects the views of the members of the Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health, who contributed in their personal capacity.