Goal 2 achieve universal education the second

Goal 2: Achieve universal education
The second Millennium Development Goal calls for
achieving universal primary education. Progress is
assessed against the target of ensuring that, by 2015,
children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to
complete a full course of primary school.
Target: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys
and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of
primary schooling.

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Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
The Millennium Declaration resolves to promote gender
equality and the empowerment of women as basic human
rights. The Declaration also maintains that giving women
their fair share is the only way to combat poverty, hunger,
and disease effectively and to stimulate truly sustainable
development. Progress toward this goal is assessed by
measuring gender equality in three areas: education,
employment, and political decision-making.
No specific target was established.
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
The fourth Millennium Development Goal calls for
reducing child mortality. Progress is assessed against the
target of reducing by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015,
the under-five mortality rate.
Target: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015,
the under-five mortality rate.
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Complications during pregnancy and childbirth are a
leading cause of death and disability among women
of reproductive age in developing countries. The fifth
Millennium Development Goal calls for improving
maternal health. Progress is assessed against the target
of reducing by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015,
the maternal mortality ratio.
Target: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and
2015, the maternal mortality rate.
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other
diseases.
The sixth Millennium Development Goal calls for
stopping and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria,
and other major diseases, including tuberculosis. Not
surprisingly, all three of these diseases are concentrated
in the poorest countries. They could be controlled largely
through education, prevention, and, when illness strikes,
intervention.
Target: Halt and begin to reverse by 2015 the spread of
HIV/AIDS.

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Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Reversing the loss of environmental resources, including
forests, biological diversity, and the earth’s ozone layer, is
among the targets for seventh Millennium Development
Goal, along with provision of safe water, adequate
sanitation, and decent, affordable housing for the world’s
poor.
Target: Integrate the principles of sustainable development
into national policies and programs and reverse the loss of
environmental resources.
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
The Millennium Declaration embodies partnership
between developed and developing countries. The eighth
Millennium Development Goal calls for more official
development assistance, measures to ensure debt
sustainability in the long term, an open, equitable, rule-
based, predictable, and non-discriminatory multilateral