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Millennium Development Goals

In September 2000, world leaders came together at UN Headquarters in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty by the deadline of 2015.

These time-bound targets have become known as the Millennium Development Goals. With only five years left, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declared 2010 to be "the year of development", a time to accelerate the process in achieving the following targets (click on the icons for more information):

Promote gender equality and empower women

Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Develop a global partnership for development

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources
Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water
Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

gorta's programmes embrace the UN Millennium Development Goals which challenge all of us to respond to tackle poverty, hunger, disease, lack of shelter and exclusion – while promoting gender equality, healthcare, education, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity.