Renewing 2015 MDG goals
- Promoting people’s empowerment is a goal that has been completed.
- World AIDS Day: Getting to Zero is a goal that has been completed.
- Ending the Violence of Extreme Poverty is a goal that has been completed.
- According to the World Health Organization’s World Malaria Report 2012, 50 countries around the world are on track to reduce their malaria case incidence rates by 75 per cent by 2015.
- $1.5 billion in commitments for a new initiative to increase access to, and the quality of, education for children worldwide.
- "A global post-2015 agenda with shared responsibilities for all countries and with the fight against poverty and sustainable development at its core.”
- Maternal deaths, the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth related complications has dropped by almost fifty percent in twenty years.
- As billions of people worldwide still lack access to modern energy, the UN launched the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All and called on governments, the private sector and civil society to help expand energy access, improve efficiency and increase the use of renewable energy.
- UN officials called for engaging all of society, and especially young people, to end violence against women, a horror that spans the globe and takes many forms, including domestic violence and many others.
- Top United Nations officials marked the global population reaching 7 billion
What an achievement, seven million people live on this sphere we call home. That really shows a lot of improvement from the 2015 MDG goals.