(url) http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/07/26/d70726050157.htm
The United Nations (UN) set up the MDGs, which are called millennium development goals. They are designed to commit their nations to a new global partnership to decrease poverty, and to promote gender equality, education, and environment sustainability before the deadline of 2015. There are eight main goals that the UN made as indicated in the website: (http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/index.htm)
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
There are some countries that are having slow or no progress at all on those goals and there has been recent cases on "persistent inequalities undermining progress on others" such as Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa.
According to The Daily Star news article, the finance and planning adviser, Mirza Azizul Islam wanted to encourage the developed nations to "ensure duty and quota free market access" to the least developed countries such as Bangladesh in order to meet the MDGs goals because it's one of the least underdeveloped countries today and it needs extreme support to achieve that goal by 2015 otherwise its commitment to the global partners will not be honored. I just don't understand why the UN needs to achieve that goals by 2015, don't you think it's impossible to make that happen since most undeveloped countries like Bangladesh are seriously under crisis and how the terrorism has arise so quickly and expanding from Middle East to Europe? Why 2015? I've always ponder why. These MDGs goals remind me of three little wishes or the best dreams a country can have. It's so unrealistic to me.
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I agree. Why so soon. We just learned that it is a process that takes time. We can't just go in there, start changing things and expect everything to go smoothly. People most likely will not immediately have a positive reaction. I think the slower the process, the better that way we can fix unforseen mistakes one at a time, and not give up if it doesn't work right away.
I do commend the goals that the U.N. has set, but the date of 2015 I agree is arbitrary. But it is nice to be able to have goals to look towards, and to start thinking in that direction. I think in some ways the very idea of trying to do things quickly is a Western (maybe even American) value - in our country it seems everything is done at a hurried rushed pace. We seem to have forgotten how to just "be" and enjoy the moments of life - it seems we are running so fast to somewhere, and in fact have lost the sense of already being somewhere, which many "traditional" cultures have.
I remember the local people in Costa Rica and the BVI and how laid back they were about everything, and I thought that was a nice quality, and welcome respite from the go-go-go attitude of Americans in general. I hope that is not something you have to lose in order to be "developed"....
I agree that this sort period of time is unrealistic and most countries will never make this deadline. At least the UN is recognizing the problem, but to really remedy the problem will take more than a quick fix. It's typical of western views to apply short term rather than longer term solutions.
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