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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: 2010 Biodiversity Target, Agenda 21, Barbados Programme of Action, Broad Economic Categories, Chapter I of the United Nations Charter, Copenhagen Accord, Declaration by United Nations, Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Development Assistance Database, Development Business, Dublin Statement, Earth Charter, English-Arabic Parallel Corpus of United Nations Texts, Facts for Life, Forest Principles, Hamburg Rules, Harmony with nature, International Bill of Human Rights, Letters of assist, Market production, Millennium Development Goals, Monterrey Consensus, Refugee travel document, Sexual orientation and gender identity at the United Nations, Ten Threats, The Book of Aspirations, UNDP Beijing Express Declaration, UNeDocs, United Nations Development Assistance Framework, United Nations Document Codes, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV), United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1654 (XVI), United Nations General Assembly Resolution 97 (1), United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, United Nations laissez-passer, United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories, United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database, United Nations System of National Accounts, United Nations Treaty Series, UNMIK Travel Document, UN Chronicle, UN Competitive Examination, UN Principles of Medical Ethics, World report on disability, Yearbook of the United Nations. Excerpt: The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were officially established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. All 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve these goals by the year 2015. The goals are: Each of the goals has specific stated targets and dates for achieving those targets. To accelerate progress, the G8 Finance Ministers agreed in June 2005 to provide enough funds to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to cancel an additional $40 to $55 billion in debt owed by members of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) to allow impoverished countries to re channel the resources saved from the forgiven debt to social programs for improving health and education and for alleviating poverty. Debate has surrounded adoption of the MDGs, focusing on lack of analysis and justification behind the chosen objectives, the difficulty or lack of measurements for some of the goals, and uneven progress towards reaching the goals, among other criticisms. Although developed countries' aid for achieving the MDGs has been rising over recent years, more than half the aid is towards debt relief owed by poor countries, with much of the remaining aid money going towards natural disaster relief and military aid which do not further development. Progress towards reaching the goals has been uneven. Some countries have achieved many of the goals, while others are not on track to realize any. A UN conference in September 2010 reviewed progress to date and concluded with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015 target date. There were also new commitments on women's and children's health, and new initiatives in the worldwide battle against poverty, hunger, and disease. Government organizatio
