UN Millennium Goals Update & Post 2015

MDG Report 2013 released

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2013 was launched in Geneva by the Secretary-General on 1 July 2013. The report presents the yearly assessment of global and regional progress towards the MDGs. With the deadline for the MDGs on the horizon, this year's report examines where the targets have been met and where redoubled efforts are needed urgently to accelerate the progress. It also reveals that our attention needs to focus on disparities across geographical areas and population groups within countries.

The report is based on comprehensive official statistics compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG indicators led by the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

The report is available in all UN languages. 

Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The Statistical Annex of the report can be viewed here.

Extract from website http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/News.aspx?ArticleId=75

For more background  information,

http://data.worldbank.org/about/millennium-development-goals

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations have highlighted the following that need to step up efforts to build a more just, secure and sustainable future for all. 

• one in eight people worldwide remain hungry. 
• Too many women die in childbirth when we have the means to save them. 
• More than 2.5 billion people lack improved sanitation facilities, of which one billion continue to practice open defecation, a major health and environmental hazard. 
• Our resource base is in serious decline, with continuing losses of forests, species and fish stocks, in a world already experiencing the impacts of climate change. 

This report also shows that the achievement of the MDGs has been uneven among and within countries. Children from poor and rural households are much more likely to be out of school than their rich and urban counterparts. Wide gaps remain in basic knowledge about HIV and its prevention among young men and women in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been hardest hit by the epidemic. In more than a decade of experience in working towards the MDGs, UN have learned that focused global development efforts can make a difference. 

Through accelerated action, the world can achieve the MDGs and generate momentum for an ambitious and inspiring post-2015 development framework. Now is the time.


After Posting Note: Bill Gates Review of 2013 & Post 2013