Millennium Development Goals

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. 

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve Maternal Health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Global partnership for development

Recommended Reading

• Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster, by Paul Bacon and Christopher Hobson
• Human Security and Natural Disasters, by Christopher Hobson, Paul Bacon and Robin Cameron
• Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises, by Dorothea Hilhorst
• Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
• Half the Sky, by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Other HA-related Documents and Publications

• Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• OCHA reports and publications
• List of International NGOs

Websites

• FEWS Net: Famine Early Warning Systems Network
• Relief Web
• The Sphere Project
• The United Nations
• The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)