LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most ...

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The Sustainable Development Committee will deliver its final report on the Millennium Development Goals at the United Nations soon. A new leaf will be turned as the General Assembly takes the ...

Fifteen years ago, the UN pledged to cut the global child mortality rate by two-thirds by the end of 2015, but it is a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) the world is unlikely to reach. We look at why ...

UNITED NATIONS (Borneo Bulletin/ANN): The United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “are not mere benchmarks”, said Brunei King Sultan Hassanal ...

Guilin - China's balanced development is helping it achieve the goals it set at the beginning of the millennium, said a representative of the United Nations. "With development its priority, China has ...

Millions of people's lives have improved due to concerted global, regional, national and local efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which serve as the foundation for the next ...

Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) President Shamim Ahmed Shamsi has said the KCCI will pursue a medium-term plan, 2015, which includes eight millennium development goals as advocated by ...

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Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - A report on the Millennium Development Goals, "MDG 2010: Keeping the promise" will be released this afternoon. Made public a few months before a meeting of world leaders in ...