What does MD stand for?

Millennium Declaration

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According to the event's official website, in September 2000, 189 world leaders adopted the MDGs as part of the Millennium Declaration agreed to at the UN's Millennium Summit.

AIA takes Action to end Poverty

Ume-Ezeoke pointed that as a millennium declaration, which seeks to reduce development divide, end hunger and poverty, eradicate illiteracy, empower women and achieve gender equality among others the country should embrace and accommodate it as it will provide the necessary support in delivering development opportunities across the society.

Nigeria: Seven-Point Agenda - Ume-Ezeoke Proposes Public-Private ...

And they are short of the aspirations of the United Nations' Millennium Declaration of 2000, which set a goal of slashing mortality rates of children under 5 to 31 deaths per 1,000 live births by 2015.

Preventable Deaths

The Millennium Declaration in 2000 set a goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2015.

'People will die' in crisis fallout, says Boutros Ghali

00 Paperback HQ1237 Goal 3 of the United Nations Millennium Declaration of 2000 seeks to "eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015.

Equality for women; where do we stand on millennium development goal ...

The eight goals, adopted by world leaders in the Millennium Declaration in 2000, include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal education and promoting gender equality.

Obama could make 'amazing' difference for poor: UN aid chief

Their aim is to put pressure on the 189 heads of state who signed the Millennium Declaration in 2000 to reduce poverty.

Bishops' beasts of burden

In September 2000 the UN General Assembly adopted the "United Nations Millennium Declaration," which set a goal "to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day.

Obama's bill would commit the United States to UN poverty goals