Transparency International

Millennium Development Goals are unreachable without commitment to fighting corruption

There will be no fair world, no abolition of extreme poverty, as long as the calculus of corruption undermines education, health, trade and the environment. Dramatic reduction of corruption levels is ...
webtv.un.org

Gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals

It gives me great pleasure to chair the opening session of this important workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to welcome all participants, particularly those ...
webtv.un.org

GA High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals – Statement by PA Minister for Planning and Administrative Development – Verbatim record (excerpts)

The Acting Chair: I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Ali Jarbawi, Minister for Planning and Administrative Development of the Palestinian Authority. Mr. Jarbawi (Palestine): In paragraph 2 of ...
Traffic

Trading Nature: the contribution of wildlife trade management to sustainable livelihoods and the Millennium Development Goals

Bonn, Germany, 24th May 2008—Well-managed wildlife trade has the potential to deliver significant development benefits for the world’s poor, finds a new report by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade ...
Zawya

What worked, and what didnt, in the Millennium Development Goals

At this century’s start, leaders from every country agreed to pursue the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs. The ambition was to improve significantly the lot of the planet’s most ...
Zawya

'Millennium goals integral to Jordan's development plans'

21 September 2010 AMMAN (JT) -- His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday said that Jordan has integrated the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into its national strategy of structural reform, sustainable ...