In the year 2000, 189 UN Member States pledged that by the year 2015 they will:

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. Develop a global partnership for development

The High-Level Event on the Millennium Development Goals will take place at UN Headquarters on 25 September 2008. It will review progress, identify gaps and motivate commitments to bridge the gaps to ensure that the MDGS are achieved by 2015.

This High-Level Event will send a message to the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development in Doha, Qatar from 29 November to  2 December. From the highest political level, re-committing all actors to a robust global partnership for development.

The UN has launched a special website for the event, which can be accessed at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/2008highlevel/

NGLS and the Millennium Campaign have been identified by the UN as focal points for civil society engagement in the High-Level Event. A consultation process was set up in June-July 2008 in order to seek a small number of nominations for speakers representing civil society organizations at the Roundtables. NGLS has set up an informational page for civil society on the event. To view the page, click here.

Source: UN Non-Governmental Liason Service (NGLS)