Original Source: The Daily Trust

Thursday - 09 Feb, 2012 - Nigeria has called on countries across the globe to redouble their efforts to make the achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) a reality.

Dr Precious Gbeneol, Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs made the call at a news conference on the UN Millennium Campaign and the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria at the UN headquarters on Tuesday.

Gbeneol was accompanied by Rep. Adeyinka Ajayi, Member House Committee on MDGs.

Keeping the promise: united to achieve the Millennium Development Goals

The General Assembly,

Adopts the following outcome document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of
the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly on the Millennium Development
Goals:

At the United Nations Millennium Summit in the year 2000, world leaders made a historic promise: they signed the Millennium Declaration, agreeing to work together to improve the lives of the world’s poorest people. For the first time, rich and poor countries agreed on a global compact and recognized their shared responsibility to end poverty and its root causes once and for all.

Facts/Figures and Country Progress of the Millennium Development Goals.

MDG 1
ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY & HUNGER

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day

Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people

Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) held the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: The Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy in Rome on June 3-5, 2008. Throughout the three days of events, 42 Heads of State and Government, 100 high-level Ministers and 60 non-governmental and civil society organizations from 181 member countries discussed the challenges that climate change, bioenergy and soaring food prices pose to world food security and devised ways to safeguard the world’s most vulnerable populations.

The United Nations Millennium Campaign is pleased to introduce the “Millennium Devel- opment Goals and Muslims: A status Report” pre- pared by Tehreek-e-Pasmanda Muslim Samaj (TPMS) in collaboration with the National Conference of Dalit Organization (NACDOR). The report aims to highlight issues around achieving Millennium Development Goals for the Muslim community in India