Vlog Entry Millennium Development Goals / One Village One World by One Village One World

We can not say it any better than this 2008 update on the MDGs by the Secretary of the United Nations:

In adopting the Millennium Declaration in the year 2000, the international community pledged to "spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty." We are now more than halfway towards the target date - 2015 - by which the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved.

Looking ahead to 2015 and beyond, there is no question that we can achieve the overarching goal: we can put an end to poverty. In almost all instances, experience has demonstrated the validity of earlier agreements on the way forward; in other words, we know what to do. But it requires an unswerving, collective, long-term effort. Time has been lost. We have wasted opportunities and face additional challenges, making the task ahead more difficult. It is now our responsibility to make up lost ground - and to put all countries, together, firmly on track towards a more prosperous, sustainable and equitable world.

BAN KI-MOON