Millennium Development Goals
At the dawn of a new Millennium, the Nations from around the world came together with a vision to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, 8 objectives reflecting the common ideals of humanity.
The 8 Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, are a set of targets that aim to reduce world poverty, its repercussions and for ensuring the sustainability of our environment. Their implementation has resulted in a double engagement: in the pledge of developing countries to take accountability for their citizens, from investing in education to promoting gender equality. In turn, developed countries will also share responsibility by offering aid, debt relief and assuring fairer trade.
Yet in order to achieve the 8 Millennium Development Goals we must truly understand the individuals that are directly affected by them. In this case, documentaries grant such access. Through their power of storytelling they can bring us closer to what we regard as, the ‘Other’ and their world that, at first, may appear so distant from our day-to-day reality.
The 8 Millennium Goals are as follows:
1) ERADICATE EXTREME WORLD POVERTY
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
