Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1; Halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger; Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
As a key first step towards global development, this goal aims at empowering individuals, groups, and entire nations.
Currently, close to 1 billion people live on less than one dollar a day – what we call extreme poverty.
Although the proportion of people living in poverty has decreased somewhat since 1990, much of this progress can be attributed to rapid economic growth in Eastern and Southern Asia.
Not surprisingly, the global economic crisis has slowed progress toward achieving this goal.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal1.shtml

Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Although many developing countries have come a long way in their efforts toward universal education, it currently does not look as though this goal will be achieved by 2015. It will require immediate action and a strong, international effort to ensure access to primary education in all parts of the world.
Currently, around 72 million children still do not go to primary school, and 57 percent of them are girls. Indeed, significant gaps in school enrollment still exist between children in urban and rural areas, and between boys and girls.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal2.shtml

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
The inclusion of women in education and the workplace are interrelated issues: societies where women have greater equality stand a much greater chance of improving the quality of life for everyone.
At this point, two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people are women, and the employment rate for women is two-thirds that for men.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal3.shtml

Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.

Currently, we could prevent about 70% of newborn deaths with available low-cost interventions, such as antibiotics, insecticide-treated bed nets, and nutritional supplements.
Right now, over 10 million children die each year from preventable causes such as malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, malnutrition, and AIDS.
The 2015 target of halving the proportion of underweight children will be missed unless we expand basic health services in Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
50% of the deaths of children under five years occur in sub-Saharan Africa, even though only 20% of the world’s children live in this region.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal4.shtml

Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio, and achieve universal access to reproductive health.

Improvements in maternal health are tightly linked with preventing infant mortality and protecting family health overall.
Maternal mortality could significantly be reduced by expanding reproductive health services before, during, and after pregnancy, as well as by making life-saving interventions.
In the world right now, over half a million women and girls die each year from complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
In sub-Saharan Africa, where almost half of the worlds maternal deaths occur, only 46% of deliveries receive skilled care. Additionally, more than 50 million women suffer from poor reproductive health and serious pregnancy-related illness and disability.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal5.shtml

Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS; Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it; Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.

The fight against these widely spread and highly lethal diseases is a crucial element in meeting the other Millennium Development Goals.
In 2006, 39.5 million people were living with HIV. In that year alone, 4.3 million people were infected. Additionally, approximately 15 million children around the world have lost one or both parents to AIDS. There needs to be great strides made in educating young people on how to protect themselves against HIV. The number of HIV cases is increasing at a faster rate than the growth in availability of treatment options.
Malaria causes more than 300 million acute illnesses and at least one million deaths annually.
An estimated 1.6 million deaths resulted from tuberculosis in 2005.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.shtml
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal6.shtml

Seeks to:
1) integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programs, reversing the loss of environmental resources;
2) reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss;
3) halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation;
4) By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers.

Presently, forests are disappearing at the rate of 200sq. km a day. That’s equivalent to losing forest cover the size of a soccer pitch every 2 seconds, or the size of Panama every year.
This deforestation is displacing indigenous peoples from their native homes and uprooting their livelihoods.
Over 2.4 billion people lack access to proper sanitation facilities and one billion lack access to drinkable water. this leads to malnutrition, diarrhea and high mortality rates.
Around 2 million children die every year from preventable infections spread by dirty water or improper sanitation facilities.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal7.shtml

A global partnership for development with multiple objectives. The deal makes it clear that it is the primary responsibility of poor countries to work towards achieving the first seven goals. For this to be achieved, however, it is absolutely critical that rich countries deliver on their end of the bargain with increased and more effective aid, debt relief and fairer trade rules well in advance of 2015.

1) develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system;
2) address the special needs of the least developed countries;
3) deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries;
4) in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries;
5) in cooperation with the private sector, make available benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications.

In our world today, the proportion of the national budgets that donor countries allocate to development aid (foreign aid) is falling, despite renewed commitments to increase it.
Only Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have reached or exceeded the United Nations target of 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) for development aid.
As of early 2007 members of the WTO had still not establish a program to improve the prospects of developing countries on the global marketplace, despite promises made in that regard during the Doha rounds of negotiations in 2001.

Sources:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html
http://www.undp.org/mdg/goal8.shtml