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MADRE Mobilizes on the UN Millennium Development Goals

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In 2000, world leaders representing all 191 countries that belong to the United Nations pledged to achieve these eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. Since then, the goals have become the main framework for development policy worldwide. They have even been adopted by many of the international agencies and banks that control the budgets of most poor countries, giving the MDGs real currency in the political economy of UN declarations. The MDGs create opportunities for advancing women's human rights, but only if we are able to participate effectively in the process of realizing the goals.

Help Achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

Join MADRE in the global effort to end poverty and promote development by supporting programs that go beyond improving statistical indicators to addressing root causes of human rights violations.

MADRE Critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals

"The MDGs call for change, but not for creating the conditions to make real change possible," writes Yifat Susskind, MADRE's Associate Director. For MADRE's critique of the UN MDG's, please see:



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