Thématique N°14

A Few Conditions for Bringing the Millennium Objectives to Fruition, by Laurence Boisson de Chazournes

When reviewing these objectives, it seems that we are dealing with an international solidarity covenant. In 2000, the entire international community launched the challenge to confront the problems of poverty by formulating specific goals, particularly:

• Reducing by half the percentage of the world's population suffering from hunger;
• Lowering considerably the infant mortality rate;
• Stopping the spread of AIDS, malaria and other serious diseases;
• Having gender equality recognised; -Providing universal access to primary education;
• Preserving the environment.

In fact, the first attempt at formulating such goals started in 1995 during meetings of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an organisation made up of the worlds "most" economically developed countries. We finally fulfilled this notion of a covenant, which entails goals shared by the United Nations and all States as a whole and whose goals are to be reached in 2015.

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