Clean Water, Sanitation, and the Millennium Development Goals

Financing the Millennium Development Goals for Water and Sanitation:

Flagging global sanitation target threatens other Millennium Development Goals.

News region as " deplorable. " Many have lost all their possessions and are living in the open without any facilities. Although huge numbers of people are injured, there is no medical care, said WFP staff. " It is a very, very alarming situation, " said Getachew Diriba, WFP Senior Programme Officer for Sudan, who had recently visited the region with a delegation from the European Union. " No ma...

Prioritising clean water and sanitation.

Every minute, 1·1 million litres of human excrement joins the river Ganges. It is a staggering statistic but hardly surprising since some 627 million Indians practice open defecation, roughly half the country’s population, and more than half of the estimated 1 billion people around the world who defecate openly. Most of these people live in ten countries in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Indonesi...

Millennium Development Goals: background.

To cite: Chopra M, Mason E. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1):s2–s4. INTRODUCTION The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) arose from one of the largest ever gathering of world leaders in New York in September 2000. Collectively, 189 countries adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which evolved into the MDG. These ambitious targets—ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing mat...

From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

1. Pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2006/18, the Commission for Social Development has included the agenda item entitled “Emerging issues” in its programme of work since its 2007-2008 review and policy cycle. Under this agenda item, the Commission addresses current issues affecting social development that require urgent consideration or new cross-cutting issues in the context ...