Our Responses to Thought Question 2
A selection of answers to Thought Question 2 are posted below.
Please read through the list of United Nations Millennium Goals (available here), and then draft three to five thoughtful paragraphs about the following topic:
Which goals relate directly to girls’ education? Which goals are dependent on educating girls for their fulfillment?
You can find out more details about the Millennium Goals and get current information on the status of achieving them at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals.
Please read through the list of United Nations Millennium Goals (available here), and then draft three to five thoughtful paragraphs about the following topic:
Which goals relate directly to girls’ education? Which goals are dependent on educating girls for their fulfillment?
You can find out more details about the Millennium Goals and get current information on the status of achieving them at http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals.
From the United Nations Development Programme (may require log-in):
Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Reduce by half the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day • Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education • Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women • Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality • Reduce by two thirds the mortality of children under five
Goal 5 Improve maternal health • Reduce maternal mortality by three quarters
Goal 6 Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Halt and reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS • Halt and reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability • Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse the loss of environmental resources • Halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation • Improve the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020
Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development • Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system • Address special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states • Deal with developing countries’ debt • In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth • In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • Reduce by half the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day • Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education • Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling
Goal 3 Promote gender equality and empower women • Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Goal 4 Reduce child mortality • Reduce by two thirds the mortality of children under five
Goal 5 Improve maternal health • Reduce maternal mortality by three quarters
Goal 6 Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Halt and reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS • Halt and reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability • Integrate principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse the loss of environmental resources • Halve the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation • Improve the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers by 2020
Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development • Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system • Address special needs of the least developed countries, landlocked countries and small island developing states • Deal with developing countries’ debt • In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth • In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
