Millennium Development Goals 2000
see http: //www.developmentgoals.org
or: http://www.unmillenniumproject.org
A series of international summits and conferences during the 1990s culminated in the Millennium Declaration that was unanimously adopted by the member states of the UN.
“The Millennium Development Goals commit the international community to an expanded vision of development, one that vigorously promotes human development as the key to sustaining social and economic progress in all countries, and recognizes the importance of creating a global partnership for development. The goals have been commonly accepted as a framework for measuring development progress.”
A More Secure World: Our shared responsibility: Report of the High Level Panel on Threats, challenges and Change. 2004
http://www.un.org/secureworld/
An international group of senior statesmen developed a broad analysis of security threats ranging from poverty and environmental degradation to Nuclear chemical and biological weapons. It emphasised the interconnectedness of all the threats, and the need for coordinated effort to address them.
Sachs Report 2005
Investing in Development – A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/index_overview.htm
An extensive analysis by an international team has identified a series of ways in which major gains towards the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved by relatively modest investments.
In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All.
Kofi Annan 2005
http://www.un.org/largerfreedom/
This paper ties together the previous developments, and highlights the opportunities and challenges that currently exist.