2024-09-20
45 分钟Foreign.
September 2000,
world leaders gathered at the UN headquarters in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
It was the largest ever gathering of its kind and there was optimism abound.
The leaders here assemble can rewrite human history in the new millennium.
If we have learned the lessons of the past, we can leave a very different legacy for our children.
The United States under President Bill Clinton was one of the 189 countries committing to the aim of eradicating extreme poverty.
They made a list of eight targets with a deadline of 2015,
which became the Millennium Development Goals.
As a result, the number of people.
That live on less than $1.25 per.
Day has dropped by more than half.
This video from the UN Development Program gives the scorecard as it stood 15 years later.
The number of primary school age kids.
Who don't go to school, down by almost half.
Child mortality, down by almost half.
It was clear that progress had been made.
And it's with this sense of achievement that in 2015,
the leaders of the world agreed to the next set of targets.
17 Sustainable Development Goals.