MDG timeline
Why are the MDGs important?
The MDGs provide us with a set of clear goals to be reached by 2015 to reduce poverty by half. These goals cover a wide range of issues that the international community have agreed to meet.
To recap:
- first there was the United Nations Secretary General’s report
- then the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals, with indicators to measure progress toward those goals
- altogether, eight broad goals, 18 more specific targets and 48 indicators have been devised
| 2015 Target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals |
| 2007 Discussions continue about the indicators to measure the new Reproductive Health target. 2007 is the halfway point to reaching all of the MDGs |
| 2006 Kofi Annan announced that there would be a new RH target under MDG 5 – ‘to achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015" |
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2005 World summit
The largest gathering of world leaders in history reaffirmed a commitment to providing universal access to reproductive health first made in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.
Along with other organizations, IPPF campaigned for the introduction of a new RH target under MDG 5 despite fierce opposition from the current US administration, the Holy See and other UN member States |
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2004/2005 Countdown 2015 - Sexual and Reproductive Rights for all
As part of the tenth anniversary of The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), a series of national and regional events outside of the UN framework were organized and led by IPPF |
2001 Millennium Development Goals announced
A plan for world development by 2015
No SRH rights, only vague gender rights |
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2000 United Nations Millennium Summit
Leaders and Heads of State of 189 countries met in New York in September 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit to discuss the major problems affecting the developing world
From the Summit came the Millennium Declaration, and a year later a series of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was issued with the overarching aim of reducing poverty by half by 2015 |
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1999 ICPD +5 (five year review)
Member nations reiterated their support for the conclusions of the 1994 ICPD at Cairo in a five-year review. That review, in a special General Assembly session, benefited enormously from the work of countless nongovernmental organizations and committed government delegations |
“Why reproductive health wasn’t put up as one of the seven domestic policy goals
– I think the answer’s obvious,” said Ambassador Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala. “A lot of Islamic countries and countries that are close to the Holy See prefer not to talk about the subject, in spite of the Cairo declaration” |
1995 UN 4th World Conference on Women, Beijing
Determined to advance the goals of equality, development and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity
For the first time SRH became rights that were intrinsic to the rights of women |
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1994 ICPD
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was held in 1994 in Cairo. 179 countries agreed to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health by 2015 |
| This was a landmark decision because the focus changed from population control, to the SRH and rights of individuals; regarding SRH as human rights |