Which of the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals is the most urgent to be addressed?

Question

Here's the link for the Millennium Goals:

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

Here's the link for the 2007/2008 UN Human Development Report which gives more details for each Goal:

http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_en_complete.pdf

Please give your second and third choise also if you like.

Answer 1

of cause it is

Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

because: if people have nothing to drink or eat, how could you tell them about equality or anything else. even sicknesses are not understandable if you have no clean water

Answer 2

Promote gender equality and empower women. Everything -- studies, anecdotal evidence, experience, everything -- shows that if women are given education and access to jobs, then hunger is reduced, child mortality is reduced, the spread of disease is reduced, the environment improves, and the pregnancy rate drops. In other words -- you address all the other MDGs through addressing MDG #3.

Answer 3

The first one. You don't do this, the others aren't going to matter as much.

Bang for buck, a team of economists showed that spending money on vitamin supplements and iron supplements was one of the most effective things we can do. This is a key part of nutrition.

Answer 4

No. 1 - To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. There is so much poverty in the land. Addressing this will bring about changes. Sustenance of this is very important and I believe with Goals 2 (Achieve universal primary education) and 3 (Promote gender equality and empower women), we can be sure that with time poverty and hunger will be a thing of the past. I say this because there are certain things people can do for themselves with basic primary education. But where there is none at all is worse. And then with women being empowered, it will mean better opportunities for women and greater impact positively in the home. That can also  directly or indirectly translate to improved maternal health , reduced child mortality and also help to combat malaria and other diseases because people are better informed (or can I say more enlightened). There is this saying, "Knowledge is Powe".  With all these in place, goals 7 (Ensure environmental sustainability) and 8 (Develop a global partnership for development) will also be addressed.

Answer 5

i would say that  

eradicate poverty and hunger,

u cannot teach something to anyone who has nothing in stomach as he will not concentrate on it and u cannot achieve what u need.

secondly ; working with partnership with others as teamdevelopment. work together with other countries to develop the needs for the peoples, means develop in all sectors , from food,infrastructure, community development, and  help them to live in  a better and happy world.

gender equality and empower women:

give the rights as equal as to everyone, and also empower the women because she is the one who will lead nations generation, she can teach the kids with all the basic things, like work as a team for the country, enhace the better way of life. and she will emphasise on health issues also, as she needs to be healthy to lead,

as all the millenium goals are compulsory to achieve  the world goals as a happy place to live together , in my point of view these 3 points would be good to answer this question , but u we know the saying as much honey we put as much sweet we get, so we can describe it more in detail.

thats should be ok for that question hope so.

danish

Answer 6

#1. Changenator, Diliash, and Danish got it right.

Jayne is an idiot to think that's the most important thing in the world. What a feminazi!

Oh, #4 and #5 are second and third for me, for much the same reason as I put #1 at #1.

Answer 7

Ron,

I can see 2 Ron minds thin a like..lol..

Sorry Ron, i have not researched any info to answer your questions, however i'm keenly interested to know more about you and your beliefs upon my ideas to start up something in relation to a OWG, so in saying that, i sincerly would like you to contact me, by email so we can nut some things out.

P.S....I sincerly hope your not thinking of going in comp with me considering your a RON too...lol

you best not...or i might just have to wright a little letter to Mr. bush and get you cast into a Psyhc ward like there trying here to do with me...lmao ;-)

Kind Regards

Ron