Issue
The Millennium Development goals are a set of time-bound targets for drastically reducing extreme poverty around the world, and for substantial improvements in health and education. One hundred and eighty-nine countries, the largest gathering of heads of state ever, endorsed the Goals and committed themselves to their achievement by 2015, at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. Since that time, organizations across the globe have convened and collaborated on campaigns to raise awareness of the critical importance of the Goals, and to compel world leaders to fulfill their promises of additional quality funding, trade reform and debt cancellation to achieve the Goals.
Campaigns to Fight Poverty
 The ONE Campaign is a diverse coalition of groups working together to expand the number of Americans committed to fighting global AIDS and extreme poverty.
 The Global Call to Action Against Poverty is a worldwide alliance of organizations, networks and national campaigns committed to eradicating extreme poverty.
The UN Millennium Campaign was established by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to galvanize support for, and stimulate public debate on, the Millennium Goals. The Campaign advocates at both the global and national levels to hold governments and other key actors accountable to the Millennium Development Goals.
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