Lewis Sanders IV - UN Millennium Development Goals

A Critical Examination of the UN Millennium Development Goals

Due to a growingly interdependent world encompassed by sweeping globalization processes, the need for progressive development in the impoverished countries of today’s world should be a critical concern for the highly developed Western world. For this reason, global society’s moral consciousness began a progressive journey in the early days of September 2000, when 189 member states of the United Nations conceived a series of normative international development targets dubbed the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. These goals are targeted at the poorest countries of the world and were accented by the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
Still, the problems postulated by these goals are interrelated and most affected by poverty-related issues. Though collective efforts are needed to meet all of these goals by 2015, fulfilling the first goal immediately would have the largest impact on the achievement of the other goals. Yet, is this possible to achieve? The answer lies within a critical evaluation and critique of the first goal of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.