The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are fundamentally a set of eight global goals
for the achievement of basic economic and social rights for all, with time-bound targets to be achieved
by the year 2015. In adopting the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the member States of the United
Nations pledged to “spare no effort to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and
dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.”1 The focus of this report is on the progress made by
Caribbean countries towards the achievement of Goal 1: the eradication of extreme poverty and
hunger; and Goal 3: t…
Foreword In September 2000, 147 heads of State and Government, together with 42 ministers and heads of delegation, gathered at the General Assembly of the United Nations to explore ways of pooling their combined will and efforts to revitalize international cooperation on behalf of the less developed countries and, in particular, to mount a frontal assault on extreme poverty. On that occasion they identified goals for their efforts to combat poverty and hunger, reverse environmental degradation, achieve improvements in the fields of education and health, and promote gender equality.…
Prólogo En septiembre del 2000, los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de 147 países y 42 ministros y jefes de delegación se reunieron en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas para emprender la tarea de determinar cómo mancomunar sus voluntades y su compromiso de realizar un esfuerzo conjunto para revitalizar la cooperación internacional destinada a los países menos desarrollados y, en especial, a combatir decisivamente la pobreza extrema. En esa oportunidad, se identificaron objetivos que apuntan a la lucha contra la pobreza y el hambre, la reversión del deterioro ambiental, el …
16 de Marzo de 2022
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Evento (Reuniones y seminarios técnicos)
El evento será una oportunidad para mostrar experiencias a nivel nacional y subnacional sobre cómo construir procesos de políticas de cambio climático sensibles al género, y destacará los esfuerzos para fortalecer los procesos regionales para la cooperación Sur-Sur en género, cambio climático y conservación ambiental.…
26 - 27 de Marzo de 2025
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is an opportunity to galvanize action aimed at promoting greater inclusion of youth in all spheres. This roadmap recognizes in several of its goals the centrality of the full incorporation of youth as a necessary condition to move towards more inclusive societies, in which no one is left behind, on a path to sustainable development. However, youth in the Caribbean face many challenges that need to be addressed as precursors to creating environments that enable them to reach their maximum potential to contribute to the achievement of SDGs by 2030, the…
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