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As you saw from video and may be the website, the Millennium Goal is a fantastic goal, a very ideal goal. Today is in the year of 2009. There is only 6 years remaining for the goal; however, the statistics do not seem promising so far. This is because there are some flaws in the Millennium Goal itself, and the actions the United Nations take in order to achieve this goal.  Problems 1. A vague goal, an unrealistic goal 2. Wrong approach to solving the problem 3. No system of monitoring

First, the goal, as you have might already have thought of, is unrealistic. The United Nations is given 15 years for all of these goals to be solved. Now you might say, "What's wrong with setting high goals?" But goals are there to achieve. Now when there is progress, but it still quite never reaches the goal, people will become less hopeful, and less determined to achieve something that is so up there. It would have been much preferable if the United Nations tackled the problems one by one, with more realistic goals and a longer time limit. That way, when consecutive goals are met, people will be more willing to engage and help.

Target 1b: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people Target 1c: Reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger Target 2a: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling Target 3a: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015 Target 4a: Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five Target 5a: Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio Target 5b: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health Target 6a: Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS Target 6b: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it Target 6c: Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases Target 7a: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental resources Target 7b: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss Target 7c: Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation Target 7d: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020 Target 7d: Achieve significant improvement in lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020 Target 8b: Address the special needs of the least developed countries Target 8c: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly) Target 8d: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term (United Nations Development Programme)**  Second, the goals show no promise especially by seeing the way the United Nations approach the problems. Poverty, education, gender equality, child mortality are all problems that will always exist in 3rd world countries (countries where the government is still unstable). Feeding these people continuously will not get them out of poverty. More then just donating and giving materials, the United Nations should take more action to solve domestic conflicts. After all, is it not that the United Nations is established on the principle that it will keep international peace. As the Secretary General said, "A threat to one country is a threat to all." Third, the United Nations were gifted 63 billion dollars in 15 years to solve the global crisis. However, did you know that this goal was unofficial? Meaning it was made in the United Nations but no country affirmed it as it was not made into a resolution. Thus no country is forced to do anything. But without international state support, these goals cannot be possibly met. Moreover, how is the United Nations spending this money? Well, no one really knows. The money comes from countless Non-government Organizations (NGO) and only a little proportion from individual states. The United States require the United Nations to send an official report of how the money was spent (receipts basically). However, this does not happen with the 63 billion dollars funding the Millennium Goals. Time to time, a report does come; however, it does not seem reasonable that the United Nations will announce for the public when money was ineffectively used. Meaning, without the official regulation of how the money is being spent, this money could be abused by the United Nations without anyone knowing the aftermath of the money spent. Back to Home (Click)
 * Target 1a: Reduce by half the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day