UN Millenium Campaign
The UN Millennium Campaign is
an inter-agency initiative of the United Nations that supports citizen's efforts
to hold their Governments accountable for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. It was
created to pressurize the country leaders to live up to their commitment they
had made in the Millennium Summit. The Millennium Campaign partners with a wide
range of partners at the international and local levels to inspire grassroots
movements towards the achievement of the Goals through the citizen's movement.
Stand UP and Take Action
campaign
is a global movement of people no longer prepared to
stay seated or silent in the face of poverty and inequality.
In September 2000, world leaders came together at the
United Nations Headquarters in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium
Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership to reduce
extreme poverty and setting out a series of time bound targets with a deadline
of 2015 known as About Millenium Development Goals
Following are the eight Millennium
Development Goals that were adopted:
