maternal mortality. Significant progress has been achieved to improve access to
clean, potable water and sanitation, to reduce malaria, tuberculosis, polio and to
minimise the risks of HIV/AIDS. However, much more effort is required to totally
eliminate a wide variety of diseases and tackle many different tenacious and emergent health problems.
Goal 4: Ensure Inclusive and Quality Education for All and Promote Lifelong
Learning
Getting a quality education immediately improves people’s lives and provides the
stepping stone to sustainable development. There has been much progress to
improve, at all stages, access to education and to increase school enrolment rates,
in particular, for women and girls. Although this has increased basic literacy skills
considerably, more efforts are required to achieve greater strides reach universal
education goals. For example, although gender equality has been achieved in
primary education, few countries have reached that target at all education levels.
Goal 5: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls
Apart from forming part of fundamental human rights, gender equality is necessary
to maintain peace, prosperity within a sustainable world. The Millennium Development Goals has enabled much progress towards this end. However, the feminine
gender still suffers violence and discrimination in every country. Does part of the
problem lie in men’s inability to talk as easily and fluently as women during an
argument?
Providing both genders with similar access to education, reasonable pay for equal
work, health care, and participation in political and economic democratic forums
will energise sustainable economies and generally help societies and humanity.
Goal 6: Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation for All
Access to clean and potable water to everybody is important for everybody in the
world. There is enough fresh water available to achieve this. However, because of
inadequate infrastructure or poor economics, several millions of people, in particular
children, die yearly, from diseases linked with improper hygiene arising from
inadequate available water and sanitation facilities.
Lack of water, or poor water quality, together with inadequate sanitation already
affect food security negatively. Furthermore, across countries, this limits livelihood
choices and opportunities for education in poor families. In some of the world’s
poorest countries, drought occurrence further worsens the problems of hunger and
malnutrition. It is likely that by 2050, at least 25% of people will be living in
countries affected by regular shortages of fresh water.
Goal 7: Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern
Energy for All
What happens in today’s world when there is a power cut? All daily activities depend
on energy being available, be it for jobs, food production, security. Whether to
generate more income, or to tackle climate change impacts, access to energy for
everybody is vital.
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clean, potable water and sanitation, to reduce malaria, tuberculosis, polio and to
minimise the risks of HIV/AIDS. However, much more effort is required to totally
eliminate a wide variety of diseases and tackle many different tenacious and emergent health problems.
Goal 4: Ensure Inclusive and Quality Education for All and Promote Lifelong
Learning
Getting a quality education immediately improves people’s lives and provides the
stepping stone to sustainable development. There has been much progress to
improve, at all stages, access to education and to increase school enrolment rates,
in particular, for women and girls. Although this has increased basic literacy skills
considerably, more efforts are required to achieve greater strides reach universal
education goals. For example, although gender equality has been achieved in
primary education, few countries have reached that target at all education levels.
Goal 5: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls
Apart from forming part of fundamental human rights, gender equality is necessary
to maintain peace, prosperity within a sustainable world. The Millennium Development Goals has enabled much progress towards this end. However, the feminine
gender still suffers violence and discrimination in every country. Does part of the
problem lie in men’s inability to talk as easily and fluently as women during an
argument?
Providing both genders with similar access to education, reasonable pay for equal
work, health care, and participation in political and economic democratic forums
will energise sustainable economies and generally help societies and humanity.
Goal 6: Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation for All
Access to clean and potable water to everybody is important for everybody in the
world. There is enough fresh water available to achieve this. However, because of
inadequate infrastructure or poor economics, several millions of people, in particular
children, die yearly, from diseases linked with improper hygiene arising from
inadequate available water and sanitation facilities.
Lack of water, or poor water quality, together with inadequate sanitation already
affect food security negatively. Furthermore, across countries, this limits livelihood
choices and opportunities for education in poor families. In some of the world’s
poorest countries, drought occurrence further worsens the problems of hunger and
malnutrition. It is likely that by 2050, at least 25% of people will be living in
countries affected by regular shortages of fresh water.
Goal 7: Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern
Energy for All
What happens in today’s world when there is a power cut? All daily activities depend
on energy being available, be it for jobs, food production, security. Whether to
generate more income, or to tackle climate change impacts, access to energy for
everybody is vital.
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