The UN Millennium Development Goals: A utopian dream for an equal future

The Millennium Project, commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2002, aspires to develop a concrete action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
The Millennium Development goals are the United Nations’ response to the new demands and old difficulties which the peoples of the world have to deal with: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; develop a global partnership for development.
This work seeks to provide a peripheral vision of the UN efforts to propose global actions in order to offer a better prospective of an equal world. With the analysis of strategies and plans proposed by the United Nations during the last years, this work aims, moreover, to explore the concrete implementation of the eight target, highlighting which achievements, failures and critics they have met.