UN General Assembly
2013

Goals (MDGs) and to decide what needs to be done to complete the unfinished business and enable us to make informed decisions beyond 2015. The Millennium Development Goals framework is the best development framework ever produced to address global and national development challenges. The world has never witnessed such a coalescence of concerted efforts into a unified framework. It is heart- warming to note that progress towards attaining MDGs has been made over the past 13 years. However, that progress varies from one Goal to another, and is highly uneven across nations and continents. Although extreme poverty has been halved at the global level, more than 1.2 billion people are still trapped in extreme poverty, which is a saddening fact. An estimated 19,000 children under the age of five and approximately 800 women die every day mostly from preventable and curable diseases. That is totally unacceptable in a world of unprecedented advances in science and technology, which could be leveraged to solve almost all the development challenges facing humankind. In a world that has enough food to feed everybody,