Global Challenges and UNESCO
UNESCO should contribute, through its strategies and activities, to the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, in particular in the following areas:
– Halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty
– Achieve universal access to primary education
– Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education
– Contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria and other communicable diseases
– Ensure environmental sustainability.
