In September 2000 leaders from United Nation´s member states came together in New York to adopt the United Nations´ Millenium Declaration, committing their nations to a new global partnership for creating humane conditions and reducing extreme poverty for all by the year 2015. This was outlined through a series of time-bound targets.
The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions: hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, income poverty, and exclusion, while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. They are likewise basic human rights - the right of each person on earth to survival, health, education, shelter, and security.
Since 2005, the World Summit Youth Award has been organized three times - in 2005, 2009 and 2010 - as a follow up activity of the World Summit on Information Society and its action plan towards the year 2015. In 2010 the WSYA Winners Event took place in New York with a special focus on the MDG Review Summit of the heads of state and government in September 2010.
Find out more at: http://www.undp.org/mdg/