UN MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL #1: ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER, and THE U.S.As progress in reaching this goal

THE UNITED NATIONS , MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL : ERADICATING EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER , THE U .S .A`S PROGRESS

INTRODUCTION

The United Nations Millennium development project is succinctly a response to the growing inequality between the North and the South , the programme or project seeks to abate the economic cum social deficiencies , like poverty , lack of social health services , poor living conditions experienced in the South and eradicating poverty cum hunger as evidenced by the MDGs . The therefore seeks to investigate and disclose the impact and progress of the MDGs and the contribution of

the United States to the attainment of the aforementioned goal . The is therefore not a strict analysis of the statistics , but of the ongoing progress of the MDGs especially the first goal in the South and in the United States of America

THE UNITED NATONS

The United Nations emerged after the demise of the moribund League of Nations , the UN was formally established on 24 October 1945 after series of peace conference from which the UN Charter was drafted by representatives from 50 countries , the name United Nations was coined by United States President Franklin D . Roosevelt (UNs page ,2000

The United Nations has been tagged successful in preventing another global war unlike its predecessor the League of Nations , stemming from these is a foray into meeting the needs of the South in the Context of the Millennium Development Goal

The United Nations in its outlook and composition surpassed the League of Nations , the UN is composed of 5 principal organs having different specializations and different projects , the principal organs are : the General assembly , the Trusteeship council , the Security Council , the Economic and Social Council , the International court of Justice and Secretariat . The United Nations therefore looks all embracing and complex as many sub-organs exist in the Central organs , carrying out different functions to make the globe a better place , like the United Nations development programme which is crucial to the implementation and monitoring of the MDGs (UN Chart , 2007

THE UN AND A SYNOPSIS OF THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

The Millennium Development Goals project was commissioned in 2002 , by the Ex-UN Secretary general , Kofi Annan . The MDGs purpose was to abate the trends of suffering and increase the conditions of living in the globe . The MDGs are divided into eight crucial goals : the goal to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty , which forms the basis of this , goal to achieve universal education , promote gender equality and empower women , reduce child mortality , improve maternity health , combat HIV /AIDS , malaria and other diseases , ensure environmental sustainability , develop a global partnership for development

The first goal is to eradicate poverty and hunger which states the level of poverty by submitting that in developing countries , between 1990 and 2015 , the proportion of people whose income is less than 1 a day , which should improve by the MDGs (Millennium project ,2006

The second relates to empowerment of people through equal access to education by the Universal Primary Education , the third is...