1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less  than one dollar a day

• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from       hunger

2. Achieve universal primary education

• Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, girls and boys alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

• Eliminate the gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015

• Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate

• Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

• Have halted, and begun to reverse, the spread of HIV/AIDS

• Have halted by 2015, and begun to reverse, the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources

• Halve by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water

• By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Who has signed them?
147 heads of state at the Millennium Summit in September 2000. This was a unanimous response from the Summit. By the year 2015 all 189 United Nations Member States have pledged to meet the above goals.