General assembly sets fresh targets on poverty and environmental protection that will replace the millennium goals
The next set of development goals will be applicable to all countries and will be based on the principles of human rights, gender equality and the rule of law, UN member states have agreed.
In the outcome document on the concluding day of talks on global development at the UN's general assembly in New York this week, member states committed themselves on Wednesday to accelerating progress to achieve the eight millennium development goals (MDGs) by 2015, and then begin the process on creating a new set of targets that put poverty eradication and sustainable development at their centre.
The announcement follows more than a year of discussions on what should replace the MDGs when they expire. In theory, the MDGs are universal, but they have been billed as anti-poverty goals aimed at poor countries that are funded, rather than implemented, by wealthy nations.
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