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World Leaders: Goals and School Education

world leaders: He launched the UN Millennium Development Goals at a summit of world leaders in 2000 to cut extreme poverty by half, promote equality for women, ensure every child has a primary school education, reduce maternal and child mortality, and halt the spread of AIDS -- all by 2015, according to CTV. Those goals -- only a few of which were fully achieved -- were succeeded by an expanded list of UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 that adds issues such as climate action, affordable and clean energy, and promoting peace and justice. As secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006, Annan saw as his greatest achievements the programs and policies he put in place to reduce inequality within and between countries, to combat infectious diseases and to promote human rights and protect civilians from war crimes including genocide. The updated list is a major focus of the UN's current agenda. When he became UN chief, Annan launched a doctrine of humanitarian intervention to prevent governments and leaders from massacring their own people. As UN peacekeeping chief just before becoming secretary-general, Annan shared blame for the failure of UN troops he deployed to prevent the genocides in Rwanda in 1994 and in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in July 1995. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.