United Nations Millenium Development Goals

Lately I've been wondering what the global humanitarian organizations are doing concerning maternal and infant health.  I've only scratched the surface in researching this topic, but today I found the eight United Nations Millenium Development Goals, derived from the Millenium Declaration in 2000.  The goals concern the world's primary development issues and are to be achieved by 2015.  Check out goal 5, and it's (cute) symbol. 

 

Here is some more news and information related to goal 5.