In its recent report Progress for Children: Achieving MDGS with Equity, which was launched at the event, UNICEF argues that if such inequalities were addressed, progress towards the MDGs and poverty reduction would be accelerated.
The sanitation target is the most off-track of all the MDGs, with 80% of countries falling behind their national targets.
Last month, his Africa Progress Panel report urged a "big push" towards the MDGs, with African governments adopting strategies to achieve the targets.
The UN published its final report on the MDGs with a warning that, despite successes, results have been patchy across regions and within countries.
There are eight of these so-called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with 21 sub-targets, from educating girls to cutting maternal mortality.
The environment commissioner, Janez Potočnik, said the new commission paper "binds together" the MDGs with the follow-up of the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development into one overarching framework for post-2015.
Although, as some have already pointed out,we still haven't clarified precisely what purpose the SDGs serve, it's clear that they cannot just be conceptualised as MDGs with extra ambition and a new timeline.
Strong demands are being made by civil society for good governance to be viewed both as an issue to be considered across development as well as a standalone target post the MDGs, with clear indicators to measure levels of "participatory democracy".
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with their holistic perspective of development are focused on different issues of vulnerability.
This article highlights the situation of women in disasters and the challenges in achieving the MDGs with special reference to India.
Accomplishment of the MDGs with respect to women's empowerment is closely connected to the implementation of the IASC (2006) guidelines that are not only important for disaster response, but for the development of underprivileged women, who continue to live in poverty.
