The goals.
The United Nations has established that by 2015 eight goals have to be joined; in 2000, some important organizations and countries have identified 8 goals that focus the attention on the main needs of the people who live in the underdeveloped countries.
The 8 goals are:
1) To deracinate the extreme poverty and hunger
2) To obtain a universal primary education
3) To promote gender equality and employment of women
4) To reduce children mortality
5) To guarantee maternal health
6) To fight the HIV/AIDS, contagious malaria and other diseases
7) To assure the sustainability of atmosphere
8) To develop a global partnership for the development
Website: www.un.org/millenniumgoals.org/
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz’s opinion(member of the UNPFII)
During the forth session of the UNPFII (United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues), kept to New York from16 to 27 May 2005, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, member of the UNPFII and representative of the aboriginal people of the Philippines, has written up a meaningful report on the tie between the goals and the condition of the aboriginal people. She doesn’t agree with the concept of “sustainable development” and with the connotation that, according to the aboriginal people is not absolutely positive, defines the aboriginal communities as “forgotten”. The plans formulated in order to assure the survival of atmosphere are at the same time unfavourable to people who live there and, sometime, they are just the aboriginal people that suffer because of these plans. The safeguard of the resources and the ecosystem promoted by the international institutions (and supported by the states) contemplates some prevention formulas that agree with the needs of the natives. A simple but effective example can clarify these enterprises: the necessity to guarantee to everybody the water for the rural activities brings to the planning of programs that, chasing the purpose, omit the modality and means used to obtain resultats. Many downpipes forests are destroyed in order to allow the rivers to devert and to arrive in the barren zones; such shunting line, not only is destroying the flora and the local fauna, but also is destructing the natural habitat in which the aboriginal existence is identified. The marginality in which the aboriginal people live leads to an unavoidable but not intentional forgetfulness of an important portion of the poor who live on our planet. The poverty of the aboriginal people is caused primarily by the subjugation during the colonization processes that have carried to a marked discrimination and a social exclusion. Individual and collective rights are denied to aboriginal people. The “nullius land” principle has justified the impoverishment of abitats and the resources by the colonists that did not succeed to civilize the aboriginal people.The oppressive legislations implemented by the states have reiforced the structural inequality.