UN: Kosovo is far behind achieving millennium goals
According to the second baseline report of the United Nations, released in Geneva, the Kosovo institutions are far from achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Kosovo, including poverty and unemployment control.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The Millennium Development Goals for Kosovo, adopted in 2001, imply eradication of poverty, hunger and epidemics, child mortality rate reduction, access to general education, promotion of gender equality and global development partnership. The U.N. member states have taken upon themselves that those goals will be achieved by the year 2015.
In Kosovo - which is not recognized by the UN as a state -- 44% of the population lives in poverty, while 14% live in extreme poverty. In regards to education, 93.5% of the pupils enrolled in the first grade of elementary school have reached the fifth grade.
The unemployment rate among the youth of the age between 15 and 24 is 66.5 percent, the U.N. report read. The mortality rate has been reduced in Kosovo since 2000, but it is still the highest in Europe.
