The Millennium Development Goals were signed in the year 2000 at the Millennium Summit held in New York.
Previously, other United Nations summits had indicated the need to work on some of the issues that have afterwards been included in the Millennium Declaration.
- The International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) expressed the need to reduce child mortality, to improve maternal health and to guarantee universal access to education (especially for girls), reproductive and sexual health services and birth control in the Action Program on Population and Development (1994-2014).
- The 4th World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) (Beijing, 1995) underwrote the Action Platform that states the guidelines on gender equality, development and peace for all women.
With the international community's approval, both conferences established a base which would permit to work for reproductive and sexual health and which specified which resources should be mobilized and how to work on it.
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