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In 2000 the United Nations adopted eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Although these goals were directly relevant to people with disabilities, this group was not mentioned in the Goals or their implementation plans. This was a concern within the disability community.
After the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012, an international agreement was reached to create a new set of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to guide the path of sustainable development in the world after 2015. The 17 SDGs – including ending poverty and hunger and ensuring healthy lives, inclusive education and other opportunities – and their detailed targets were adopted in the autumn of 2015.
Once again, disability itself is not explicitly mentioned in the SDGs, except in some references to the need for data specific to marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities. It is to be hoped that, as the SDGs are implemented, no person with disabilities will be left behind.
