The Fifth International Graduate Students Conference Graduate School of University of Gadjah Mada

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are time-bound quantitative goals to decrease selected aspects of human poverty by 2015. These goals are results of the Millennium Declaration, agreed upon by 189 Heads of States and Governments during the Millennium Summit in 2000. The MDGs are analytically framed with the human development and the human rights paradigm. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide a new consensus for development towards 2015. They aim to “address the problems of extreme poverty in its many dimensions – income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion, while promoting gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability”(UN Millennium Project 2005:1).  More specifically, the goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality rates; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development. The first seven goals are meant for developing countries while the eighth goal is for the developed countries to meet their obligations (IDB, 2011).

Please submit your abstract with a maximum of 300 words to the organizer. The deadline of the submission is on the July 12^th 2013. A full paper is required and has to be sent to the organizer on the 30th of August 2013. The articles will be published in the conference proceedings which will be available on the day of the conference. The proceeding is free for all the presenters.