Millennium Development Goals - target Year 2015

The goals

1. Eradicate hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV, Aids, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

To be achieved by 2015

New development goals will be declared from 2015.



http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/millennium-development-goals

June 2014 - Important Events Around the World

June 2014


1 June
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/01/lead

2 June
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/lead

After seven years of a bitter rivalry between the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, a historic Palestinian unity government has been sworn in , ending years of division.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/02/palestinian-unity-government-sworn-in-fatah-hamas

3 June
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/03/lead

4 June
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/04/lead

5 June
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/05/lead

6 June
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/06/lead

Hundreds of war veterans are participating in celebrating Normany landing 70 years ago. 6 June 1944.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-27700479

China's defense budget will be $145 billion says, US. US spend for defense for 2013 was $600 billion.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-27727486


Rebel forces gaining ground in Iraq

Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, China - 4 June 1989

On 4 June 1989, Chinese military marched to the Tiananmen Square ground in Beijing and killed the protesters assembled there in thousands demanding democracy in China.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-tiananmen-square-massacre-as-it-happened-25-years-ago-9481466.html


http://www.policymic.com/articles/90341/13-photos-of-the-tiananmen-square-massacre-that-china-wants-the-world-to-forget

The Sequence of Events

15 April 1989

Hu Yaobang, a communist party general secretary, who was deposed due to his pro-reform thinking and advocacy died of heart attack. Students came together to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang.

17-21 April

10,000 Students gathered at the Tiananmen Square with mourning banners and funeral wreaths. Banners in support of freedom, democracy and rule of law were also displayed. Next day, there was a demonstration in front of the Great Hall of People in support of seven demands.

22 April

3 students demand meeting with Li Peng, the Premier. Were not given audience. The protesters swell to 100,000 during the funeral of Hu.

26 April

The People's daily described the protest as the work of a small handful of plotters and call them anti-party and anti-government.

27 April

About 100,000 students from Beijing universities march to Tiananmen Square.

13 May
300,000 people at the square. Many on hunger strike.

19 May

General Secretary, Zhao Ziyang went to Tiananmen Square and appealed to students to stop the protest and go back to studies and take care of their health.

20 May
China declared martial law in Beijing. 250,000 military personnel sent to Beijing.

29 May
Goddess of Democracy Status raised in Tiananmen Square.

4 June
At 1 am, army surrounded the Square and cleared the ground by morning in five hours using force to kill people and evacuate them by arresting them.

5 June
A lone protester stands alone to block number of tanks.

6 June
Deng Xiao Ping appears in public and praised the military.

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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/594820/Tiananmen-Square-incident

http://www.usatoday.com/longform/news/nation-now/2014/06/04/tiananmen-square-anniversary-china/9908641/