; Whereas the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, derived from the United Nations Millennium Declaration signed on September 8, 2000, seek to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, and develop a global partnership for development; Whereas the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs indicates that in September 2015, major gaps still persisted in development aid monetary flows to the least developed countries and in eliminating trade barriers for developing countries; Whereas, additionally, many people could not access essential medicines—generic medicines were available on average in 58 percent of public sector facilities—and only 32 per 100 citizens in developing countries had access to the Internet at affordable prices; Whereas the World Bank estimates that in 2013, 767 million people across the globe were experiencing extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day; Whereas according to the United Nations Development Program’s 2015 Human Development Report more than 1.5 billion people (across 101 countries examined in the report) live in multidimensional poverty according to the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), an indicator which provides a comprehensive picture of severe deprivations common to poor households including in health, education, and standard of living; Whereas the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that the number of undernourished people in the world totaled 793 million in 2015, equivalent to 12.9 percent of the world population and representing a decrease of roughly 200 million people from 1990