The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG), adopted by almost all of the world's nations during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, has become an important document of the modern millennium. This document has laid the groundwork of a global international partnership designed to ensure peace and security on the planet, to eliminate poverty and improve the wellbeing of nations, to improve the quality of education and healthcare, to protect the rights and freedoms of human beings, and to protect the environment.