IntroductionThe United Nations (UN) has been working for decades to make this world a better place to live. This is done by giving the leaders of each country the opportunity to present themselves and discuss global events on a neutral platform to ensure that each country's concerns and difficulties are adequately heard. Similarly, one aspect of the UN is that it alone monitors global events and, when the time comes, should intervene to ensure that such events do not have a long-term impact on the political stability of the region. In the new millennium, the UN took a very positive initiative by setting a target by which eight of the world's most critical problems should be solved. The Millennium Summit, as it was called, was all about making sure the world becomes a better place to live in which some of the global problems are eradicated through countries helping each other. The summit set eight goals to be achieved by 2015 and called them the Millennium Development Goals. This has been a very positive approach taken by the UN to ensure that the world is a better place to live in the new millennium. The success of the Millennium Development Goals The start of 2011 means that countries only have 5 more years left to ensure that they are able to achieve all 8 MDGs and ensure that they have made themselves a better place to live for their people (Ditton & Lehane 2009). A fact that must be kept in mind is that numerous major events have occurred that have changed numerous global aspects. Of these factors, one of them is the September 2001 attacks, which occurred a year after the conclusion of the MDGs... half of the article... IC: An International Journal, 37-48. Haines, A. , & Cassels, A., 2004, Can the Millennium Development Goals be achieved? BMJ: British Medical Journal, 394-397. James, J., 2006, Malinvestment in achieving the Millennium Development Goals: A reconsideration using ends-based objectives. Third World Quarterly, 443-458. James, J., 2007, Productivity indicators for the rural poor in developing countries. Social Indicators Research, 535-553.Rehfuess, E., Mehta, S., & Prüss-Üstün, A., 2006, Assessing household use of solid fuels: multiple implications for the Millennium Development Goals. Environmental Health Perspecives, 373-378.Williams, B.G., Granich, R., Chauhan, L.S., Dharmshaktu, N.S. and Wachter, K.W., 2005, The impact of HIV/AIDS on tuberculosis control in India. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 9619-9624.