Organisations and initiatives
H&M contributes to the UN’s Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals are eight clear global development goals with a target date, to which the world's leaders signed up at the Millennium Summit in 2000.
Today the Millennium Goals are at the centre of development work around the world. The goals cover areas such as poverty and hunger, primary education, gender discrimination, child mortality, HIV/AIDS and other diseases as well as environmental sustainability.
H&M is contributing to the Millennium Development Goals through active environmental work with our suppliers, with water treatment and restrictions on chemicals being important measures. H&M also has a cooperation agreement with UNICEF relating to education for girls in developing countries as well as a project to halt the spread of HIV among young people in Cambodia. We also run charitable projects in the countries in which H&M's clothes are made. Among the aims are to provide children with an education and to give people access to clean water. Most important of all in the fight against poverty is the fact that H&M, as a buyer of clothing in many developing countries, indirectly creates employment for hundreds of thousands of factory workers.
Read more about the Millennium Development Goals at www.millenniumcampaign.org.