NEW YORK – The World Bank and other international institutions are promoting “reproductive health” as a part of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) even though “reproductive health” was completely absent from the MDGs which were negotiated in 2000 by the largest gathering of heads of state in history. “Reproductive health” was also rejected as part of the Millennium Declaration, a five year review of the MDGs, negotiated last summer in New York even though the international community came under severe pressure by UN agencies and powerful NGOs to include it.