goal also includes indicators on the share of women in wage employment in the nonagricultural sector and in national parliaments but these do not have benchmarks or deadlines critical issues such as violence against women and discriminatory laws are not addressed unfortunately at the highlevel plenary meeting of the general assembly on the millennium development goals it was revealed to be the most off track of all of the goals despite the fact that the knowledge and the tools are available to make pregnancy and childbirth a safe experience for women in the secretarygeneral launched the global strategy for womens and childrens health setting out key actions to improve the health of women and children worldwide