Millennium Development Goals

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• ONE at 7522 feet!

  
  ONE — Authority: 488
  Last weekend, 600+ high school students from Lutheran churches across five states gathered in Estes Park, Colorado to join ONE in the fight against extreme poverty and disease. High up at the base of the Rockies, the Rocky Mountain Synod Youth learned about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and what they could ...
  5 days ago

• Africa Lags Behind on the Millennium Development Goals on Agriculture

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  The African-wide conference kicked off in Ethiopia on Monday with a report disclosing that Africa is still far from achieving the millennium development goals on agriculture, which aims to cut poverty by half by 2015. Around 100 African researchers, policy makers and development partners have gathered in Addis Ababa ...
  6 days ago

• President Jacob Zuma Says It is Unacceptable That Most Rural Communities in South Africa Lack Clean Water

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  It is unacceptable that most rural communities still do not have access to clean water, says South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma. Zuma, who was speaking during the official launch of the upgrade of the Nsezi Water treatment plant in Richards Bay on Saturday, urged local councilors to work together with Mhlathuze ...
  1 week ago

• India working well on child issues, but too slow: Unicef

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Progress on child issues is slow even though India has accomplished a great deal in ensuring the rights of children almost two decades after it ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Unicef India representative Karin Holshof said Friday.“All the pointers are in the right ...
  1 week ago

• The Millennium Development Goals Song: Tayo Tayo Rin

  
  Random Thoughts — Authority: 113
  I have come across this at work: The MDG Song - Tayo Tayo Rin. (No One Else But Us) Transcribed as The Millennium Development Goals Song. It was sang by big-named stars in the music industry. I was impressed by the lyrics, so Im posting it here together with the video. If we work as one, we could achieve almost ...
  1 week ago

• Nigeria: Zain, Ericsson to Fight Poverty in Rural Ghana

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 151
  Working with the Millennium Villages Project, collaboration between The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and Zain have deployed mobile communications services to fight poverty in the Amansie-West district of the ...
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• Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs

  
  Enklings Studio — Authority: 112
  Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs My rating: 5 of 5 stars I had been looking for a book that explained in detail all the issues of climate change, population growth, poverty and sustainability in the world. A friend recommended "Common Wealth" by the economist Jeffrey D. Sachs and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Feedback from the US-EU Summit

  
  ONE — Authority: 488
  Last week leaders from the United States and European Union met in Washington DC for the regular US-EU Summit.The team at ONE has reviewed the summit’s declaration [PDF] and picked out some of the key points.Overall the document contains some very positive language on the need to work together to achieve the ...
  2 weeks ago

• States yet to execute N48b debt-relief projects – The Guardian

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 151
  A Performance assessment report has rated most states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) poor in the execution of projects for which they received funding from the debt relief granted Nigeria by the Paris and London Clubs.Known as Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS), about N48.8 billion of the funds ...
  2 weeks ago

• Human Rights Ads (30): Health Care

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  ( source , a Make Poverty History ad) More on the Millennium Development Goals . More on health care as a human right here . More human rights ads here . Posted in health, human rights ads Tagged: ad, advert, health, health care, human rights ad, make poverty history, MDG, Millennium Development Goals
  2 weeks ago

• Yar’Adua okays N47.1b for projects – The Nation

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 151
  President Umaru Yar’Adua has approved N47.1 billion for the execution of projects under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) otherwise called “quickwins”.Senators and members of the House of Representatives will benefit from the funds part of which will be used to execute their constituency projects.Senior ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reps angry over MDG projects, threaten 2010 allocations – The Guardian

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 151
  The House of Representatives yesterday resolved that no financial allocation would be made to ministries and parastatals in the 2010 budget if they failed to execute the projects in the 2009 appropriation.It summoned the Accountant-General of the Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwabo, over the performance of the 2009 ...
  3 weeks ago

• NCCA-UNRC Film Competition on the Millennium Development Goals [Deadline: November 17, 2009]

  
  PINOYWORLD Philippines | Pinoy Blogger's Official Blog — Authority: 415
  NCCA-UNRC Film Competition on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) for a minimum of three (3) minutes and maximum of five (5) minutes is on for gurus as well as budding filmmakers. There are eight (8) categories focused on the eight (8) MDG’s are: where problem and solution are creatively integrated to give ...
  3 weeks ago

• Norway to fund UN project for women’s role in panchayats

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) The Norwegian government Wednesday signed an agreement to grant the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) $9 million for strengthening participation of women in local governance in India.The partnership agreement was signed by UNIFEM executive director Ines Alberdi and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Global Working Session in Italy Aims not only to Commemorate UN Fourth World Conference on Women, but to Breakthrough

  
  Vital Voices Blog — Authority: 130
  From October 31 through November 2, 2009, Vital Voices will host “Breakthrough: Overcoming the Obstacles to Equality, Development and Peace,” which will convene an extraordinary group of 50 individuals at New York University’s Villa La Pietra campus in Florence, Italy to engage in an interactive working session ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nigerian House of Representatives Speaker Calls for Stronger Climate Change Action

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  The Speaker of Nigeria’s lower legislative body, the House of Representative, Dimeji Bankole, has called for a more urgent and systematic action to face the challenges of climate change. In a message on the 2009 United Nation’s Day celebration in Abuja on Monday, Speaker Bankole said the effects of climate change ...
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• The UN Tackles Violence Against Women

  
  Vital Voices Blog — Authority: 130
  The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women publishes a quarterly newsletter describing how the UN is working to end violence against women around the world.Here are a few highlights from the October edition:The General Assembly adopted a resolution on September 14 creating a new agency specifically for ...
  4 weeks ago

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