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UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development
Impact of the crisis on civil society organizations
The food, environmental and economic crises have challenged civil society organizations and the communities they serve. A broad-based survey, financially supported by the UN, measured the impact of the crises on the operating capacity of CSOs around the world and their expectations as they look ahead.
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Poverty
Farm suicides in India: a 12-year saga
The loan waiver year of 2008 saw 16,196 farm suicides in the country, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Compared to 2007, that's a fall of just 436. There were no major changes in the trend that set in from the late 1990s and worsened after 2002. The dismal truth is that very high numbers of farm suicides still occur within a fast decreasing farm population.
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Agriculture and food sovereignty
A question of governance: To protect agribusiness profits or the right to food?
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Financing for Development
Financing for Development and Women Rights: a critical review
This publication from WIDE reviews the current debates about development, as well as the background for this new aid architecture, and analyses the international frameworks for financing for development and women rights, as well as governments´ commitments for resources. It also summarises and analyses all the contributions to the aid effectiveness agenda from a gender perspective.
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Millennium Development Goals - MDGs
Basic Capabilities Index - BCI 2009
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NEWS
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Sri Lanka: five years after tsunami, many still without shelter
Tue Dec 29 2009 - Source: IPS
Sri Lanka's Reconstruction and Development Agency has since wound down as has the massive reconstruction effort. Still many are without homes they could call their own.
BCI 2009: no progress in the global fight against poverty
Fri Dec 18 2009 - Source: Social Watch
The countries and regions of the world are becoming increasingly polarised in spite of their international commitments to fight poverty. This is what emerges from the 2009 Basic Capabilities Index (BCI) published by Social Watch.
G8 countries show total lack of political will to address the global food crisis
Thu Nov 19 2009 - Source: La Via Campesina
The blatant absence of the heads of states of the G8 countries in the World Food Summit, held in Rome from 16 to 18th of November, was one of the key causes of the total failure of this summit.

Campaigns
Solidarity and respect for Popular Sovereignty: Haiti is calling
Decent Work Campaign

Cairo +15 - International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development Financing for Development Poverty
Global labour rights Agriculture and food sovereignty Social security reform The right to adequate housing
Millennium Development Goals - MDGs    

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