Social Development
/Gender
- Sat Apr 12 2008
FAO’s gender position
This public statement is important to ensure that for 2009 FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) regional office declares the Gender Position as permanent, well resourced and strong mechanism for FAO.
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Social Development
- Fri Mar 28 2008
Call of La Via Campesina for April 17th
The 17th of April is the International Peasant's Struggle Day, established after the massacre of 19 landless peasants belonging to the Landless Movement (MST) in Brazil on the 17th of April 1996 during the second conference of La Via Campesina in Tlaxcala Mexico.
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Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Wed Mar 26 2008
ECOSOC NGO Forum
The ECOSOC NGO Forum will take place in the ECOSOC Chambers, United Nations Headquarters in New York on 4 April 2008. The theme for this year is "the Role of Civil Society in Promoting Sustainable Development and the New International Aid Architecture".
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Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Fri Nov 23 2007
Concerns about Financing for Development presented to High Level Dialogue
As part of the UN's Financing for Development process, the General Assembly recently held a High Level Dialogue. AWID's Cecilia Alemany gave a speech on behalf of civil society organisations presenting some points for consideration.
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Social Development
- Wed Nov 21 2007
Wal-Mart faces accusations of anti-union practices in Argentina
Wal-Mart's aggressive efforts to keep labor unions out of stores worldwide have come under fire across the hemisphere. Workers report how the retail chain systematically violates international labor laws protecting workers' rights to free association and union organizing.
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Social Development
/Natural Resources
/Biodiversity
- Wed Nov 07 2007
Farmers call for suspension of Seed Treaty
Farmers' organizations who were invited to attend a United Nations meeting on the Treaty that governs the exchange of crop seeds for research and plant breeding told the assembled governments that the Treaty would have to be suspended.
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Social Development
/Human Rights
- Thu Oct 25 2007
UN relief chief warns on deteriorating conditions facing Palestinians
The humanitarian situation inside the occupied Palestinian territory is deteriorating every day, and Israel's threat to cut electricity and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip will only worsen the situation.
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Social Development
- Mon Oct 22 2007
World Bank's social security reforms hamper fight against poverty
Social security, a historically proved method to reduce poverty, is being decimated all over the world through World Bank-promoted privatization reforms, states the 2007 Social Watch Report.
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Social Development
- Thu Oct 11 2007
Access to Learning for Development
The Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning invites your contributions. The deadline for proposals is 30 November 2007.
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Social Development
/Gender
- Wed Sep 19 2007
Outline for Women's Tribunal Against Poverty
17 October, World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty, was created twenty years ago by the initiative of people living in poverty across the world, North and South, with ordinary citizens acting together to defend human rights violated by extreme poverty.
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