Social Development
- Thu Jun 14 2007
Civil Society's participation and partnership in rehabilitation and development in Lebanon
The conference, organized by the Arab NGO Network for Development, the Canadian Fund for Social Development/Oxfam Quebec, and the United Nations Development Program, will take place on 3-4 of July 2007 in Beirut.
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Social Development
- Thu May 31 2007
Social Watch launches 2007 Basic Capabilities Index
Social Watch will be presenting its 2007 Basic Capabilities Index June 6 in Rostock, Germany, in the context of the International G8 Alternative Summit.
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Social Development
- Thu May 24 2007
Development as Accountability
This year's CIVICUS World Assembly, held in Glasgow, Scotland, focuses on accountability. The report “Development as Accountability” will be launch during the event.
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Social Development
- Wed May 16 2007
Poor could lose 67 billion dollars
Poor countries risk receiving 50 billion euros (67 billion dollars) less than what they have been promised from the European Union by 2010 unless the bloc improves the quality of its development aid, anti-poverty campaigners have warned.
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Social Development
- Fri May 11 2007
Global anti-poverty campaign to continue until 2015
The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) renewed its commitment to poverty eradication during an international meeting held in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Social Development
- Thu Apr 26 2007
Burma: Asian highway to disaster?
A regional U.N. body that claims to care about Asia's economically weak and marginalised is being taken to task for helping pave the way to achieve the opposite: strengthening a military dictatorship with development projects on the back of people under its oppressive grip.
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Social Development
- Tue Apr 17 2007
Peasants around the world celebrate their struggle's day
The international peasant's movement La Via Campesina is celebrating today the International Peasant's Struggle Day by organising events all around the world.
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Social Development
- Tue Mar 06 2007
Iraq: 4.5 million children undernourished
Apart from dodging bombs and bullets in their schools and neighbourhoods, children in Iraq are suffering from worryingly high levels of malnourishment, according to specialists.
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Social Development
/Gender
- Wed Feb 28 2007
Social Watch launches 2007 Gender Equity Index (GEI)
The 2007 GEI includes a regional analysis of the data compiled for the different countries studied and their evolution. While North America is currently the region with the highest degree of gender equity, it is also the region that has most regressed in the last three years. This is basically a result of the United States’ performance, which reveals significant regression during the 2004-2007 period.
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Social Development
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Thu Feb 15 2007
Over a million euros a month of European aid to Palestine wasted in bank charges
Over a million euros a month of European aid to Palestine wasted in bank charges. Oxfam calls on UK Government to persuade Europe to end 'aid fiasco'.
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