Full Coverage: Development

31.05.2005 Près du dixième de la population mondiale consommerait des aliments produits en utilisant des eaux usées. Étant donné la croissance démographique et le fait que davantage d’eau douce est détournée vers les villes pour la consommation domestique — dont 70 % repart en eaux usées —, le recours aux eaux usées est appelé à augmenter, tant en volumes qu’en superficies irriguées.

31.05.2005 OTTAWA – Si les recommandations du groupe de travail sur l’avenir de l’Amérique du Nord devaient être mises en œuvre, elles mettraient gravement en danger la capacité du Canada d’adopter des lois ou de prendre des décisions indépendantes dans l’intérêt public, dit le Conseil des Canadiens.

31.05.2005 Situé au cœur du Technopôle Angus, un carrefour d’économie sociale, le CECI vous convie à de joyeuses retrouvailles sous la présidence d’honneur de Sylvie Haviernick, ancienne volontaire du CECI, Présidente de la Fondation des victimes du 6 décembre contre la violence.
Venez revoir vos collègues d’Asie, des Amériques et d’Afrique ! Ce sera aussi l’occasion de découvrir notre programme Uniterra et toutes les nouveautés d’ici et d’ailleurs.

31.05.2005 The National Alliance on ICTs for Basic Human Needs is the nodal agency for Mission 2007 and has released its report Steps Forward on how to take ICTs to all Indian villages for empowering the people and bringing about development in the villages.

31.05.2005 Calling 2005 a landmark year for the continent as he marked Africa Day on May 25, Kofi Annan reflected optimistically on the continent's democratic reforms, poverty reduction, and control of the AIDS pandemic, noting especially the economic opportunities and challenges of war that lie ahead.

27.05.2005 OneWorld South Asia will inaugurate its studio - Ek Duniya Audio Studio - on Saturday which will allow non governmental organisations to produce development communication programmes. The studio will enable radio to be used effectively as a development communication medium and empower the communities.

27.05.2005 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today praised the European Union's agreement to substantially boost its official development assistance (ODA) over the next decade, with half of the increase going to Africa.

27.05.2005 Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and director, Earth Institute at Columbia University Jeffrey D Sachs, in his new book - The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time says that removing poverty is immensely possible within our lifetimes. The book, which has a foreword by Bono, provides a blueprint for eliminating extreme poverty from the world by year 2025.

27.05.2005 UNITED NATIONS, May 26 (IPS) - Jan Egeland, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, says he is livid that the international donor community has brushed aside his appeal for 16.2 million dollars in emergency food assistance to Niger -- as they have other urgent U.N. appeals for Africa.

27.05.2005 In an unprecedented display of international solidarity, 191 countries pledged to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015--but that step is just the tip of the human-rights iceberg, writes Yifat Susskind, MADRE’s Associate Director.

27.05.2005 Developing countries emerging from conflicts generally have high proportions of young people. To tap into this under-utilized resource, UNICEF released a set of recommendations Monday for governments, agencies and community leaders to use to encourage adolescent participation in community development and peace-building.

27.05.2005 Uzbekistan's Ferghana Valley, home to more than seven million Uzbeks, has seen it's fair share of ethnic violence and unrest. Mercy Corps programs in this volatile region are facilitating dialogue between local governments and communities, and helping the vulnerable gain life skills and achieve economic independence. Find out about three Uzbek women who are transforming their lives and their communities.

26.05.2005 The Dominican Republic - Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) is a threat to poor people in developing countries, said international agency Oxfam today, as the presidents of five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic are meeting with President Bush. The six presidents have just completed an unprecedented road show to convince US citizens and their lawmakers to support the Free Trade Agreement between their countries and the US, but opposition to the agreement is mounting.

26.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26 (OneWorld) - Activists are seeking to use a European breakthrough this week to turn up the heat on some of the world's richest countries to come up with money they promised decades ago in the global fight against poverty.

26.05.2005 The European Union agreed Tuesday to set concrete timetables for fulfilling a promise the world's richer countries made in 1970 to allocate 70 cents of every $100 of national incomes to aid for poor countries. The move, which would double European aid by 2010, is expected to give a massive jolt to poor countries seeking to finally throw off the yoke of poverty.

26.05.2005 In India, residents, political parties, and environmentalists are protesting proposals to build a new water-intensive Coca-Cola bottling plant in a community already suffering water shortages. Coca-Cola's reputation for groundwater depletion and pollution has fuelled suspicion of the proposed plant.

25.05.2005 UNICEF announced Wednesday a partnership with Proctor and Gamble to provide home-based water purification systems for millions in poor countries around the world. The alliance will focus on bringing safe drinking water to schools, helping families in emergency situations, and reducing household exposure to arsenic-contaminated water.

25.05.2005 Despite skepticism that they could ever succeed observers of the global debt crisis now predict that 100% cancellation for poor countries is within reach--possibly as soon as this summer. At the same time barriers lie ahead for the debt relief movement and developing nations even in a post-debt-relief era, writes analyst Mark Engler of Foreign Policy in Focus.

24.05.2005 The Centre for Contemporary Arts promoted the new internet site www.reka.org.mk, at the press conference held today at the NGO InfoCentre in Skopje. The web-site is dedicated to the Reka Region in Western Macedonia.

24.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (OneWorld) - The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) are preventing foreign aid from reaching HIV/AIDS programs in the world's poorest countries, according to an assessment appearing in a leading medical journal.