Full Coverage: MDGs

26.07.2005 Aiming to outline a new strategy for United Nations-backed development projects in Bangladesh, more than one hundred national experts and representatives of UN agencies wrapped up a series of roundtables and workshops today in Dhaka the capital, focused on helping the rural population to fight poverty.

21.07.2005 Speed debating, a new take on speed dating, is a simple and innovative way to have fun and swap ideas about how to fix global or local problems, says the Millennium Campaign, asking you to hold these social empowerment events and let them know of projects you have decided to work on. The best projects will be posted on the Millennium Campaign website.

21.07.2005 After a baby is born, mothers are entitled to maternity leave, but what about fathers? Norway tops the European league table of family-friendly nations as far as new fathers are concerned, and the government is now proposing to extend the "daddy quota" from four to five weeks, for exclusive use by the father. An ILO study reports.

14.07.2005 Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations slammed the door in Africa's face in Gleneagles last week, just as the continent thought it was on the verge of a breakthrough in new aid and fair trade, ActionAid has said.

14.07.2005 Though the scheduled launch of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty's (G-CAP) White Band campaign was delayed in Pakistan due to torrential rains and thunderstorms, the campaigners more than made up with their innovative ideas towards the end of the week.

14.07.2005 The Youth for Development Prize is awarded every year to teams of young people who have run innovative projects on the basis of the MDGs, in areas such as the environment, development, or peace. Do you know anyone who fits the bill? Hurry, the deadline for nominations is July 15th.

13.07.2005 The G8 communiqué represents a significant step towards meeting the MDGs - thanks to citizens' pressure and the British Government's commitment, says the Millennium Campaign.

13.07.2005 On July 20, 2005, OneWorld South Asia and British Council are collaborating to provide a hands-on initiation of NGOs to online tools such as e-discussion, e-polls and videoconferencing for discussing development issues.

13.07.2005 On White Band Day, July 1, some of the world's most famous monuments--St. Paul's Cathedral in London, a cotton tree planted by freed slaves in Sierra Leone, the Coliseum in Italy--were adorned with massive white cloths as part of global actions calling on G8 leaders to act on poverty. Take a look at the Millennium Campaign's photo essay highlighting many of the day's events.

11.07.2005 With the G8's renewed commitment to Africa, Refugees International President Kenneth H. Bacon argues former U.S. president Bill Clinton should be chosen as the world's leader in mobilizing support for the UN's anti-poverty goals. The goals, says Bacon, will fail unless headed by a leader who, like Clinton, can be both cheerleader and cajoler to rich and poor countries.

08.07.2005 G8 leaders have failed to deliver justice for Africa and their Summit deal will not tackle poverty effectively, warns ActionAid. But the organisation says the momentum for justice is growing and there will be intense pressure for the world trade talks, World Bank conditionality review and the UN Millennium Review Summit to deliver before the year is out.

08.07.2005 "An insult... a disaster for the world’s poor... lack of anything meaningful... woefully inadequate..." - the World Development Movement gives it verdict on the G8 Summit. “We are furious, but not surprised," it says.

08.07.2005 Asia's most impoverished nations, like Afghanistan and Timor-Leste, are overlooked in the global calculations of assistance, receiving less than half of the average per-capita aid given to impoverished nations in other regions, says a report by two UN agencies released July 1.

07.07.2005 "Unless we act now, at least 2.7 billion people living in poor countries will experience severe water scarcity in the next 20 years," CARE's Peter Lochery recently explained to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, urging the administration to come through on two bills passed this year that would increase funding for water services in developing countries.

07.07.2005 Meet the Malema family from Malawi, who are among the 1.2 billion people around the world living on less than a dollar a day. Boniface, a corn and tobacco farmer, and his wife Selina, who sells fritters from home, struggle to pay for their son's education, the fertilizers for the crops, and to save any money. Can G8 leaders help?

07.07.2005 "All G8 leaders have signed the Millennium Development Goals and we are here to remind them of their responsibilities," said 13 year old Reitumetse from Lesotho, when he and other child representatives from some of the worldÂ’s poorest countries met Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell at the C8 Children's Summit Tuesday.

07.07.2005 On the eve of the G8 summit, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (G-CAP) movement has put unprecedented pressure on the leaders of the world's richest nations to commit more to eradicating poverty and increasing aid for Africa.

07.07.2005 Today marks the beginning of the three-day G8 summit in Scotland. After months of hard work, the NetAid network has sent a clear and unified message to the world's most powerful leaders: we must do more to fight global poverty. The message came in the form of thousands of petitions you sent to President Bush, which joined the 300,000 letters collected at last week's Philadelphia Live8 concert. You also spoke through making thousands of cut-out 'buddies' to represent children who cannot go to school, which will be delivered to the G8 leaders to lobby for universal primary education.

05.07.2005 Changing agricultural practices, conserving natural resources, and stabilizing markets for agricultural products have helped some countries solve food crises. ID21 brings us these stories, and shows us how improving food security will also help meet the Millennium Development Goals.

04.07.2005 OneWorld South Asia embarked upon the 'Content for Community Needs Programme' under the aegis of Mission 2007, to address the information needs of the community. A meeting of various organisations was called on June 30 and July 1, 2005 at New Delhi, to take this forward.