Full Coverage: MDGs

30.08.2005 Every day 30,000 children die due to preventable illness and malnutrition. From September 14-16, world leaders will be meeting in New York to discuss the MDGs. The Millennium Campaign urges you to take one of three actions and lend your support to the 30,000 Campaign against poverty.

29.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 29 (OneWorld) - The Ugandan government said Monday it had condoms aplenty even as a top United Nations envoy and U.S.-based activists charged that a U.S. emphasis on promoting abstinence was jeopardizing the East African country's previously successful efforts to fight HIV/AIDS.

29.08.2005 The MOST Ngo invited its partners, colleagues and the general public to take active participation in the preparation of the National Sustainable Development Strategy of Montenegro (NSDS) and to contribute with their ideas, visions, suggestions and criticism, to the improved work on this important document.

28.08.2005 ‘While ICT can offer significant opportunities for all girls and women, including those in rural areas, their ability to take advantage of these opportunities is contingent upon many things’ says Radha Singh in an interview with Manish Kumar of OneWorld South Asia.

28.08.2005 As world leaders gear up to review contributions to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) at the United Nations general assembly in September, activists in Bangladesh focus on the need to make the MDGs more responsive to gender equality. According to them, it is imperative that governments integrate the implementation of the Platform for Action (PFA), adopted at the U.N.'s 1995 Beijing women's conference, and the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) into efforts to achieve the MDGs.

26.08.2005 Although globalization has raised women’s awareness of employment options and improved job opportunities – particularly in the service sector – lingering stereotypes and rigid gender roles can keep them from entering male-dominated sectors or accessing top managerial positions, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a new report.

25.08.2005 Civil society organisations are concerned that five years after the Millennium Declaration, there is still looming danger of failure by most African countries to reach even the minimalist of the goals.

24.08.2005 While the rates of maternal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean are not the world's highest, a worrying disparity within a small group of countries and especially among indigenous groups and afro-descendants exist, reveals a U.N. assessment of the region's progress in meeting the MDGs.

24.08.2005 STOCKHOLM, Aug 23 (IPS) - The crisis-weary African continent, which has two of the world's longest rivers -- the 6,400-kilometre Nile River and the 4,370-kilometre Congo River -- is suffering from a virtual economic paradox: a shortage of water amidst potentially plentiful supplies.

23.08.2005 The false claims by Western leaders at the recent G8 meeting will probably condemn the forthcoming UN "millennium summit" to be an expensive failure, argues Mark Curtis.

23.08.2005 On 10 September, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is organising White Band Day 2 – the second in a series of massive international mobilisations. GCAP will send a clear message to governments across the world that politicians must keep their promises to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

22.08.2005 Two international campaign groups have produced an online game to help increase pressure on the EU to give more aid for water and sanitation. Play the game and see how much EU money you can collect.

19.08.2005 Women's political and economic rights are given priorities in different international agendas only to enable women to build up their capacity in the decision-making processes. But what is going on in the name of election to women reserved seats cannot be called a political empowerment process for women.

19.08.2005 Two objectives geared towards greater gender equality were creatively linked in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in Lahore on August 19, 2005. They believe that by promoting and encouraging sports among women and girl children, the objective of retaining more girls in schools where they receive quality education will be easier to meet.

19.08.2005 On August 18, 2005, the South Asia office of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) signed a memorandum aimed at promoting gender equality in the industry.

19.08.2005 Donor countries are making decisions now concerning their contributions to the Global Fund which is facing significant shortfalls for 2005. The Global Health Council asks you to support replenishment of the Global Fund by signing the international appeal for increased and adequate funding by August 20.

17.08.2005 In the flurry of activities before the UN Summit, the worldÂ’s printing presses have started rolling fervently, churning out report after report, and, expectedly, the focus is zeroing in on sub-Saharan Africa. The Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) says poverty and malnutrition in the southern half of Africa will worsen even as it improves in other poor areas of the world.

17.08.2005 At the U.N. World Summit in September, heads of government will try to account for what they have achieved since 2000, when they set a goal of halving extreme poverty worldwide by 2015. Kumi Naidoo urges civil society organizations to unite and take the lead in mobilizing citizens for social justice during the summit.

16.08.2005 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on young people to hold political leaders to account for promoting development, an exhibition spotlighted the quest of youth for a better life and ceremonies were held around the world today as the United Nations system marked International Youth Day.

16.08.2005 Noted activist and the founder of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan Bunker Roy shares his views with The Indian Express about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eradicating poverty and the current global practices over fighting poverty.