Full Coverage: MDGs

30.06.2007 Youth Action Nepal is organising a rally and a concert at New Baneshwar in Nepal on July 2, 2007 for making governments accountable to people and achieving the MDGs.

30.06.2007 The High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, locked Developing Countries and the Small Island Developing States, Anwarul K. Chowdhury, who is stepping down, urged the world media to step up its attention on the needs of "voiceless" developing countries when dealing with cyclones, floods, prolonged droughts and other environmental effects of climate change.

29.06.2007 The mid-point to the 2015 deadline, 07.07.07, for meeting the Millennium Development Goals is just around the corner. NGOs worldwide are gearing up to press governments for faster action. In India, the UN Millennium Campaign and other civil society organizations are pushing the ruling UPA government to meet the MDG targets.

28.06.2007 GENEVA, Jun 28 (IPS) - Global civil society leaders called on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Thursday to use both international channels and their muscle on the ground for applying pressure on governments to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

27.06.2007 Recipient of this yearÂ’s Nirmal Gram Puruskar for 100% sanitation coverage, this village in RajasthanÂ’s Alwar region is paving the way for achieving the Millennium Development Goals

27.06.2007 An ambitious and innovative reality TV show - Haath se Haath Milaa (Let’s Join Hands) – by BBC World Service Trust, that played a vital role in India’s largest mass media campaign on HIV and AIDS, has won a World Award at the Asia Media Summit 2007.

24.06.2007 The Indian governmentÂ’s cash initiatives are sweeping a healthy competition across the country, says Jaipur-based activist Kalyan Singh Kothari. The Nirmal Gram Puruskars are part of the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) that hopes to achieve full sanitation coverage in India by 2012.

15.06.2007 Ranjan K Panda, an Orissa based researcher, writer and development practitioner writes about a Swastik school in Godbhanga village of Orissa, India. WhatÂ’s so special in this rural school is that there arenÂ’t any drop-outs and the school produces better students as compared to other schools in the vicinity.

11.06.2007 NGOs from the world-wide anti-poverty network - Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) - took stock of their mounting challenges despite global campaigns, mass mobilizations and country-level lobbying at the CIVICUS World Assembly at Glasgow, Scotland, May-end.

06.06.2007 Sama - Resource Group for Women and Health, a Delhi based womenÂ’s group, has conducted a research study on the multi-dimensional implications - social, medical, economic and ethical -of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) on the lives of Indian women.

03.06.2007 Can reaching the Millennium Development Goals give an improved life to the Dalits in India? Yes, was the overwhelming response at a recent panel discussion held at New Delhi by the National Conference of Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), a union of more than 300 grassroots Dalit organisations spread over India.

01.06.2007 New Economics Foundation has published a report on the threats of climate change. Using case studies, it warns that global warming could prevent the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and calls for immediate factoring of these concerns into global development plans.