Full Coverage: MDGs

31.07.2007 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have reached a halfway point but little seems to have changed, particularly for women whose lives are most affected by extreme poverty. The MDGs do not deal with the underlying causes for women and girl's poverty which needs to be understood in ways men and women access and control services and resources.

31.07.2007 Indian state Gujarat, which lies on the west coast, is celebrating a successful school enrollment drive that started five years ago to ensure all children, especially girls, are enrolled in schools. Through community mobilisation in 18,000 Gujarat villages the initiative has met with sizeable success.

25.07.2007 Indian civil society The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation (NJKF) is inviting applications for the Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award. The Award seeks to recognize social entrepreneurs who are pragmatic visionaries and the winner will be announced in December at a ceremony coinciding with the India Economic Summit.

24.07.2007 Panos South Asia will reward the 12 best Bangladeshi print and broadcast journalists who are eligible for cash prizes of BDT15,000 (about US$220) each, for investigative reporting on HIV and AIDS.

19.07.2007 DAR ES SALAAM, Jul 19 (IPS) - "I began walking when I felt contractions. I delivered on the roadside five kilometres from the hospital," says the 22-year-old Veronica Joseph.

19.07.2007 The Asian consortium of prominent NGOs, working on drug use, HIV, AIDS and poverty have announced the first Asian Consultation on the Prevention of HIV, related to Drug Use, on 28- 31 January 2008 at Goa, India.

18.07.2007 Pakistan NGOs are calling to voice the demands of masses for ending poverty on the worldÂ’s longest banner. The campaign is a follow-up to the events of 07.07.07 that highlighted the need to actualize the Millennium Development Goals.

17.07.2007 A report on the realization of MDGs in the state of Orissa was released on the halfway date, 07.07.07, at Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. The document has been compiled by the ‘Katha Rakhibaa Sarakar’ (KRS) Campaign and takes stock of the achievements in the first half of the MDG deadline while also setting an agenda for the remaining time.

13.07.2007 The Atlas of Global Development: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges illustrates the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through world maps, tables, graphs, text and photographs. The 37th World Bank edition draws on the data of development indicators and promises to be more comprehensive than its earlier editions.

12.07.2007 Economic growth eludes the poor in South Asia, according to the recently-released UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report 2007. The report says that over 30 per cent of the population still lives on a dollar a day in the region.

11.07.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 (OneWorld) - Government leaders across the world are being shamed for failing to keep their words on eliminating extreme poverty.

11.07.2007 JOHANNESBURG, Jul 11 (IPS) - What is a common factor in ensuring that women do not marry too young, do not have more children than they can cope with, do not die giving birth -- and contract HIV in smaller numbers? Men.

11.07.2007 Poverty is decreasing in Bangladesh but disparities between rich-poor disparity is on the rise. So claims the Civil Society Progress Report on MDGs 2007 released by PeopleÂ’s Forum on MDGs (PFM), to mark the mid-point to the MDG deadline in 2015.

10.07.2007 To mark the mid-point to the MDG deadline, 07.07.07, Delhi based WNTA has prepared state mid-reviews and a national level checklist – a ready-reference on the progress made by the Indian government against the key targets and indicators of the Millennium Development Goals.

06.07.2007 Anti-poverty campaigners around the world are organising a broad range of events around July 7th to mark the midway point for the UN Millennium Development Goals and to hold their governments to account. Part of the growing Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), the July 07, 2007 events will focus on how governmentsÂ’ efforts to meet these goals are insufficient and to highlight the growing threat of climate change on the poor and marginalised.

06.07.2007 NEW DELHI, Jul 6 (OneWorld) - Despite rapid economic growth, economic disparity is increasing in South Asia, according to the annual Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report by the UN, which also says that a massive 30 percent of the population still lives on a dollar a day in the Indian subcontinent.

04.07.2007 ActionAid has launched a new five year campaign to end hunger, starting with a call to governments to deliver on their existing commitment to halve hunger by 2015. This is an urgent response to the reality that the number of people going hungry are going up drastically.

03.07.2007 Hinting at increasing economic disparity in South Asia, despite rapid economic growth, the annual Millennium Development Goals (MDG) report by the UN says that a massive 30 per cent of the population still lives on a dollar a day in the Indian sub continent.

03.07.2007 A recent parliament committee report claims cancer, malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS as major concerns in North East India. The committee has called upon the state government for effective realization of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).