Full Coverage: MDGs

30.09.2007 PAHELI (PeopleÂ’s Audit of Health, Education and Livelihoods) takes MDGs to the local level so that ordinary residents can understand how far they have fared on their social goals. This exercise has been carried out by the NGO Pratham with support from UNDP and UNICEF in 11 of the poorest districts in India.

29.09.2007 A recent report on Afghanistan reveals that social and economic progress is still a distant dream for its people as they struggle amidst military conflict. Over six million Afghans remain hungry while 60,000 children are addicted to drugs, the Human Development Report 2007 claimed.

27.09.2007 “Tourism Opens Doors for Women.” This is the theme for this year’s World Tourism Day, celebrated every year on September 27. It is also a call to work towards the third Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equity and empowerment.

26.09.2007 Global warming could impact one billion people, warned Rajendra K. Pachauri of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the opening of the largest-ever gathering of world leaders on climate change. Heads of states, top officials, civil society and business leaders from over 150 nations attended the high-level meeting on 24 September.

26.09.2007 WaterAid and its partners are using novel ways to educate people on sanitation. The community-led total sanitation (CLTS) approach has already had a huge impact in Bangladesh where open defecation is a common problem.

21.09.2007 The latest 5th edition of the Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) report, published every other year by the International Labour Organization, makes available labour market information, analysis and key elements. A set of 20 labour market indicators covers the various features of decent work deficits worldwide, keeping in mind the changing labour market conditions.

15.09.2007 Over 50 organisations and movements from all over India will meet in the capital on 21 September 2007, to conduct an Independent People's Tribunal on the World Bank in India.

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14.09.2007 With informal workers constituting more than 92 per cent of the Indian workforce, the NCEUS report highlights that the present government must work to fulfil its promises, under the Common Minimum Program, to ensure decent conditions of work, minimum wages, and promotion employment and enterprise in the unorganised sector.

05.09.2007 SYDNEY, Sep 5 (IPS) - As 21 world leaders representing 3 billion people prepare to meet at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit this weekend, civil society groups are calling for an instant end to poverty and the war in Iraq and immediate action on climate change.

03.09.2007 Climate change is likely to decrease food production in the developing world while industrialised countries could gain in production potential, increasing food insecurity in poorer nations, predicts the UNÂ’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).