Full coverage: Poverty

11.09.2006 Ainakin 2 500 kansalaisjärjestön edustajat kokoontuivat YK:n päämajassa New Yorkissa pidettyyn vuosittaiseen konferenssiin. Tänä vuonna kolmepäiväisessä istunnossa keskityttiin kumppanuuksien lujittamiseen turvallisuuden ja kestävän kehityksen aloilla. Tavoitteena on YK:n vuosituhattavoitteiden saavuttaminen.

11.09.2006 The issue of education of the Roma population is eminently political and will demand greater practical engagement by the state and its institutions, believes the National Roma Centre from Kumanovo.

11.09.2006 Prasanjeto na obrazovanieto na Romite e eminentno politicko prasanje i ke bara pogolemo prakticno angaziranje na drzavata i nejzinite institucii, smeta Nacionalniot romski centar (NRC) od Kumanovo.

11.09.2006 The State Government has done little to demonstrate its commitment in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) for the benefit of the unemployed poor in rural areas of five districts.

11.09.2006 An Indian government study finds that almost one in six ship workers at AsiaÂ’s largest shipbreaking yard, Alang in Gujarat, suffers from asbestos poisoning that could lead to lung cancer. At 2 per 1,000, the fatal accident rate among AlangÂ’s ship workers is several times higher than the 0.34 per 1,000 in the mining industry, considered IndiaÂ’s most unsafe profession.

11.09.2006 CARE India’s Credit and Savings for Household Enterprise (CASHE) project is one of the largest microfinance projects in the country. For the past two years CASHE along with its associates, has been organizing ‘microfinance India’ conference which draws attention of national and international sector experts. This year the conference is being held on October 30-31, 2006 in New Delhi.

11.09.2006 Yhdistyneet Kansakunnat kiinnitti huomiota oppimisen ja kehityksen väliseen yhteyteen kansainvälisenä lukutaitopäivänä kahdeksas syyskuuta. Pääsihteeri Kofi Annan painotti lausunnossaan lukutaidon merkitystä ja oppimisen edellytyksiä kehityksen vahvistajina. Myös UNESCO:n pääjohtaja Koïchuro Matsuura korosti lukutaidon olevan yksi kehityksen tärkeimmistä välineistä, joka kehittää koko yhteiskuntaa.

11.09.2006 Secondary education is compulsory in 144 countries worldwide, but even in many of those nations, the word "compulsory" must be taken lightly.

08.09.2006 Roma Scholarship Foundation (RSF) concluded that the ongoing election activities in Montenegro confirmed, once again, that Roma and Egyptians are not involved sufficiently in public affairs and social and political life.

08.09.2006 Santraj Maurya is a young waste-picker, who works in New Delhi's elite residential areas undertaking door-to-door garbage collection. Last month he was invited to a conference to Belo Horizonte in Brazil but was denied boarding by Alitalia officials. The reasons - he did not have the profile of an international traveller, did not speak confidently and did not know English. Read this press release from New Delhi NGO Chintan.

07.09.2006 This autumn, the Global Month of Action will see millions of people in over a hundred countries unite again under the banner of the white band, as they stand up against poverty and renew the call for trade justice, debt cancellation and more and better aid. The Month begins on 14 September, as the IMF and World Bank meet in Singapore, and culminates on 17 October, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, in a Global White Band Day.

05.09.2006 "Maapallon keskilämpötilan nouseminen uhkaa jo nyt kehitysyhteistyötä ja köyhyyden poistamista", todetaan Maailmanpankin tuoreessa raportissa.
Ilmastonmuutos aiheuttaa tällä hetkellä yli miljardin dollarin verran lisäkuluja kansainvälisille avunantajille menetettyjen tai tuottamattomien hankkeiden kautta. Kansainvälisen yhteisön tulee aloittaa ilmastonmuutoksen haittailmiöihin varautuminen sekä lyhyellä että pitkällä tähtäimellä.

05.09.2006 Amnesty International wants the Bangladesh government to probe impartially and punish accused security men involved in the killings of five people who were protesting against setting up an open-cast mine by British firm Asia Energy Corporation.

05.09.2006 The Indian Finance Ministry has set up an expert group to look into the growing problem of agricultural indebtedness and suggest relief measures for distressed farmers across the country. The committee will also make recommendations on farmersÂ’ demands for loan waivers, Indian Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar told Parliament on August 24.

04.09.2006 The endorsement of the Arab strategy document for the society of (ICT) was approved and the Council of the Arab Ministers for Communications was commissioned to crystallize the document in the form of practical working programs and projects.

04.09.2006 The natural disaster over, now lower-caste survivors of the floods in Barmer have to face up to the human tragedy of caste discrimination in the distribution of relief, sadly not an uncommon occurrence during disasters in India where help is meted out along caste lines.

04.09.2006 The first Delhi Human Development Report says that despite being economically sound, Delhi lacks an adequate quality of life. Still, most households surveyed in the Indian capital said they preferred to stay here rather than anywhere else in the country.

01.09.2006

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The Plan must have a goal of providing food security to all Indians. The public distribution system must be strengthened and made universal.

01.09.2006 Its an innovative and exciting challenge to set an official Guinness World Record Launched by the Millennium Campaign. "STAND UP" to communicate the greatest number of people ever to STAND UP Agaist Poverty and for the Millennium Development Goals - on October 15-16 2006. Within a 24-hour period, a minimum of 10,000 people must physically and symbolically and to hold their governments and leaders accountable for promises to end poverty by 2015.