Full Coverage: Poverty

31.03.2006 A key component of e-governance is to provide governments with a citizen-friendly face.

31.03.2006 Vuosi 2006 on YK:n aavikoiden ja aavikoitumisen vuosi. Ilmastonmuutoksen torjuminen ja aavikoitumisen estäminen ovat läheisessä yhteydessä toisiinsa, Suomen YK-liitto korostaa. Hillitsemällä avikoitumista estetään samalla ihmisten ajautumista köyhyysloukkuun, uudella aavikoitumis-verkkosivustolla kerrotaan.

30.03.2006 The Alternative Report by NGO War on Want is the first full exposé of Coca-Cola’s activities worldwide, and forms part of War on Want’s ongoing campaign for directors to be made liable for corporate wrongdoing. The report also focusses on the harm that communities have faced because of the company.

30.03.2006 India has sent the maximum number of entries at the Stockholm Challenge 2006 competition that honours innovative ways of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve people's lives.

30.03.2006 By the year 2010, every high school student will have first-hand experience with computers as information and communications technology (ICT) development will spread even to rural areas in Cebu province.

30.03.2006 ADB is undertaking an innovative project that will help the most disadvantaged households in Nepal to effectively participate in and benefit from rural development projects through a US$685,000 technical assistance grant.

30.03.2006 Though aid groups have worked hard to get emergency supplies to the millions of homeless in Pakistan-quake affected areas they know that their job is still not done. Millions could still be without shelter next year as the reconstruction effort is huge.

30.03.2006 Cotton farmers in the south Indian state of Andhara Pradesh are being lured into debt by seed MNCs by selling expensive genetically modified seeds which have failed to deliver a good harvest. Farmers allege that a black market has been created for the seeds, gifts are being given to farmers and even unapproved GM seeds are being sold.

29.03.2006 VSNL and Sify will run the RailTel express cybercafes to be set up at 82 railway stations in the current year.

29.03.2006 An Israeli company is using the latest water-saving technology to grow fruit and vegetables in Angola, which imports much of its food after 27 years of civil war.

29.03.2006 Good communication is vital to small farmers who need better access to markets and to reliable information about prices, product quality and market conditions. Can new information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet, help? The First Mile is a two-year pilot project supported by the Government of Switzerland.

28.03.2006 TB is killing more adults than any other infectious disease in India, says the Indian health ministry. An adult suffering from TB loses an average of three to four months of working time, affecting 20-30 per cent of the household’s annual income.

28.03.2006 Calls for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which is meeting at Curitiba in Brazil, to end its six-year moratorium on the planting of infertile genetically modified (GM) crops have been rejected. Though Australia, Canada and New Zealand backed the proposal, but opponents say that such seeds could make farmers dependent on MNCs.

27.03.2006 Britannian valtiovarainministeri Gordon Brown esittää, että rikkaiden valtioiden on solmittava köyhien maiden kanssa uudenlainen sopimus, jonka keskeinen osa on kehitysmaiden velkojen mitätöinti. Brownin mukaan velkojen mitätöinti on olennainen tekijä, kun kehitysmaiden köyhyyttä yritetään helpottaa.

27.03.2006 Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) has launched a new youth programme designed to encourage young leaders to be a catalyst for positive change and to serve as role models in their societies. The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is the only programme of its kind designed to support projects by young people between the ages of 17 to 30, who use innovative solutions to address social problems, specifically those using Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).

27.03.2006 Greenpeace activists protested in front of the New Zealand Embassy in New Delhi on Friday, with a banner exhorting New Zealand to 'Keep the Ban on Terminator Seeds'. The protestors also distributed leaflets to hundreds of passers-by in peak hour traffic.

27.03.2006 The world is busy exploring ways to tap the economic opportunities China and India, two countries emerging to be the world’s economic and technological hubs, offer. But Nepal’s ruling elites, as always, are engaged in alliance formations, in the politics of blaming and in playing these two countries on and off against each other without any regard to the nation and its people.

27.03.2006 While a buzz of excitement surrounds the World Social Forum, now underway in the Pakistani city of Karachi, veteran activists and political scientists here are having reservations over the regional approach to the global event, with some even unaware it was taking place.

24.03.2006 The Board of Kosovo Women Members of Parliament organized a national conference on the topic: "How are we organized to fight the trafficking with human beings in Kosovo". A number of international and local representatives and entities that work on treatment as well as fight against trafficking in human beings took part in the conference. The conference emphasized that Kosovo is moving from a transit country, which it was before the war, to a destination country of trafficking.

24.03.2006 According to a new UNICEF report, children in Haiti are more likely to die in their first years of life than in any other country in the Western Hemisphere. Citing a lack of basic services, environmental degradation and rampant violence, UNICEF applauds the newly elected president's public commitment to social change and child welfare.