Full Coverage: MDGs

30.06.2006 For countless children and teenagers around the world football is more than just a game. It helps build relationships, it often allows children to overcome trauma by having fun and it's a way to ensure they grow up healthy, and full of self-esteem. Find out more.

28.06.2006 Fabio Pipinato della Fondazione Fontana interviene in merito al recente pronunciamento della Corte Costituzionale che contesta alcuni articoli della legge della Provincia Autonoma di Trento 15 marzo 2004 in materia di “Azioni ed interventi della solidarietà internazionale” e specificamente sulla possibilità della Provincia Autonoma di attuare alcune modalità di “cooperazione decentrata”. La delibera contesta la scelta dei Paesi e ribadisce che la cooperazione decentrata attiene alla cooperazione allo sviluppo che, a sua volta, attiene alla cooperazione internazionale e che, a sua volta ancora, attiene alla politica estera e che, dunque, è di competenza dello Stato. “La verità è che la Corte costituzionale non s’è sbagliata” - scrive Pipinato. “Ha applicato fedelmente la legge 49 che appartiene, in termini di relazioni internazionali, allo scorso Millennio quand’eravamo reduci dalla “Sacra missione civilizzatrice dei popoli”. Lo Stato burocrate, armato, confinario, sovrano, accentratore, retorico e solidale non può riconoscere altri tipi di “relazioni internazionali” se non le proprie”.

28.06.2006 Oil wars, water wars, land wars, atmospheric wars: this is the real face of economic globalisation, whose appetite for resources is exceeding the limits of sustainability and justice, writes Vandana Shiva, an author and international campaigner for women and the environment.

28.06.2006 The India-Pakistan border is increasingly being used for smuggling narcotics into India, a senior United Nations official said.Addressing a press conference to mark the release of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2006 World Drug Report here, Gary Lewis, UNODC Representative for South Asia, said increased trans-border civilian movement could be one of the reasons.

27.06.2006 Upgrading skills did not result in solving the educated unemployment problem in India and Sri Lanka. South Asian economies or particularly those sectors of economies that employ educated people, did not expand much. There was also a mismatch between the qualities of labour force demanded by the market and those that were supplied by the systems of education and training.

27.06.2006 Appointment of good teachers is the key to success of any institution, and only the best should be appointed, the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, has said. He also said that good teachers are the key to well-educated students. To achieve better education, we have to begin with teachers.

27.06.2006 Four months after the launch of the landmark job guarantee scheme, a nationwide study reveals that only 30% of those registering for the scheme have received job cards. Women, minorities, the elderly and the physically-challenged are not even being allowed to register

27.06.2006 Deepening income inequalities in South Asian countries may impede the recent strong economic growth witnessed in the region, a new World Bank report cautioned.

27.06.2006 South Asia could cut poverty much further in the coming decade if it grows at a faster pace than in the past 10 years and ensures prosperity is more evenly distributed, a World Bank report said.

27.06.2006 This report is a comprehensive collection of twelve research papers on trade- related topics relevant to the development concerns of South Asian countries .Each paper deal with different aspects of the debate surrounding trade and development issues in South Asia.

27.06.2006 Vancouver, Canada: Mayors from around the world gathering at the World Urban Forum pledged to use their power, influence and voice to mobilize the political will needed to meet the globally agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of eight concrete goals aimed at reversing the worst aspects of global poverty by 2015.

26.06.2006 Building on recent strong growth, countries in South Asia can dramatically reduce poverty by embracing policies aimed at increasing investment and productivity, and improving the quality of labor, while addressing pervasive income inequalities and poor service delivery, according to Economic Growth in South Asia, a World Bank report.

26.06.2006 UNESCO has offered to support the IT dissemination project of the State, Akshaya, in view of its potential to facilitate women's empowerment. The contents proposed to be developed relate to legal guidance, career guidance, Government schemes, health and welfare of mothers and children. Select Akshaya centres will receive aid, which includes research and training.

26.06.2006 Earlier, there were no 'outside' fertilisers or seeds. There were no (plant) diseases and we were happy", recalls 83-year-old Chandrappa, farming for the last 60 years on his family's five acres in the black cotton-soil heartland of this southern Indian State.

23.06.2006 The achievement of the MDGs, in the case of Nicaragua - as in the case of many developing countries - is severely constrained by the relationship of the country with the IMF. It is estimated that under current IMF conditionalities only half of the MDG targets will be met in Nicaragua.

23.06.2006 A Press Release issued by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Miloon Kothari, from the World Urban Forum (19-23 June 2006) in Vancouver says that forced evictions by governments in the name of development are causing homelessness, displacement and human tragedy worldwide.

23.06.2006 une 23, 2006 Thousands of villagers, panchayat representatives and women from marginalised communities. flagged off rozgar adhikar yatra from Palia in Lakhimpur Kheri district in terai region of Uttar Pradesh. presence of Hamida Bano president of Rashtriya Mahilla Evam Yuva Uthan Samiti flagged off the yatra.

23.06.2006 A much-touted "development package" offered recently to the world's least developed countries is "rife with tricks" and could be far more limited than originally publicised because the United States maintains the right to deny the promised duty-free access to some of those countries' most important exports, a new study says.

23.06.2006 Worldwide more than 211 million children aged 5 to 14 are passing through different forms of child labor. Three million Nepali children are working under extreme hardship. Laws were made, but have been left unenforced.

23.06.2006 Community leaders from Mehdiganj in north India began a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. The leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly.