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 world’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.

16.07.2007 "Le persone con disabilità rimangono largamente escluse dagli Obiettivi del Millennio": lo afferma una nota dell'Aifo che insieme alle Ong e alle Organizzazioni di Persone con Disabilità che si dedicano alla cooperazione allo sviluppo chiede che "i donatori internazionali e gli stati membri dell'Onu usino questa fase di metà percorso verso la data del 2015 fissata per il raggiungimento degli Obiettivi del Millennio, per ri-focalizzare l'attenzione, monitorare e prendere attivamente in considerazione le necessità della fascia più povera della società, quella delle persone con disabilità". Ci sono 650 milioni di persone con disabilità nel mondo e l'80% di esse vive nei paesi in via di sviluppo: la gran parte delle persone con disabilità in questi paesi vive al di sotto della linea di povertà, ma gli investimenti nei servizi di base come la sanità e l'educazione sono insufficienti e si riducono - sottolinea la nota.

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.

13.07.2007 YK:n talous- ja sosiaalineuvosto (ECOSOC) esitteli viime viikolla uuden kehitysyhteistyöfoorumin. Foorumin tavoitteena on globaalin kehitysyhteistyön sekä kehitysavun tuloksellisuuden ja johdonmukaisuuden parantaminen.

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 People’s Forum on MDGs (PFM), to mark the mid-point to the MDG deadline in 2015.

11.07.2007 YK:n vuosutuhattavoitteiden pulivälissä, 7.7.2007, Delhissä toimiva WNTA julkisti oman arvionsa vuosituhattavoitteiden saavuttamisesta. Intialaiset järjestöt huomauttavat, että maailmanlaajuisesti vuosutuhattavoitteiden saavuttaminen on pitkälti kiinni, onnistuuko Intia niiden saavuttamisessa.

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.

09.07.2007 Saat hujan turun, atap bocor, kelas tergenang air, proses belajar mengajar terhenti. Ketika angin kencang berembus, guru dan murid berhamburan ke luar kelas menyelamatkan diri. Semua khawatir gedung SD YPPK ST Theresia di Merauke itu akan roboh.

06.07.2007 Domani 7 luglio è una giornata di mobilitazione mondiale per porre l’attenzione sui mutamenti climatici ed il è giorno di metà del percorso verso la data cruciale del 2015 entro la quale i governi dovranno raggiungere gli Obiettivi di Sviluppo del Millennio. Nella data simbolica del 07.07.07 (7 luglio 2007) vi saranno eventi e concerti di sensibilizzazione collegati all’iniziativa “Live Earth”. La Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) promuove eventi in 65 città del mondo sottolineando come i mutamenti climatici stiano provocando danni ingenti alle popolazioni del Sud del mondo. La rete Oneworld, di cui Unimondo è il partner italiano, sostiene l’appello e invita a partecipare all’iniziativa promossa dal sito www.oneclimate.net. In Italia, la Tavola della pace si riunisce ad Assisi per mettere a punto l’organizzazione della prossima Marcia e della Settimana della pace in programma dal 1 al 7 ottobre.

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 governments’ efforts to meet these goals are insufficient and to highlight the growing threat of climate change on the poor and marginalised.