Full Coverage: MDGs

29.08.2007 In a letter to the Indian states’ chief ministers, the prime minister urged to prepare time-bound action plans for providing reasonable and affordable basic services to the urban poor in all major cities.

27.08.2007 Thousands of workers and their families have been suffering for the last four years due the closure of numerous tea estates in North Bengal, India.

21.08.2007 Save the Children in Sri Lanka and Save the Children Sweden launched their latest publication ‘Bridging the Gap’. The documentation is an important contribution to the development of Save the Children's understanding of the immediate living environment on the protection and care of children in emergencies.

21.08.2007 Derfu on yksi yhdysvaltalaisen professori Jeffrey Sachsin käynnistämän vuosituhatkylähankkeen tutkimuskylistä. Vuosituhathanke käynnistyi Dertussa yhdeksän kuukautta sitten. Sinä aikana Dertun kylä on ottanut edistysaskeleita. Terveydenhuolto on kohentunut, hyttysverkot ovat vähentäneet malaria-tapauksia ja kyläläiset ovat oppineet kasvattamaan ja varastoimaan heinää.

20.08.2007 Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the head of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) was interviewed by Sanctuary Asia, on climate change. He discussed on how this could affect India and suggests steps to adapt to and mitigate climate threats.

20.08.2007 International child rights agency, Save the Children has conducted a study to understand minimum standards for the provision of education in Andhra Pradesh, India. The study discovered the problems in the implementation of necessary components as, physical infrastructure, learning process, and community role in effective delivery of quality education.

08.08.2007 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his first speech to the UN warns that the UN is a "million miles" from meeting its promises to meet MDG goals by 2015.