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WFWO's Team in the field ActionCreated on August 4, 2008 at 3:37am
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The UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) launched a website to inspire individual efforts aimed at eradicating violence against women, such as reaching out to school students, volunteering at local shelters, advocating for legislation or donating funds for programmes that protect women and girls.
■GLOBAL United Nations - Countries emerging from conflict need more international assistance to rebuild their food production, since hunger and scarcity may prompt a return to fighting, United Nations and development officials warned this week. ...
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“Despite some notable achievements, progress is off track across the continent,” she told the Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that nutrition levels of rural Tajik children “has been deteriorating significantly,” with the percentage of children under the ...
■GLOBAL Climate Change - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says a legally binding document no longer is a likely outcome for UN treaty discussions in Copenhagen over global climate change, saying voluntary targets were a more plausible goal. ...
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The first vaccine against malaria is likely to be distributed in Africa from 2015 after the “milestone moment” of the continent’s largest final-stage drug trial, scientists have told The Times.
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The international community must act now to deliver nutritious food to the billion people that are undernourished, says an editorial in The Lancet, as governments prepare for the World Summit on Food Security later this month.The world currently produces enough food to feed everyone. ...
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Much of the talking at climate change negotiations ahead of a big gathering in Copenhagen in December has been focusing on emissions, prompting campaigners at this week's Barcelona meeting to point out that water is also critical to the success of any
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“Let us never forget than in the end, policies and laws are really about people and values,” he said in his remarks to the opening of the third Global Forum on Migration and Development.
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Typhoon Mirinae, also known as Santi, generated winds of around 185 kilometres per hour as it crossed the northern Philippines on Saturday before making landfall in Viet Nam early on Monday.
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■GLOBAL Health - The HIV/AIDS epidemic will continue to rage out of control by its 50th anniversary in 2031 unless drastic changes in how the world approaches the disease are made, according to an analysis from HIV/AIDS experts published in the journal Health Science. ...
