Article Archives
2010 - March
- Hunger the common enemy of all Millennium Development Goals
- Global treaty not needed to fight climate change, experts say
- New laws allow teen mothers better access to education in Tanzania
- Sahara desert solar project becoming a reality
- Literacy non-profit growing faster than Starbucks
- Syrians anxiously waiting for rain
- Encouraging sustainable tourism for development in Maldives
- Fears in Uganda escalate over impending landslides
- Christian health organization's new delivery unit seeks to improve birth practices in Sudan
- Female peacekeepers empower Liberian women to participate in national security
- Developing regions see 28 percent decline in child deaths
- Project in West Africa teaches farmers organic practices, boosts business
- Gulf countries to invest in green initiatives for the reduction of poverty in LDCs
- Website to serve as global hub for ending gender based violence
- Violence against women hinders development goals
- Individual land control linked to women's empowerment
- Kenyan Farmers insured through mobile phones
- Lack of female presence on climate change panel draws criticism
- Guinea pigs bred as micro-livestock in DRC
- Non-communicable diseases recognised as major cause of premature deaths in developing countries
- New website to provide essential fertilizer information to Africa's farmers
- Thai and Vietnamese workers receive legal assistance and aid to avert poverty
- Bleak futures and displacement not enough to keep Iraqi refugees away from the polls
- Campaign to thwart polio outbreak expected to vaccinate 85 million African children
- Low-cost prosthetics provide hope to amputees in developing countries of a return to daily activities
- 'Peepoo' uses practical approach to tackle global sanitation crisis
- Mothers in Mongolia receive aid during 'dzud' weather pattern
- New 'Play Your Part' drive aims to significantly lower maternity deaths in India
- Rats used to clear land mines, increasing opportunities for development
- Zimbabwe protests over teacher incentives indicative of education decline
- Fallujah sees rise in birth defects
- StEP works towards finding solutions for e-waste problem
- Housing projects in Kenya give hope to slum residents
- Women in Rwanda promote 'holistic development' through financial indpendence and rights awareness
- Economic development causes forced evictions in Beijing
- East African Community not reaping the economic benefits of the Northern Corridor
- Dealers try to thwart conflict diamond trade in Zimbabwe, but loopholes persist
- Nigerian government takes action against water sanitation crisis
- Preparation for World Cup disenfranchises South Africa's poor
- Genetically altered mosquitoes could help fight dengue fever
- Concern grows for wellbeing of Chile's children following recent earthquake
- Haitian diaspora organization emphasizes cultural sensitivity and solidarity in relief effort
- Economic crisis now seen as opportunity for gender equality
- Gender equality stressed at conference on eliminating food insecurity
- Engineers Without Borders; a new twist on an old concept
- Cartagena Summit makes improvements to the Mine Ban Treaty
- Cartagena Summit makes improvements to Mine Ban Treaty
- Encouraging sustainable tourism for development in Bangladesh
2010 - February
- Education of Kenya's children at risk from current political impasse and corruption
- Substandard antimalarial medicines highlight the need for health care reform in African countries
- Aid organizations promote media awareness as a tool against sexual violence
- Despite challenges, developing countries making gains in technology access
- UN calls for international aid to thwart second Niger food crisis
- Sierra Leone welcomes former British PM to discuss elimination of user fees for maternal health
- Converting Namibia's bush encroachment problem into clean energy
- Development organizations welcome a people-centered approach to combating rural poverty
- Conflict in DRC hinders immediate education needs and long-term development goals
- Violent abuse in drug treatment centers continues in Cambodia
- Severe water shortages damage agriculture as drought continues to plague the Caribbean
- GHI engineers look to help Haiti rebuild stronger
- Encouraging sustainable tourism for development in the world's least developed countries: Samoa
- Providing affordable medicines to developing countries results in new challenges
- Aid organizations work vigorously to protect women as threat of rape grows in Haitian tent camps
- Global financial crisis derails MDG progress in Asia-Pacific region
- Engineers press for earthquake-safe infrastructure in Haiti to avoid future catastrophes
- Human trafficking raises health and economic concerns
- Menstrual kits aim to help Kenyan girls stay in school
- Tourism for economic development in Laos
- UNESCO report shows increase in 'calculated and targeted violence' towards education
- Disaster in Haiti continues unabated with long-term medical effects
- Dutch companies to invest in biofuel programs in Mali
- Climbing beans improving Rwandan agriculture
- Push to rethink poverty emphasizes real progress over statistics, growth over good governance
- Urgent matters on climate change are addressed by the Pacific Islands in Vanuatu
- New reforestation project to bring Kiri trees to Vanuatu
- Young people describe how climate change poses obstacles to their daily life
- New program promotes women's perspectives in development
- International officials stress the need for social justice as part of a sustained commitment to employment
- Massive vaccination campaign for measles underway in Bangladesh, signs of success already apparent
- Sanctions on Iran: harmful to nuclear ambitions or the general population?
- Sexual Violence in Democratic Republic of Congo exacerbates national AIDS epidemic
- New energy infrastructure in Burkina Faso will boost economic and social development
- Agencies push for inclusion of non-communicable diseases in global health agenda
- Western Sahara displacement results in numerous financial deficits
- Albino killings in Tanzania related to ancient tribal beliefs
- Tuvalu may be lost to the sea due to climate change
- Impact study examines pay-for-performance medicine in Rwanda
- Global fight to eliminate FGM continues on International Day of Zero Tolerance
- Changes to NEPAD secretariat will strengthen ties to African Union and increase responsibilities
- Rising cancer rates in Africa pressure governments to implement more outreach programs
- College student supplying Cambodia with textbooks
- UN International Year of Biodiversity highlights impact of species loss on developing nations
- Lack of funding may hinder relief for refugees and IDPs in Yemen
- Future of Small Island Developing States linked to coral reefs
- Food assistance needed in Djibouti after poor rainy season
- International outcry as Brazilian government grants license for construction of dam on Xingu River
- UN Secretary General launches UNiTE campaign at Africa Summit
- Haitian diaspora engaging with long-term reconstruction emphasize the need for leadership
- Microsoft and World Bank partner to boost development in Africa
- Hospital in Pakistan is a model of cancer treatment for other developing countries
- Marshall Islands sets an example with emissions cuts
- Concern grows for children in IDP camps as conflict continues in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Island states especially threatened by changing climate
- Women in Burkina Faso face deadly health care obstacles in maternal health
- Egypt leases land in Uganda to ensure food security
- Aid organizations incorporate Haitian culture into psychological first aid
- Fashion industries promoted as new source of economic growth for LDCs
- Alliance with Israel creates development opportunities for Pacific Islands
- Ghana aims to avoid 'resource curse' with new oil revenue
- Science and philanthropy help make strides in combating rotavirus
- New initiative looks to restore agricultural growth in deserts
- Tourism for economic development in Mozambique
- Afghan women leaders emphasize women's role in security and development at London Conference
- New partnership to boost productivity, ownership, and income for Kenyan and Ugandan fruit farmers
- International Breast Milk Project delivers donor breast milk to orphaned and sick babies in Haiti
- Rainforest Alliance updates verification process for sustainable logging practices
2010 - January
- Asian-Pacific LDCs develop regional position on eradicating poverty and promoting sustainable development
- India to receive $770 million loan from the World Bank
- Influx of IDPs and refugees in Yemen strains local economies
- Small businesses in east Africa receive additional funding to drive growth
- Tourism for economic development in Madagascar
- Uganda's proposed 'anti-homosexuality bill' a setback for human rights and HIV prevention
- Creation of national park in Cameroon will protect biodiversity and boost development
- UN launches 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report
- Local Haitian communities take initiative in responding to earthquake
- Israeli government's blockade on Gaza jeopardizes civilians' health
- Africa does its part to help Haiti
- First annual United Nations indigenous peoples report details alarming conditions
- Moldova confronting risks of climate change
- World Cup in South Africa poses potential for public health risks and reforms
- ONE calls on US Treasury Secretary to cancel Haiti's debt
- 'Man Up' campaign to mobilize youth against gender violence
- Bolivia planning new climate change conference
- UNIFEM announces new grants to empower women across the globe
- Tourism for economic development in Zambia
- Fourth Investment Summit on Climate Risk stresses good policy, not innovation, to spur investment
- Program to build legal capacity and professionalize justice system underway in eastern Chad
- Pointing to Mauritania, World Bank says significant progress made in preventing locust devastation
- UNESCO report to stress lack of education for millions of children
- South Korea increases loans to Least Developed Countries
- Solid response to Kenyan floods overshadowed by financial crunch
- West Bank sees economic growth in 2009, but hurdles remain to lasting improvement
- Food insecurity among children increasing in West Africa
- Haitians mobilize as the international community scrambles to bring humanitarian assistance
- Tourism for economic development on Solomon Islands
- "Desperate need" for assistance to Haiti while UN forces work to ensure stability
- Research to analyze effects of reconciliation on development in Liberia
- UNDP hosts forum for Chad's displaced to discuss development
- Study highlights link between obesity and chronic diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Gaza residents build environmentally sound homes under Israel's blockade
- Year of Biodiversity will emphasize new environmental commitments
- Humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues as UN agencies struggle to help
- After Copenhagen, questions about next steps to thwart climate change
- Obama reinstates Mauritania in the African Growth and Opportunity Act
- Nepalese villages receive assistance to combat mineral deficiencies
- Living off garbage: terrible for the workers, beneficial to the environment
- HIV transmission via transfusions in Africa remains high
2009 - December
- Tourism for economic development in Cambodia
- Marginalized farmers in Andhra Pradesh find support in the Timbaktu Collective
- Tourism for economic development in Senegal
- Community Bank helps rural Indian women gain status, safe homes
- BOOK REVIEW: Rethinking Africa's Development Model: With Reference to Uganda By Eric Kashambuzi
- Small islands, vulnerable countries of Africa demand deeper emission cuts
- International shipping plays important role in climate battle, says IMO
- China: looking beyond the smog to exploit new market
- "Land grabbing" creates tensions as countries combat local and global food insecurity
- Double diseases kill off bananas in Africa
- UN recommends "green" industry to save developing states
- Belize farm combats climate change through agricultural reform
- Local communities combat desertification in Northern Mali's Lake Faguibine Region
- African nations threaten to boycott climate change treaty negotiations
- Global warming could undermine efforts to save forests
- Illegal logging in Madagascar exacerbates climate change
- African countries unite to seal a "fair" deal at the Summit
- Climate change affects tea production in Kenya, European companies provide aid
- Bengalurean youth march for progress in climate change negotiations
- Red Ribbon Express launches HIV/AIDS awareness journey across India
- Prayas offers at-risk Indian youth tangible options for the future
- India, Brazil, South Africa encourage Haitian Community Project
- Amid climate talks, farmers receive protection against crop failure
- Corruption potentially a problem for Copenhagen talks, say UN officials
- WHO to strengthen tobacco control capacity in Africa
- Encouraging sustainable tourism for development in the world's least developed countries
- Caring for Malawi's orphans to build a more sustainable future: An interview with Dr. Harvey Sindima, founder of The Blantyre North Relief Project
- Salaam Balaak Trust offers glimpse into lives of Delhi's street children
- Air pollution in Delhi compounded by introduction of new vehicles
- UN agency enables eco-friendly business transformation in India
- Electricity access projected to worsen in sub-Saharan Africa
- Madagascar may be unprepared for upcoming cyclone season
- Haiti on the verge of climate disaster
- International Organization for Migration releases video educating youth about human trafficking
- Better water management needed by 2030 in developing world
- AIDS epidemic can be contained in the Pacific Islands, says report
- Ban Ki-moon: CEDAW convention on gender equity guides global mission of peace, development, and human rights
- 2009 World Population report links climate change to population growth
2009 - November
- Report on children and AIDS shows uneven progress
- South Africa: HIV/AIDS drops life expectancy to world's second worst
- Donors fall short in commitments to developing countries
- Illegal ivory trade detrimental to developing world
- FILM REVIEW: "One Childhood" offers glimpse at Eritrea's success in children's health
- International AIDS funding may stagnate in 2010
- New technology brings new options for least developed countries
- Improved health care could save millions in sub-Saharan Africa
- Kenya to survey gay men regarding HIV transmission
- Greater access to academic resources needed for development in the Arab world
- Congolese journalist speaks about DRC female atrocities
- HIV/AIDS takes on new face in photography exhibit in NYC
- Small islands fighting for immediate climate assistance
- Unfriendly business environment hurting growth in Middle East, North Africa
- West African coastline erosion tackled by UN project
- Vaccination distribution at all-time high, but access limited
- Peace in Timor-Leste aided by soap opera
- Preparations underway for 2010 biodiversity summit
- Palm oil production making limited progress toward sustainability
- Biodiversity loss quickening at alarming rate
- Link between environmental changes and human health highlighted in Harvard Report
- Kenya to use satellites to fight climate change
- Private sector takes lead in Ethiopia's development
- Sixty finalists of African Diaspora Marketplace grants announced
- "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" documentary serves as advocacy tool in post-conflict zones
2009 - October
- In paradise, disabled individuals struggle for equal rights
- World Bank economist describes new ways to increase trade in developing world
- Displacement of Africans accelerated by climate change
- Chronic hunger persists in Ethiopia, 25 years after drought
- Conditions worsening for Somalia's 1.55 million Internally Displaced Persons
- Developing countries' transition to green economies aided by UN report
- Posturing at climate negotiations makes small islands uneasy
- Least Developed Countries lag behind in ICT development
- World Day for the Eradication of Poverty highlights one boy's plight
- FILM REVIEW: Exploring historical and political causes of poverty in "The End of Poverty?"
- FILM REVIEW: "Where the Water Meets the Sky" empowers Zambian women, sparks dialogue
- New hybrid rice boosts food production in Africa
- ANALYSIS: Climate negotiations show disconnect between negotiators and heads of state
- Seed variety needed to stave off hunger in developing countries
- Growing prevalence of obesity in developing countries
- Child trafficking requires more attention, UNICEF says
- Zimbabwe building up public health system with Call to Action
- Report cites gender inequality as leading cause of hunger
- On road to Copenhagen, experts seeking most sustainable energy lane
- UN's outreach program goes global
- Sub-Saharan Africa may feel a 10 degree Celsius rise in temperature by 2060
- Ugandan reforestation project creates jobs, reduces carbon emissions
- 15 African, Middle Eastern Universities to benefit from computer technology
- Animal protection saves human lives in the developing world
- Children are the primary link to climate information for many vulnerable communities
- New report calls for cities to get smarter, more efficient
- Prospects for development in Central Africa increase with high-speed web access
- Number of individuals to migrate due to climate change impossible to determine
- Carbon trading hits East Africa
- International community must focus on developing nations in climate change talks
- Prospects for a green boost for African industries and economies
- UNIFEM working to improve women's rights, MDGs in Eastern Europe
- ANALYSIS: Measuring and assessing global agriculture
- Trees from the global South being burned for "green energy" initiative
2009 - September
- AIDS collaborate with climate change fighters on mitigation measures
- Women to play an active role in climate change talks
- Developing nations show solidarity at climate change summit
- World Food Programme partners with private corporations to assist in eradicating hunger
- Power off the grid: Solar panels empower the rural poor
- Palau threatened by climate change and ecosystem changes
- UN renews its commitment to Haitian development
- Gender equality takes center stage at Clinton Global Initiative
- Call for sustainable agriculture funding to be on agenda of climate change talks in Copenhagen
- Small Islands, Big Voice: Islanders make a splash in climate negotiations
- BOOK REVIEW: Kristof and WuDunn set out to create awareness and change in developing nations
- Sugar cane as renewable energy, alternative to petrol
- Hunger crisis in Guatemala worsens
- Rock band connects with non-profit agencies in Africa to make a difference
- Shoe company commits itself to improving African lives
- Non-governmental organizations call for bold action from leaders on health care
- Aiding rice production in Africa
- Thousands to benefit from food rations in West Africa
- Homeless World Cup sheds light on homelessness
- UNICEF calls for restructuring of child trafficking programmes
- Soil-mapping initiative could have great impact on climate change
- Child laborers in Malawi poisoned by tobacco they pick
- Eco-friendly sanitary pad production to aid women in Rwanda
- Ohio student markets solar power designed for developing world
- India-Africa pharmaceutical ventures continue to face challenges
- Global food crisis nearing catastrophe
2009 - August
- Gender a top priority in new U.S. administration
- Internews leads study on media and development
- African scientists take charge of the continent's scarce water resources
- New approaches to improving forest governance
- Gender center empowers women with rural newspaper
- United Nations makes headway with climate change talks
- Ugandan IT movement gets boost from Austrian government
- Research institute links ancient Indian thought with new technology
- New irrigation techniques yield gains in Morocco
- Investing in safe and clean toilets vital to curb deaths by water-born diseases
- Price regulations and conservation key to confronting water scarcity
- Climate change drastically affecting Asia Pacific
- UN Headquarters walks the green walk in Capital Master Plan
- Majority of women in Asia contract HIV from long-term partners
- BRAC-led initiative targets poverty in Sierra Leone and Liberia
- Biggest windfarm in Africa slated for Kenya
- Science at forefront of global battle against HIV
- Smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia to benefit from funding boost
- Cote D'Ivoire approved for first Clean Development Mechanism project
- Climate change draws attention to African forests
- Billion Tree Campaign encourages worldwide effort for greener earth
- Business owners multiply in Zimbabwe
- HIV infection in newborns reduced by drug treatment change
- Governments demand action on climate change, recent polls show
2009 - July
- Taking the blame out of mother-to-child HIV transmission
- African medical labs get recognition from health organization
- UNICEF Aids Children Released from Sudan's Liberation Army
- IFAD: Community-driven development will empower local organizations
- Urban agriculture key to alleviating world hunger
- Lack of accountability to women main obstacle towards gender equality
- IFA: Negative environmental impact not linked to fertilizer use in Africa
- Females most vulnerable to financial crisis
- Post-Traumatic Stress healing is key to development in Rwanda and Burundi
- Migrant workers face challenges in sending money home
- Inclusion of people with disabilities is top priority in Zambia
- Costa Rican Airline Nature Air is role model for responsible tourism
- Hewlett Packard initiative calls for improved management of electronic waste in Africa
- From polio to HIV, cell phones instrumental in Zambia's child health strategies
- African entrepreneurs get $1.5 million from USAID, Western Union, EcoBank
- Ban Ki-moon: Immediate post-conflict peacebuilding to be improved
- Early summer flooding displaces thousands in West Africa
- Indian female police unit sets example for peacekeeping units
- Maternal health advocates demand end to obstetric fistula
- New initiative set to open global patent system to developing world
- Gunter: Debt Sustainability Framework for low-income countries should consider MDG indicators
- Carbon2Markets launched by MSU to fight poverty and deforestation
- Economic crisis hinders HIV treatment, prevention
- UN sets priorities after historic financial and economic conference
- Disaster mitigation project employs thousands of Haitians
- New river blindness drug enters final trials in Africa
- Aid for Trade Initiative sees progress despite economic crisis
- Petroleum pollution poses grave threat to the environment and local communities of the Niger Delta
- To achieve MDGs by 2015, aid is essential
- Rural farmers among the rising casualties of climate change
- Knowledge sharing initiative launched by AfricaAdapt
- Media fails in reporting climate change to developing countries
- Future doctors volunteering in Haiti gain medical and life experience
- UNIFEM calls for better implementation of wartime sexual violence resolution
- Slavery in Haiti still persists with adolescents
- Cambodia Landmine Museum opens a window to the horrors of landmines
- Liberian women get boost from vocational programs
2009 - June
- Migrants need protection due to economic crisis
- Inclusive economies for women needed in development
- Global hunger affecting 1.2 billion according to FAO
- Maternal mortality high amongst Timorese women due to unsafe abortions
- Developing countries face financing shortfall, threatening achievement of MDGs
- Governments of the world gather to discuss possibility of expanding G-20 to G-192
- African LDCs contemplate the financial crisis and the potential for growth
- Developing countries experiencing adverse effects from Western stimulus packages, want to be included in budget
- Agriculture on African savannah possible means for economic development
- Ban Ki-moon calls on industrialized nations to help LDCs fight Climate Change
- New insurance model reaches vulnerable rural farmers
- High hopes for development financing forum
- Call for action to halt growth of slums in developing countries
- South-South Voices Volume 5
- Carbon trading is key to Africa's economic future
- Climate Neutral Network welcomes Ethiopia
- More accurate weather forecasting saves lives in natural disasters
- Zimbabwe's children selling their bodies for sustenance
- Children increasingly targeted in today's wars
- Health Impact Fund will pay for medicines with greater global impact
- Girls' education plays a large part in global development
- Maternal health at risk of missing 2015 MDG target
- African job market expands on the World Wide Web
- Development issues addressed at the Incentive2Innovate Conference
- Bamboo Bike Project to make transportation accessible to Africa's rural poor
- Restorative circles open dialogue and healing between Brazilian institutions and gangs
- South-South cooperation highlighted at Africa-Brazil exhibition
- Stigma is number one barrier to controlling AIDS epidemic
- Cleanup soap helps cleanup landmines in Cambodia
- Campaign launched to raise awareness of Timorese inmates about HIV/AIDS
- No change in WHO position on DDT
- Preventing mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV
- Chairman of the Nobel Prize-Winning IPCC discusses the human dimension of climate change
- Visionary Ugandan women facilitate rural ownership of development
- Global poverty targeted as the next "inconvenient truth"
- OBIT: World mourns the loss of beloved advocate of United Nations Millennium Development Goals
2009 - May
- Deworming drug used to cut HIV transmissions in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Developing countries could profit as the Year of the Gorilla begins
- Entrepreneurship in Africa boosted by Coca-Cola
- Combating one of Africa's most neglected tropical diseases
- Indigenous tribe uses technology to re-create traditional community support system
- Australia sets an example for turning national debts into healthcare funds
- BOOK REVIEW: Uganda's Development Agenda in the 21st Century By Eric Kashambuzi
- Child deaths worldwide reduced by almost 30 percent
- Ecuador leads on initiative to leave oil in the ground untapped
- Lesotho orphans in need, still waiting on Prince Harry of Wales
- UNAIDS Action Framework to bring more services to gay men and transgenders
- Aftermath of 2008 hurricane season still felt in Haiti
- Music group garners support for Africa
- Africans take a stand against tobacco use
- World's first tuition-free online university for students in developing countries
- Trade is key to solving the economic crisis impacting countries of East Asia and the Pacific
- Urban overpopulation a concern in developing countries
- Midwives are being trained in the least developed countries
- New stoves in Guatemala promote health, development, and environmental Conservation
- Educating officials to identify forced labor victims
- African universities poised to gain from the 2010 World Cup
- Lack of protection for children released from Myanmar army remains
- A Blueprint for Alleviating Poverty: Interview with Selim Jahan
- Toxic water threatens Tanzanian communities
- Marine ecosystems disrupted by ghost fishing
- Sustainable economic reform underway in Djibouti
- Effective vaccine is next step to malaria eradication
- KwaZulu leads effort on education for sustainable development in South Africa
- International Breast Milk Project helps mothers worldwide
- UN will not suspend operations in a case of severe pandemic
- Innovations in technology are needed to fight climate change
- Savings-based microfinance institutions emerge as most recession-resistant
- Developing countries face higher risk from H1N1
- Fair trade industry exploits millions in the tea trade
2009 - April
- Emergency measures launched in polio outbreak
- Complex emergency situation in Somalia exacerbated by environmental degradation
- Street education reaches neglected child populations
- Public awareness is crucial for survival of forests
- Effective malaria treatments will now be affordable and available to Africa's poor
- An ongoing struggle to fight hunger and malnutrition
- Improving maternal health for women in developing regions
- Crisis fosters innovation in development
- Growing need for new Tuberculosis drugs
2009 - March
- Listening to the needs of developing nations
- Lacking safe water, children face ongoing risks
- World Bank takes unprecedented steps to assist development in Morocco
- Tax havens leave least developed countries in the dust - will G20 do the same?
- Fighting poverty by increasing access to information and communication technologies
- Unveiling the mysteries of the world's tallest animal
- An emergency response: water, food, medicine, and education
- Feeding the hungry in Haiti
- Nothing but optimism for combating climate change in 2009
- Report predicts water shortages by 2025, calls for investment
- Family planning needed to stem the rising tide of fertility in least developed countries
- Women still underrepresented in Parliaments worldwide
- Another decade worthy of international observance has a long list of challenges to overcome
- Partners in Health combat Haitian brain drain in the country's poorest region
- Economic recovery means planning for the future, says OECD
- Mobile health saving lives in the developing world
- Zimbabwe gets back on track with education goals
- New avian influenza vaccine in development
2009 - February
- The death of philanthropy as we know it
- MHEALTH ALLIANCE TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- Making water 'saaf' in Pakistan
- Trash talking: Is our future in the dumps?
- Think tanks face a plurality of obstacles in the global South
- Buruli ulcer receives little attention despite its devastating impact on the developing world
- COMPETITION AWARDS CLIMATE ADAPTATION
- As European newsrooms cut back, the media in Africa is growing
- V-Day launches a global movement against sexual violence
- Reporting in the Line of Fire
- WATER SECURITY IS AN ISSUE IN NORTH-SOUTH COOPERATION
- South-South Trade and Development Bank suggested to aid least developed countries
- FEATURE: African leaders grow frustrated with ineffective policies and poor implementation
- ANALYSIS: Digging in Neptune's Kingdom: The First Deep-Sea Mining Project
- World Bank helps to combat climate change in developing countries
- A silent epidemic lurks among Nepal's women
- Operation Lifeline in Gaza spells success
- Spain stakes a position at the forefront of food aid at high-level conference
- Global Civil Society looks to protect the world's most vulnerable citizens
2009 - January
- Ebola update: Filipino swine infected and DRC outbreak contained
- Brazilian social transfer programs serve as a model for developing countries
- World Festival of the Black Arts launches at the United Nations
- llegal poaching threatens one of the most cherished elephant populations
- IN DEPTH: Cassava's link to iodine deficiency requires further study
- Public health aid deteriorating as attacks on Gaza continue
2008 - December
- South-South Approaches to Innovative Health Solutions
- Paradise lost: When climate change leaves millions without a home
- Feral camel population threatens the ecological well-being of Australia's heartland
- A market-based approach to sustainable development
- Finding solutions for the South in public-private partnerships
- Towards South-South and triangular cooperation
- PRESS RELEASE: First-ever Global South-South Development Expo underscores importance of cooperation and innovation
- MALAYSIA CREATES PLAN TO PHASE-OUT CARBON USE BY 2030
- Malaysia plans to phase out carbon by 2030
- PRESS RELEASE: ONLINE SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION MARKETPLACE TO BE LAUNCHED NEXT WEEK AT THE UNITED NATIONS
- Agricultural investment needed to quell the mounting food crisis
- Arming the skies: Will monitoring climate change take a back seat?
- LARGEST DESERTIFICATION CONFERENCE IS FERTILE WITH IDEAS
- Lagos committed to cleaning up Africa's largest refuse heap
- Doha: Missed opportunity or new 'Bretton Woods' moment?
- Health care providers in Africa to help combat HIV in women and children
- Breast milk provided for those unable to naturally breastfeed in South Africa
- Induced mutation important in fight against hunger
- Poor education has its price: over 700 million adults will remain illiterate in 2015, warns UNESCO
- Amidst financial meltdown, Doha Conference gives developing countries a voice
2008 - November
- Community 'kept in the dark' while mine exploration goes forward on Philippine island
- Lebanese light bulb campaign sees potential in small-scale solutions to climate change
- Children's artwork on climate change raises $21,000 for UNICEF
- Court ruling on woman's slavery ordeal provides new hope for slaves in Niger
- SHIFT IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FUNDING WITH NEW UNITED STATES PRESIDENT
- Shift in reproductive health funding with new U.S. president
- Scotland hopes to lead the way in tackling climate change with new bill
- AFRICAN COUNTRIES HOPE TO PROFIT FROM GLOBAL CARBON TRADING MARKET WITH NEW PROGRAM
- African countries hope to profit from global carbon trading market
- Rethinking AIDS in Africa: Why prevention is now more important than ever
2008 - October
- Watching the climate change in your living room: Can Google Earth change global attitudes?
- Global hunger battle continues as credit crunch hits the poor
- New online game part of campaign to increase awareness of victims of conflict
- ANALYSIS: Traditional ways of healing confront a modern disease in South Africa
- Preventable conditions affect 75,000 women a year across the developing world
- New flavored malaria drug created with the needs of children in mind
- PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS NEEDS TO BE TESTED
- Preparedness for influenza pandemic needs to be tested
- As unemployment grows, migrants may be the first to suffer
- SOUTH-SOUTH VOICES: What will the next 30 years of South-South cooperation look like?
- South-South Voices Volume 4
- MENTAL DISORDERS LACK ATTENTION AND FUNDING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
- Alternative Nobel Prize awarded to individuals committed to justice and peace
- Mental health lacks attention and funding in the developing world
- Gorilla species critically endangered due to loss of habitats
- Yemen project to protect Socotra islands
- Tech company promotes HIV awareness through cell phone games
- Nobel Peace Prize winner champions sustainable security
- The other crisis: Will Europe's economic woes increase world hunger?
- NEW TOOL TACKLES INDIA'S SILENT MATERNAL MORTALITY CRISIS
- Largest ever contribution to IFAD to finance pro-poor agricultural research
- One million PCs in Venezuelan classrooms
- New tool to tackle India's silent maternal mortality crisis
- Chinese policy crucial for reversing 83 million lung disease deaths in the coming years
- Landmine victims become survivors at Cambodia's Miss Landmine contest
- IN A RAPIDLY AGING WORLD, STRUGGLE FOR WIDOWS' RIGHTS GAINS GROUND
- In a rapidly aging world, widows' rights gain ground
- Millions threatened by climate change induced coastal flooding call for disaster risk policies
- Problems and solutions of maternal mortality in the developing world
- Corruption slows Iraqi progress: UN agencies join the anti-corruption battle
- Quartet of international powers failing Palestinean women and children
2008 - September
- NEW CAMPAIGN UNVEILED TO DISTRIBUTE SMALL WATER PURIFICATION PACKETS TO CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD
- New campaign unveiled to distribute small water purification packets to children across the world
- Reducing deforestation important to cutting carbon emissions
- Ban Ki-moon addresses water scarcity and sanitation
- Increased political participation among African women
- Increased political participation among African women
- Global malaria action plan launched to eradicate malaria by 2015
- Leaders pledge to make education for all a reality
- Increasing mobile cellular subscriptions throughout the developing world
- Al Gore calls for 'civil disobedience' in the wake of climate change
- Girl child as a social group is left out of human development say policy makers
- Goal of improving maternal health significantly off track
- Eradicating poverty through shared belief systems
- Carbon capture technology could signigicantly reduce carbon dioxide emmissions
- Midwife program announced to help reach the Millennium Development Goals
- New education pack on ozone depletion launched to encourage youth participation
- Diaspora dress: Creating a fashion industry in Sierra Leone
- CHADIAN REHABILITATION CENTERS FOR DEMOBILIZED CHILD SOLDIERS STAND EMPTY
- Chadian rehabilitation centers for former child soldiers stand empty
- Field schools in Uganda are successful in aiding farmers combat disease
- Lebanese knowledge gateway bridges digital divide and fosters gender equality
- LETTER FROM PARIS: Baghdad's mayor courts European investment to rebuild war-torn city
- SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE DEMAND AN END TO IMPUNITY IN CONGO
- Survivors of sexual violence demand an end to impunity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- In India, AIDS battle continues as authors unite to tell untold AIDS stories
- PRESS RELEASE: UNDP Director for South-South Cooperation announces fourth cooperation framework
- Asia-Pacific economies trying to overcome Internet gap
- Closing gaps in Millennium Development Goals requires increased efforts
- Organic olive oil fair trade project improves social and economic situation in Palestine
- LETTER FROM PARIS: Untapped resources a central theme at NGO conference in Paris
- The elephant in a warming room: Media in developing countries struggle to give global climate change local coverage
- CLIMATE CHANGE SURVIVAL STRATEGIES SHARED THROUGH FILM
- Climate change survival strategies shared through Madagascar film
- NIGERIA REMAINS STRONG ON ITS POSITION TO NOT ACCEPT LOANS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
- Nigeria stands strong on its position not to accept loans for climate change
2008 - August
- Islam's new superheroes make their way across the globe
- Primer to help cities reduce vulnerability to climate change impacts
- Fuel shortages and rising food costs put millions of rural Nepalese in need of aid
- Workshop held to help Yemen locals with water security
- GLOBAL SOUTH-SOUTH EXPO WILL SHOWCASE MORE THAN GOOD IDEAS
- Global South-South Expo to showcase more than good ideas
- YOUTH REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE FOCUSES ON SOLUTIONS
- Youth report on climate change looks for solutions
- South African hero inspires students at leadership school
- Employment opportunities offer a road to recovery in Liberia
- SHORT-TERM EMPLOYMENT IMPORTANT TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY IN LIBERIA
- On the high seas of reproductive rights
- New information on AIDS helps countries develop prevention strategies
- TIMOR-LESTÉ GOES GREEN WITH UNDESA’S SOLAR ENERGY PROGRAM
- Timor-Lesté goes green with solar energy program
- Birth registration vital to the success of new Tetanus campaign in Madagascar
- Agriculture program in Panama targets communities making less than $953 a year
2008 - July
- Women take the lead in natural farming techniques
- South-South Voices Volume 3
- Thailand gets active in billion tree campaign
- Queer issues take a global stage at the United Nations
- India's first transgender talk show host talks back on gender issues
- THAILAND GETS ACTIVE IN THE BILLION TREE CAMPAIGN
- Costa Rica leads in alleviating global food and energy crises
- Sustainable plantain production in Haiti is an important step towards food security
- Dramatic rise in global food prices hits Afghanistan
- First national microfinance network to help create employment in Yemen
- Success of mushroom farming in Namibia attributed to training potential growers
- Poverty alleviation undermined by trade barriers in the Global South
- Worsening health crisis in Ethiopia demands increased aid from the international community
- Dispatches from a crisis: It's not the food, it's the poverty
- PREVENTABLE CHILD DEATHS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA ON THE RISE
- REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS: IS THE ANSWER BLOWING IN THE WIND?
- Sudanese child soldier trades gun for beats
- 'Surgery Saves Lives' initiative to stop preventable disability worldwide
- Fashion show spotlights need for sanitation
- CORRUPTION EATS AWAY AT AID IN AFGHANISTAN
- Medecines Sans Frontiers says pharmaceutical companies not doing enough to fight AIDS and Tuberculosis
2008 - June
- SON PREFERENCE GROWING IN INDIA
- High inflation in Asia may hinder the region’s anti-poverty gains
- Acting out the invisible: Community theatre sets the stage for AIDS prevention
- UNICEF program uses new strategy to aid malnourished children in Togo
- South-South Voices Volume 2
- Mass sexual violence as a tactic of war
- Fears of pandemic remain despite progress combating avian influenza
- Weekending Sunday, 22 June 2008
- PRESS RELEASE: At World Expo 2010, the United Nations Pavilion will promote sustainable urbanization
- We have a history: Disappearing testimonies
- Tremors in China's road to recovery
- Even as new HIV infections grow, scientists believe vaccine is possible
- Weekending Sunday, 8 June 2008
- Children's access to HIV drugs increases in sub-Saharan Africa, but still is not enough
- Study shows malaria parasites can adapt to harsh conditions
- Human trafficking: The modern face of slave trade
- South-South Cooperation: Demand for commodities grows in developing countries
- Developing Creative Economies for Least Developed Countries
- Weekending Sunday, 1 June 2008
2008 - May
- African growth accelerating, but challenges remain
- United Nations holds emergency meeting on global food crisis
- Poor nations may benefit from increased commodity prices
- Many young people living with HIV/AIDS still lack health care
- Weekending Sunday, 25 May 2008
- Hopes grow for an African fertilizer industry
- South-South Voices Volume 1
- Terrorist attacks decrease worldwide as support from Muslim world wanes
- Weekending Sunday, 18 May 2008
- Small island states face challenges to sustainable development
- Drop in migratory bird numbers indicates widespread biodiversity loss
- Study shows strategies to tackle HIV/AIDS not effective enough
- Weekending Sunday, 11 May 2008
- Climate change hinders progress on MDGs
- Weekending Sunday, 4 May 2008
- Creative economies have long-term development potential
2008 - April
- Weekending Sunday, 27 April 2008
- Report sheds light on African economies
- Weekending Sunday, 20 April 2008
- South-South cooperation builds bamboo houses to shelter an urbanizing world
- Weekending Sunday, 13 April 2008
- Congolese radio station helps bring peace
- Weekending Sunday, 6 April 2008
- Satellite technology helps combat bird flu in Asia
- THE SECOND WORLD: Beginnings of a New Global Order
2008 - March
- Weekending Sunday, 30 March 2008
- Prize money could stimulate medical research
- Weekending Sunday, 23 March 2008
- ANALYSIS: Drug resistant tuberculosis threatens public health worldwide
- Role of religious extremism in conflict discussed at the United Nations
- Weekending Sunday, 16 March 2008
- Health organizations call for greater efforts to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- Wheat-killing fungus may destroy crops in developing countries
- Chad seeks greater intervention from China in rebel conflict
- Weekending Sunday, 9 March 2008
- Weekending Sunday, 2 March 2008
2008 - February
- UN Secretary-General appoints Ray Chambers as first Special Envoy for Malaria
- Weekending Sunday, 24 February 2008
- FAO serves up edible insects as part of food security solution
- Weekending Sunday, 17 February 2008
- Promise of new constitution raises hopes in Kenya
- Weekending Sunday, 10 February 2008
- Partnerships critical to addressing effects of climate change on small island developing states
- Security in camps for the displaced helps keep children out of war
- Gender equality benefits children in least developed countries
- Gates Foundation supports 'climate-proof' rice in Africa
- Weekending Sunday, 3 February 2008
2008 - January
- Weekending Sunday, 27 January 2008
- In historic move, Cape Verde graduates from Least Developed Country status
- Weekending Sunday, 20 January 2008
- Weekending Sunday, 13 January 2008
- Improved sanitation, critical to human welfare, begins at school
2007 - December
- United Nations calls for increased South-South cooperation among Least Developed Countries
- Globalization at it's best: knowledge from developing countries valuable in solving global problems
- Salt: A simple solution to a global health problem
- United Nations Development Programme brings hope and jobs to Haitian community
- Weekending Sunday, 9 December 2007
- Contraceptives in sub-Saharan Africa: An unmet need
- IBSA Fund takes innovative steps toward development in Haiti
- Farm schools teach vulnerable African youth vital skills
- Weekending Sunday, 2 December 2007
- Measles deaths in Africa decline due to aggressive vaccination campaigns
2007 - November
- Widows are key to poverty alleviation
- Weekending Sunday, 25 November 2007
- Environment and the Doha Development Agenda: A new tool to fight climate change?
- Weekending Sunday, 18 November 2007
- Africa’s traditional crops may provide key element to food security
- Iraqi women refugees forced to engage in “survival sex”
- Official emissions trading system set to launch at the beginning of 2008
- Diabetes: A silent killer is now a global epidemic
- Plight of children in armed conflict is international crisis, reports UNICEF
- IN DEPTH: Report reveals that climate change, growing population pose imminent threats
- A green revolution: Using agriculture to fight poverty in Africa
- Weekending Sunday, 11 November 2007
- Afghan tragedy adds to grim tallies as attacks on education increase worldwide
- Asian prenatal son selection may have dire social consequences
- 'MDG Monitor' will boost South-South Cooperation, says UNDP Administrator
- IN DEPTH: Potatoes provide income, food security for East African farmers
- Weekending Sunday, 4 November 2007
- Emerging nations of the global South may bring Doha rounds to successful conclusion
2007 - October
- Weekending Sunday, 28 October 2007
- Media plays a vital role in combating climate change in the developing world
- Weekending Sunday, 21 October 2007
- South-South cooperation boosts e-governance initiatives
- As Africa gains momentum for development, Millennium Development Goals still distant
- Weekending Sunday, 14 October 2007
- Effectiveness of foreign aid debated by experts in New York
- Mobile phones speed development in rural Africa
- Record high wheat prices affecting food deficits in Least Developed Countries
- Weekending Sunday, 7 October 2007
- Creating Sport Initiatives to help reach the Millennium Development Goals
- Weekending Sunday, 30 September 2007
- Time to plan for climate change in Least Developed Countries
- Male role critical to maternal health
- Empowering women to combat climate change
2007 - September
- Combating maternal and child mortality a highlight of Clinton Global Initiative
- Darfur: The first climate change conflict of the 21st Century?
- Weekending Sunday, 23 September 2007
- Cooperation can overcome geography for Landlocked Developing Countries
- Milk and Biofuel: Uganda’s future?
- Economics of Climate Change Spurs Debate at United Nations
- Weekending Sunday, 16 September 2007
- Preservation of mountain gorillas in the DRC is vital to local economies and biodiversity
- Malawi leads in South-South Cooperation, shares food with neighbors
- Qatar hosts South-South High-Level Meeting on the future of new oil producing nations
- Weekending Sunday, 9 September 2007
- Weekending Sunday, 2 September 2007
2007 - August
- One Laptop Per Child aims to revolutionize education in Least Developed Countries
- Weekending Sunday, 25 August 2007
- Major effort initiated to end female genital mutilation in Africa
- Telecommunications line to provide African nations with internet access
- African farmers look to Cassava in struggle to compete with imports
- Women adapt more easily to environmental changes
- Weekending Sunday, 19 August 2007
- Weekending Sunday, 12 August 2007
- International Day for Indigenous People: disheartens some, inspires others
- "Carbon Neutral" aspect of General Assembly debates highlights pitfalls and possibilities of voluntary carbon market
- Plans afoot to establish a multi-hazard early warning system against extreme climate events
- Carbon Finance to benefit sustainable development in least developed countries
- Weekending Sunday, 5 August 2007
- New credit approval sets up Madagascar action plan for success
- South-South Cooperation leads to large-scale locust control in Yemen
2007 - July
- Reform initiative calls for leaner, more effective UN
- Wealthy nations will need to reduce emissions while LDCs seek greener development model
- Weekending Sunday, 29 July 2007
- Agricultural commodities are key in global development
- Food targets may not be met to feed the hungry in developing countries
- Response to health crises in Africa begins with a cellphone
- Southern African countries face acute drought crisis
- Weekending Sunday, 22 July 2007
- Scientific and technological innovation could help reduce poverty in LDCs
- Often nomadic, African pastoralists seek a stronger political voice
- Weekending Sunday, 15 July 2007
- Globalization could provide poor countries with greater access to world markets
- United Nations Affirms Support for African Union
- Weekending Sunday, 8 July 2007
- Bold womens rights legislation in Sierra Leone puts women's votes in the spotlight
- Pesticide may help Mozambique fight Malaria
- Weekending Sunday, 1 July 2007
2007 - June
- Urban growth reducing poverty in developing nations
- Trade Essential for Growth in Least Developed Countries
- Businesses have financial interest in guarding social, environmental rights
- IFAD launches new development initiatives in Sierra Leone
- Weekending Sunday, 24 June 2007
- Regionalism may help breed social equity amongst least developed countries
- South-South cooperation unit reports on latest framework implementation
- UN Global Compact helping businesses address human rights in Least Developed Countries
- Ageing populations pose unprecedented challenges within Least Developed Countries
- Weekending Sunday, 17 June 2007
- Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza Strip, UN struggling to feed nearly a million people
- Weekending Sunday, 10 June 2007
- Africa off-track to achieving development goals, United Nations appeals to G8 for aid
- Climate change threatens to intensify desertification, drought and food insecurity in Africa
- South-South exchanges on the rise: High-Level Meeting concludes on an optimistic note
- Faith-Based Organizations playing vital role in global development
- Weekending Sunday, 3 June 2007
2007 - May
- United Nations debates the future of South-South Cooperation
- Member states agree South-South collaboration must be strengthened
- New book addresses role of Technology in South-South Cooperation and Development
- International community calls for increased South-South Cooperation
- Economic outlook positive for Africa in 2007
- Weekending Sunday, 27 May 2007
- Developing countries urged to consider Climate Change in development policies
- UNICEF calls for aid to displaced Iraqi children
- Communities Win UNDP Award for Promoting Conservation
- Foundation honors AIDS advocates, Winnie Mandela
- Weekending Friday, 18 May 2007
- Environmental changes to displace millions globally
- Giving $8 billion and counting to the world’s poor
- Call for humanitarian assistance for Central African Republic food crisis
- International Atomic Energy Agency addresses African cancer “epidemic”
- Weekending Friday, 11 May 2007
- Peanuts provide possible answer to malnourishment
- New World Bank Book outlines Carbon Dioxide emissions increases
- Indoor Air Pollution a threat to health in LDCs
- Bioenergy has potential to reduce poverty, says new UN report
- IPCC developing blueprint to prevent catastrophic effects of Global Warming
- Weekending Friday, 4 May 2007
- Poverty in the midst of plenty: Industrialization and Development
- Group of 77 and China consider independent status for Special Unit for South-South Cooperation
- Women leave a smaller ecological footprint than men, according to report on gender equality
- Ethics plays important role in climate change action says Vatican, United Nations delegates
- Democratic Republic of Congo committed to sustained development, achieving MDGs
2007 - April
- Zimbabwe muzzles free speech as victims present their case to US media
- Weekending Friday, 27 April 2007
- African youth face challenges of health and poverty
- US to change policy on purchase of Food Aid
- Weekending Friday, 20 April 2007
- Food Insecurity, Hunger “pervasive” throughout Nepal
- Climate Change to affect Least Developed Countries
- Conference addresses potential of Information and Communications Technology to alleviate poverty
- New report details critical state of children in Sudan
- Early detection key to alleviating cancer in Least Developed Countries
2007 - March
- Weekending Friday, 23 March 2007
- Football superstars Ronaldo and Zidane team up with UNDP in match against poverty
- Tuberculosis kills 5,000 people a day: alarming UN report
- Weekending Friday, 16 March 2007
- Violence against women and AIDS: Parallel pandemics plague LDCs
- Declining fertility rate predicted in Least Developed Countries
- Weekending Friday, 9 March 2007
- The HPV vaccine: Obstacles facing Least Developed Countries
- UN agencies work together on decreasing effects of climate change
- Diabetes and pregnancy in Least Developed Countries
- Weekending Friday, 2 March 2007
2007 - February
- Weekending Friday, 23 February 2007
- Education is key in eliminating discrimination of the girl-child
- Weekending Friday, 9 February 2007
- Weekending Friday, 2 February 2007
- Gates Foundation presents challenge grant to ‘Nothing But Nets’
2007 - January
- Sports as a strong medium for alleviating poverty
- Weekending Friday, 26 January 2007
- Deadly outbreak in Africa’s “meningitis belt”
- Weekending Friday, 19 January 2007
- Concern about NGO accountability voiced at the UN
- UN Coordinator on Avian Flu warns of influenza outbreak and calls for vigilance
- Weekending Friday, 12 January 2007
- Least Developed Countries will continue economic growth in 2007
- Weekending Friday, 5 January 2007
2006 - December
- Weekending Friday, 22 December 2006
- Weekending Friday 15 December, 2006
- Experts see great potential for industrialization in Africa
- Development aid to sub-Saharan Africa stalls
- Avian flu concerns ramp up funding from international community
- AIDS epidemic expands but increased access to treatment provides hope
2006 - November
- Africa prepares for global avian flu pandemic
- Assessing the Millennium Development Goals: Has there been any progress?
- Untapped resource of rainwater to alleviate Africa’s water shortage
- UNDP unleashes the potential of ‘Creative Economy’ for development
- UNDP signs Global Media Compact in partnership with MediaGlobal
- UN agencies focus on preventing HIV transmission in Asia-Pacific
- Study outlines ‘Menu of Ideas’ to boost economy in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Growth rate projections suggest brighter future for Burundi
- Debt relief, aid and trade concessions further strengthen Sino-African relations
2006 - October
- UN launches girls’ education initiative in Zimbabwe
- Global Media Compact launched with the United Nations
- Burgeoning source of Foreign Investment has potential to stimulate African development
- Violence against children in Least Developed Countries: A wake up call for the world
- Over 5,000 Children in Least Developed Countries die of diarrhoea each day
- Debt Relief Contributing to Poverty Alleviation in Africa
- Early warning system for climate change can fight Malaria in the vulnerable countries of Africa
- Guinea Bissau appeals to international donors to combat growing food insecurity
2006 - September
- “Grave” humanitarian situation in the northern and northeastern parts of Central African Republic
- A New Development spending strategy to reach villages in poor countries
- Djibouti to invest in luxury properties and raise its profile
- Zambia Succeeds with HIV/AIDS free treatment program and anti-retroviral therapy
- Women at the forefront in overcoming land degradation
- Investment in Social Services: Key to Ending Poverty
- Africa made more reforms “than any other region”: Doing Business 2007 Reports
- Promoting ‘education for all’ in Least Developed Countries
- Kenya and Zanzibar Making Progress in Combating Malaria
2006 - August
- Least Developed Countries Show Remarkable Increase in Economic Growth
- Growing International Focus on Preventable Diseases in the World’s Poorest Countries
2006 - July
- Rwanda: Recovering from Genocide through creativity in culture and arts
- Pharmaceutical executives to make HIV/AIDS drugs “More affordable and accessible”
- Landlocked Developing Countries: A new book raises issues and concerns
- Russia to assist Least Developed Countries with debt payments
- Food shortages in Niger leave children malnourished
- G8 Summit promises more development funds for Africa
- Israeli warplanes slam central Beirut
- Commission on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific created to study the devastating impact of AIDS
- Battle rages in South Africa to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS
- Achieving Gender Equality: More Girls Receive Basic Education in Africa
- United Nations Launches Global Media Compact in Partnership With Mediaglobal
2006 - June
2006 - May
2006 - April
- Raising awareness and funds to combat malaria in Africa
- World Bank offers debt relief to eleven nations: nine are least developed countries
- Without user fees more Africans avail of healthcare facilities
2006 - March
- United Nations Launches Coordinated Global Initiative to Combat Avian Influenza
- Girls' education key to gender balance
- Asia’s least developed countries call for increased development aid
- African Union and FAO Escalate Efforts to Curb the Spread of the Virus in Africa
- Zambian Chief initiates a unique rural-urban dialogue
- African Union Issues Guidelines for Post-Conflict Resolution
2006 - February
- People are Starving and People are Dying in the Poor Countries of Africa
- NEPAD Implementation Report Shows a Big Leap Forward
- China Delivers in Africa and Supports the Goals of the African Union
- India Takes A Major Stride to Alleviate Poverty
- Working Towards a World Without Tuberculosis
- Americans Are in Support of Increasing Development Aid to Africa, National Survey Reveals
2006 - January
- Africa hit by drought, needs urgent assistance
- Malawi Joins Project for Accelerated Push to Achieve Millennium Development Goals
- The South Asian Free Trade Agreement Will Benefit Asia's Least Developed Countries
- Each Year One Million People in Vulnerable Countries of Africa Die of Malaria; 71 Per Cent Under Five Years of Age
- Has the World Failed to Keep Its Promise of Reducing Poverty in Africa?
- Avian Flu Pandemic Could Kill 150 Million People Worldwide, Warns United Nations Expert
- NEPAD’s Strategic Approach Puts Countries in Africa on a Path of Sustainable Growth
- United States Approves Generic AIDS Drug to Benefit Children in Vulnerable Countries
2005 - December
- At WTO Talks, Developed Countries Struggle to Tangibly Assist Vulnerable Countries
- Aid-for-Trade Arrangement Seen as Detrimental to Vulnerable Countries
- Benin's Measles Initiative Will Save the Lives of over 2,000 Children
- IMF Declares Debt Relief for Vulnerable Countries