Article Archives
2008 - August
- 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 July 2008
- 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 June 2008
- 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 April/May 2008
- 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