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U.S.: Obama Urged to Strengthen Ties with U.N.
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of some three dozen senior foreign policy figures has released a statement calling for President-elect Barack Obama to make strengthening long-troubled U.S. relations with the United Nations a major priority in his new administration.
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LATIN AMERICA: IPS and UNDP Launch Second Journalism Prize on MDGs
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - Next year will be a tough time for the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, which means it will be more than ever necessary to avoid backsliding in the efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and journalists have an important role to play in that task, UNDP regional director Rebeca Grynspan said Wednesday.
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DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Looks to Doha Summit for Answers
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As the spreading global financial crisis threatens to cripple banks, stock markets and manufacturing industries in the developing world, the United Nations is now focusing on the outcome of a major international conference on Financing for Development (FfD) scheduled to take place in Doha next week.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Research and Policies Lack Civil Society Input
By Kristin Palitza
BAMAKO - Health experts and activists have heavily criticised African governments for failing to collaborate with civil society organisations (CSOs) on health research and health policy development.
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PERU: My Mining Deposits Are Under Your House
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - "Just imagine you’re told you have to leave your house, your livestock, the graves of your loved ones, and then they take you to an unfamiliar place without even asking you what you think about it. How would you feel?" asks Eduardo Sueldo, the local environment delegate in a highlands village in southern Peru.
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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Groundwater: Protecting a Hidden Resource
By Moses Magadza
GABORONE - Groundwater -- water located beneath the ground in soil or rock formations -- is a secure source of water that if properly managed can last for centuries. The challenge is how to locate it and monitor the effects of its use.
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EDUCATION: Zimbabwe’s School System Crumbles
By Stanley Kwenda
HARARE - Glen View 5 Primary School in one of Harare's high-density suburbs is deserted. Classrooms are empty, desks and chairs are piled up in corners and instruction charts are peeling off the walls. Yet, the school's third term is in full swing.
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HEALTH-AFRICA: Who Is To Blame for the Crisis?
By Kristin Palitza
BAMAKO - Health systems on the continent are riddled with inadequate policies, strategies, lack of institutional capacity, poor scientific review mechanisms and weak funding for research in the public and private sector, said Luis Sambo, regional director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Africa.
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POLITICS-ANGOLA: A Tradition of Strong Women
By Louise Redvers
LUANDA - She was orphaned by Angola's liberation struggle against Portugal, but through it she found a new family and a life-long inspiration.
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EDUCATION-NEPAL: Increasing Budget Not Enough to Meet Goals
By Renu Kshetry
HUMLA - While the new Maoist government has dramatically increased the outlay for education in the annual budget to meet the goal of Education for All (EFA) by 2015, a visit to remote, mountainous Limi village in mid-western Nepal shows that the goal will be hard to reach.
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Q&A: "Wanted: A New Global Deal"
Thalif Deen interviews HEIDEMARIE WIECZOREK-ZEUL, German Development Minister
UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations conference on Financing for Development (FfD) is scheduled to take place in Doha, Qatar, next week against the backdrop of a devastating global economic crisis that has threatened to undermine the basic foundations of Anglo-Saxon capitalism.
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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Gender Budgeting Still Finding Its Feet
Joyce Mulama interviews MERYEM ASLAN, East and Horn of Africa programme director for UNIFEM
NAIROBI - With the world slightly past the halfway mark to the Millennium Development Goal deadline of 2015, pressure is mounting to promote gender equality. Goal Three is to promote gender equality and empower women -- but in fact, every goal relates directly to women's rights.
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ZAMBIA: New Spending On Rural Health
By Danstan Kaunda
LUSAKA - In an attempt to drastically reduce child mortality rates and boost maternal health, the Zambian government last year allocated a substantial budget to the public health sector. This move has resulted in a notable drop in child deaths, researchers say.
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DEVELOPMENT: Watch That Gender Space
By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - It is rather obvious that women are about half the population; it's just as obvious that in underdeveloped places they carry more than half their share of the burden. So how much of development aid gets to women? The unfortunate answer to that question is another question: who knows.
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AGRICULTURE: Swazi Input Trade Fairs Falling Short
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - Mary Ntshangase sits under a big umbrella -- a packet of beans in one hand and a packet of peanuts in the other -- wooing customers to her stall.
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BOOKS: Finding Humour and Tragedy in That Daily Ritual
By Mirela Xanthaki
NEW YORK - We each spend, on average, three years of our lives going to the toilet -- assuming we have one, that is.
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CHILE: 512 HIV-Positive People Not Notified
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Chilean Health Minister Álvaro Erazo reported Thursday that 512 people who tested positive for HIV were not notified by the public health system.
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DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Seeks Bailout Package for World's Poorest
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The buzzword in the international community these days is "bailout" -- the multi-billion-dollar economic rescue packages aimed at helping a rash of faltering investment banks and insurance companies, mostly in the United States and Western Europe.
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FILM: Swazi Grandmothers Shore Up a Crumbling Society
By Marie-Helene Rousseau
NEW YORK - In a country barely the size of the U.S. state of New Jersey, a disease has taken hold. Nearly 40 percent of Swaziland's population is HIV-positive, and the other 60 percent lives at constant risk for the disease.
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DEVELOPMENT: A Global Health Model, Village by Village
By Michael J. Carter
SEATTLE, Washington - Working for sustainable development in Kenya, which ranks 148th out of 177 countries on the United Nations development index, is a daunting task. The country not only has a 6.1 percent rate of HIV/AIDS infection among its 37 million people, but nearly 60 percent of Kenyans live on less than two dollars a day.
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HEALTH: Europe Ignoring TB Research
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - Funding from the European Union's Brussels headquarters for research into tuberculosis stands at about a fifth of what it should be given the EU's enormous wealth, a new study has found.
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World leaders convene in New York on September 25 for a high-level event set up by U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to renovate commitments to reaching the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The meeting will also focus on concrete plans for action. Read IPS stories about the issues at stake, the coverage from the event, and more.

Metas del Milenio 2015
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Deadline 2015
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Aimed at ending global poverty, a campaign was launched with the song "In My Name" to encourage citizens from around the world to upload their videos on You Tube.(youtube.com/inmyname). The best videos will be shown to the world leaders at the U.N.

The Neglected Goal - A Toilet Revolution

Special Report from Colombia - The Unusual Wealth of the Chocó


	A WAR ON POVERTY OR A WAR ON THE POOR? by Riccardo Petrella

	EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE RISKS OF INACTION by Yash Tandon

	CURRENT PACE TOO SLOW ON UN MILLENNIUM POVERTY GOALS by Thabo Mbeki

	UNQUENCHABLE THIRST: THE WORLD WATER BUSINESS by Riccardo Petrella

	TAILOR THE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH TO LOCAL CONDITIONS by Benjamin Mkapa

	MDGS AT MIDPOINT : THE MONEY IS THERE, THE POLITICAL WILL ISN'T by Kumi Naidoo

	MILLENNIUM GOALS NOT ON COURSE : TIME FOR URGENT ACTION by Mary Robinson

	GLOBALISATION: NOT A ZERO SUM GAME BUT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL by Emma Bonino

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