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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 17 Beatrice Costa, Policy Officer, Hungerfree Women Campaign, Action Aid

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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 16 Francesca Caferri, Reporter, La Repubblica, Italy

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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 15 Cristiana Scoppa, Head of Communication, StopFGM! Campaign, AIDOS

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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 14 Wendy Harcourt, author of Body Politics in Develop- ment, (ZED books, 2009) and editor of Development, the journal of the Society for International Development

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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 13 Emma Bonino, Vice President, Italian Senate

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media – 12c

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 12c Soukeina Bouraoui, Executive Director, Centre of Arab Women for Training & Research-CAWTAR – 30 years of CEDAW – using the law to end inequality

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media – 12b

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 12b Soukeina Bouraoui, Executive Director, Centre of Arab Women for Training & Research-CAWTAR – 30 years of CEDAW – using the law to end inequality

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media – 12

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 12 Soukeina Bouraoui, Executive Director, Centre of Arab Women for Training & Research-CAWTAR – 30 years of CEDAW – using the law to end inequality

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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 11 Emma Bonino, Vice President, Italian Senate

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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 10 Thenjiwe Mtintso, South Africa Ambassador to Rome

WORLD AIDS DAY: Herdboys at Risk to Contract HIV

In the scorching heat of the midday summer sun, a teenage boy’s sharp voice can be heard vividly as he continuously summons his cattle. Glad in his shabby-looking rag that used to be a blanket and black gumboots, the only thing that occupies his mind is his herd, his everyday companions, nothing else.

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media – 9

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 9 Paula Fray, IPS Africa Director, Global Launch of the Reporting Gender Based Violence media handbook

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Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 8 Monia Azzalini, Osservatorio di Pavia Media Research, the Global Media Monitoring Project in Italy

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sm Kee, Coordinator, Women's Rights Advocacy, Association for Progressive Communication WNSP

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media – 6

Millennium Development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 6 Robert Dijksterhuis, Head Gender Division, Human Rights, Gender, Good Governance and Humanitarian Aid Department, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Millenium development Goal 3 and the role of the media – 5

Millenium development Goal 3 and the role of the media - 5 Deborah Bergamini, Chair, North-South Centre, Council Europe

CLIMATE CHANGE: Commonwealth Champions Adaption Fund

South African President Jacob Zuma admits that before to coming to Trinidad for the bi-annual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), he met with its secretary general, Kamalesh Sharma, to discuss the relevance of the grouping in today's evolving global power structure.

MIDEAST: One Palestinian Prisoner Could Change the Balance

The fate of one prisoner locked in an Israeli jail could release the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process from its own jail - provided the timing is right.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Farming Stands Up to El Niño

Food security is guaranteed for Honduras next year because the cyclical weather phenomenon known as El Niño did not hurt the production of basic grains, official and private sources told Tierramérica.

Ecobreves – VENEZUELA: Organizing Against Climate Change

People in the farming town of Panaquire, population 7,000, founded three centuries ago on a flood-vulnerable plain southeast of Caracas, have organized in order to predict the effects of climate change through a community-based early warning weather system.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Eco-Plastic Made from Quinoa

Quinoa, a pseudo-cereal that is a complete protein source native to the Andes, is also the raw material for a biodegradable plastic developed by Brazil's University of Campinas.