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International Policy

  • May 2, 2008 In Zimbabwe Police Intensify NGO raids
    Police this week intensified their crackdown on civil society by arresting employees of a humanitarian organisation, Action Aid. The non-governmental organisation’s acting director Anne Chipembere, senior programmes officer Precious Shumba and three other employees were arrested in Mayo, Manicaland, by police officers from the Law and Order department.
  • Apr 5, 2008 Another poor year for overseas aid
    Developing countries are betrayed by richer nations failing to fulfill their pledges.
  • Mar 28, 2008 After 28 months in prison, Daniel and Netsanet are free
    After 28 months in prison, Daniel and Netsanet are free. Anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie released from prison in Ethiopia
  • Mar 19, 2008 No More Liberalisation, Trade Ministers Urged
    Trade ministers from the world's poorest countries must stand firm this week against WTO moves to further liberalise world trade, a move which has already cost sub-Saharan Africa $272 bn over the last twenty years, says ActionAid.
  • Mar 3, 2008 Political Deal Ends Fear of Violence in Kenya
    Tension has turned to celebration in most places hit by post election violence in Kenya, following the brokering of a political deal (on 28 February) between President Mwai Kibaki and his main political rival the Hon. Raila Odinga.

Food Rights

  • May 1, 2008 Sierra Leone: Reduce Foodstuff Importation, Says ActionAid
    Country director ActionAid Sierra Leone Tuesday said there was need for the country to reduce the importation of foodstuffs, especially rice, which is the country's staple food.
  • Apr 24, 2008 UNCTAD Hears Gender Inequality Becoming Worse - And Better
    The only way that the poor, particularly women, will benefit from all the efforts that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has put into improving global trade is to ensure that power inequalities are redressed
  • Apr 23, 2008 EU and U.S. Failing Poor Farmers, Says ActionAid
    ActionAid has hit out at resistance by the EU and the US to demands by G77 for a stronger role for UNCTAD to regulate trade in agriculture commodities. The EU and US are also accused of starving UNCTAD of resources and limiting its mandate.
  • Mar 14, 2008 Activists Say More Money Needed to Help Developing Countries Cope with Global Warming
    The world's wealthy countries need to pump more money into financing poorer nations' efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with climate change, environmentalists said Friday ahead of a global warming conference.
  • Mar 5, 2008 Food Aid We Can Afford
    While it is true that rising food prices could significantly reduce the volume of aid deliveries, I was astonished that this article did not mention one obvious solution: Buy the food locally or regionally in developing countries instead of buying it in the United States and shipping it thousands of miles.

Women's Rights

  • Apr 28, 2008 India PM Calls Aborted Fetuses Shameful
  • Apr 24, 2008 UNCTAD Hears Gender Inequality Becoming Worse - And Better
    The only way that the poor, particularly women, will benefit from all the efforts that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has put into improving global trade is to ensure that power inequalities are redressed
  • Apr 14, 2008 Modern India Still Prays for Boys
    It has long been clear that India has a deep-seated preference for boys. By 2001, researchers estimated the country had anywhere from 20 million to 40 million "missing" girls from sex-selective abortions made available through the spread of ultrasound technology. But as India modernizes — as places like Singhpura become small towns, as towns become cities and as India's once-overwhelming poverty is slowly supplanted by an increasingly educated middle class that wants fewer children — researchers say the problem is only getting worse.
  • Mar 10, 2008 Advocates Call for Increased Investment in Women, Girls Worldwide To Address Issues Such as HIV/AIDS
    Advocates worldwide ahead of International Women's Day on Saturday highlighted issues such as HIV/AIDS, gender equality, discrimination, violence against women and the need to invest in women and girls, the AP/PR-Inside.com reports.
  • Mar 7, 2008 Why International Women's Day Matters
    Action Aid's Women's rights policy officer, Laura Turquet, talks about some key issues that affect women in the developing world - highlighted by the three films that you can watch here.

IMF Project

  • Apr 15, 2008 IMF - The Times They Are A-Changin'
    There is overwhelming evidence of the failure of the IMF's policy agenda. Mass privatization has led to enormous concentrations of wealth and encouraged corruption. Deregulation has contributed to financial crises, including those that foreshadowed the current global crisis centered in the United States. The overall economic model had impoverished tens of millions and left developing countries poorer. And government budget ceilings and inflation targets have prevented countries from expanding desperately needed investments in healthcare and education.
  • Apr 8, 2008 Congress Should Demand IMF Policy Reform Before Approving Gold Sales, Coalition Says
    As the IMF announces plans to sell gold to fund its future operations, a large U.S. coalition of health, labor, faith-based and development organizations is urging the U.S. Congress not to approve gold sales unless the IMF adopts changes to policies that have restricted investments in health, education and HIV/AIDS spending in sub-Saharan African and other developing countries.
  • Mar 18, 2008 IMF Promises Policy Change
    THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Malawi has promised to change some of their policy to fit into the country’s development needs.
  • Mar 13, 2008 Migration, Governance at Root of Global Shortage of Health Care Workers
    Earlier this month, 1,000 people from around the world gathered at a World Health Organization-sponsored forum here to discuss what's increasingly being seen as a global crisis: the acute shortage of health care workers.
  • Mar 10, 2008 Advocates Call for Increased Investment in Women, Girls Worldwide To Address Issues Such as HIV/AIDS
    Advocates worldwide ahead of International Women's Day on Saturday highlighted issues such as HIV/AIDS, gender equality, discrimination, violence against women and the need to invest in women and girls, the AP/PR-Inside.com reports.

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