Poverty drives farmers to death
Online sites and blogs garner support for MDGs
Asian food crisis hits women workers
Indian women’s reservation bill in parliament
Shreekrishna Kalamb, a poet-farmer in western
India’s Vidarbha region, ended his
life on March 24. His poems are reflective of
the great agrarian crisis and despair sweeping
through rural India, leading to mass suicides
of farmers.
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The UN Millennium Campaign’s online social
networking initiative has garnered thousands
of supporters from popular sites and blogs
in the fight against poverty.
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MDG 1: Eradicate extreme
poverty and hunger
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The current food crisis has hit women
workers
in Asia the worst, say women rights’ activists
seeking better incomes for women. With
food prices up, women are driven to extra
work in the informal sector with no steady
wages or social benefits.
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The surge in food prices has put countries
at risk in achieving the MDGs by 2015. Establishing
cross-linkages between all goals is critical
to tide over the food crisis, says Salil
Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign.
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The women’s reservation
bill is set to get a hearing
on May 6 as various women
groups gathered outside
the Parliament in the Indian
capital over the past week,
demanding its introduction
in the current session.
The bill seeks 33% reservation
for women in state and national
legislative bodies.
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Dr Ranjana Kumari, Director
of the Delhi based Centre
for Social Research says
why it’s important for men
to value and institutionalise
partnerships with women.
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On the eve of the first ever World Malaria Day,
UN Chief Ban Ki-moon announces a ‘bold but achievable’
plan to ensure a stop to malaria deaths by end of
2010. Claiming more than one million people every
year, the killer disease is spreading to new regions
in India.
Orissa is slowly waking up to the real threat of
sea erosion and its links with climate change. The
troubled
Sunderbans, no better, offer a glimpse of the
future.
UNESCO’s latest training kit
Media as Partners in Education for Sustainable Development
provides media professionals with critical information
on priority social, economic and environmental issues
and inspires them for investigative reporting.
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paddies, north of Manila, Philippines
