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Crisis making girls vulnerable to child labour
CSOs demand better healthcare in eastern India
Greenpeace tells Indian PM to save monsoons
Women’s groups demand gender equity at UN summit
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Welcome
to Asia and the Pacific MDG Watch.
This fortnightly electronic newsletter brings to
you news and information on the progress of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Asia and
the Pacific.
The MDGs are a global initiative taken by the world’s
governments to improve the lives of their people.
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June 12 is World Day against Child Labour
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Girl in peril |
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The global financial crisis may erode the progress in reducing child labour as poverty forces families to make girls work outside and at homes. A new ILO report also reveals that when it comes to making a choice in the face of
deprivation, parents prefer to send the male child to school.
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A girl works at a garage dump in Cambodia
Photo credit: flickr
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Demanding good health
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A civil society convention in eastern India prepared a charter of demands for the health budget of Orissa. Participants also called for making services affordable for the poor and checking the rampant growth of private healthcare in the state.
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June 5 is World Environment Day
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Climate call
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Greenpeace has urged the Indian Prime Minister to save monsoons. In its new study, the environment body warns that climate change could adversely affect rainfall in the country with far reaching social and economic impacts.
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Climate guard
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At the Bonn climate talks, the UN has called for a new post-Kyoto pact that would protect the vulnerable from climatic shocks. Oxfam raised the issue of a vulnerability index to help allocate adaptation funds fairly.
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Voicing women's rights
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The GCAP Feminist Taskforce and other women rights’ groups are calling for a stronger UN role at the upcoming G192 UN Summit for an inclusive response to the global financial crisis.
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News |
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Rising hunger
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A new UNICEF report says more than 400 million people remain chronically hungry in South Asia – the highest in last four decades.
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Outreach
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The Millennium Campaign takes its advocacy mission to Cambodia to help achieve the nation’s MDG targets.
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Unfriendly schools
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Many schools in the Vietnamese capital lack toilets, making education a harrowing experience for young children.
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Missing the MDGs
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Pakistan’s new budget neglects its health and education sectors with allocations lesser than the MDG demands.
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Resources |
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Election watch
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A toolkit published by the UN Millennium Campaign, Making Votes and Voices Count in Elections draws concrete lessons for MDG advocacy during the electoral process for civil society activists and political parties.
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Lessons in crisis
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Save the Children’s new report
Last in Line, Last in School 2009
notes that wider education reforms are needed to address the immediate educational needs of conflict-affected populations.
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This newsletter is brought to you by OWSA, in
partnership with the UN Millennium Campaign.
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