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The Rome food summit fails to deliver to the poor
Indian capital aspires to be women-friendly
Four million under-fives die in Asia and the Pacific
Indian tribals gain good health through sanitation
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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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What’s cooking?
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The World Food Summit
failed to secure a bare
$44 billion per year
from the G8 nations
to fight chronic hunger.
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
of York University,
Canada, analyses the
reasons why.
Read more...
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Where’s the food?
Photo credit: Raja Islam/ Flickr
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Safety in the city
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Can the Indian capital be a safe city
for women? The recently launched Safe
Delhi Campaign hopes to make this
happen by educating youth and community
groups on gender equity and empowerment.
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Women for peace
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Women’s rights activists and civil society
members observe the South Asian Women’s Day
in New Delhi by expressing solidarity against conflict and violence.
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A mother gets her child
to
the local Anganwadi centre
for food supplements.
Photo credit: Indiaindia/ Flickr
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Lost childhoods
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Four out of the nine
million children dying
each
year before the
age of five live in
Asia and the Pacific
– India being home to
the world’s largest
number of undernourished
children with maximum
under-five deaths.
The
right health interventions
can save many from these
preventable causes.
Read more...
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| November 19 is World Toilet Day |
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The path to good health
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Tribal houses in Chhattisgarh’s Purkela village, in eastern India, boast of
an unlikely status symbol: signs that read ‘A house with a toilet’. Thanks
to the government-led Total Sanitation
Campaign, the community has
witnessed
a 50% drop in diseases.
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News |
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Polio -free |
WHO aims to make Afghanistan polio-free in
the next two years by focusing
on areas of Taliban stronghold where children
lose out because of fighting. |
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Dark waters |
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Man-made ponds to supply drinking water to Bangladeshi villagers are spreading arsenic contamination through ground water, says a new study. |
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Peacekeepers |
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India becomes the first country to send an all-female police force to a UN peacekeeping mission. |
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Healthcare for mothers |
Culturally adaptable health programmes are showing results in Vietnam’s Hoa Binh province where ethnic minorities still give birth
at home. |
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Listen to the radio |
Trained by OneWorld and
NGO Jagori, Indian children script and educate
on child marriages through
the capital’s airwaves. |
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Resources |
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Women and the climate agenda |
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UNFPA’s report
The State of World Population 2009 draws attention to the unequal impact of global warming on poor women and coastal populations. It argues for investing in health and education of women and girls to boost up economic development, reduce poverty, and have a beneficial impact on climate. |
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The rights of Afghan women |
The Human Rights Watch report We have the Promises of the World details cases of ongoing
rights violations of women
in Afghanistan in five areas: attacks on women in public life; violence against women; child and forced marriage; access to justice; and
girls’ access to secondary education. |
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This newsletter is brought to you by OWSA,
in partnership with the UN Millennium
Campaign. |
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