Life has been very distressing for many Cambodians since severe flooding hit the country in 2011. And yet in part thanks to WFP Food-for-Assets project, there are some encouraging signs of recovery
Education provides opportunities for the world’s poorest children by giving them the skills to gain employment and earn an income, increasing productivity in communities. If all students in low-income countries left school with basic reading skills, 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty. This would mean a 12 per cent cut in global poverty.
Carol Bellamy, Chair of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), is visiting Australia this week to discuss Australia’s partnership with GPE and the importance of increasing engagement in the Asia Pacific region.
Evidence shows that almost one billion people globally suffer from food insecurity, and that around 171 million children under five years old suffer from stunted growth due to undernutrition. As the G8’s previous commitment to food security and nutrition expires this year, Concern Worldwide strongly believes that now is the time to take preventative and long-lasting action that can help to make undernutrition history.
Hace exactamente cien años, el CICR instituyó la primera Medalla Florence Nightingale. Se trata de la más alta distinción internacional que puede otorgarse a enfermeros o auxiliares de enfermería. Philippa Parker, que durante mucho tiempo fue enfermera del CICR en el terreno y actualmente es la jefa de la unidad de Salud de la Institución, describe los retos que hoy afronta el personal de enfermería en países afectados por violencia armada. Hace referencia a la creciente falta de seguridad que amenaza la prestación de una asistencia de salud eficaz.
GENEVA (11 May 2012) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday offered her encouragement to ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in drafting a regional human rights declaration, but called for a meaningful consultation on the draft with the widest spectrum of people in the region before it is presented to ASEAN’s foreign ministers in July.
Asia-Pacific actions to address climate change will have global impact
Jakarta -- Countries in Asia and the Pacific are at a crossroads and must now strike a balance between rising prosperity and rising emissions. Their success or failure will have repercussions worldwide, predicts a new report released today by the United Nations Development Programme.
These maps show areas that are prone to flooding. These maps do not depict actual flood situations nor forecasted flood extents. It is based on the maximum historical flood extent of the combination of the 1995, 1996 and the year 2000 floods.
Volunteer British doctors, nurses and midwives will train more than 13,000 health workers to provide life-saving care for millions of the world’s poorest people, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.
Skilled health professionals from Britain will teach and offer practical assistance to their counterparts in the developing world under the Government’s Health Partnership Scheme.
Over four years, the flagship programme will:
Australia's Official Development Assistance (ODA) will increase to $5.2 billion in 2012-13 – an increase of $2 billion, or 60 per cent more, since the election of the Labor Government in 2007.
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Carr, said this confirmed Australia could become the sixth largest aid donor in the OECD by 2015-16.
"The allocation in the 2012-13 Budget to ODA will increase by over $300 million from 2011-12 and maintain ODA at 0.35% of Gross National Income (GNI)," Senator Carr said.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr today announced the introduction of a Comprehensive Aid Policy Framework which will guide the growth of the Australian aid budget over the next four years.
'Australia's commitment to international development efforts is contributing to real results,' Mr Carr said.
'Poverty is decreasing in every region of the world, but more remains to be done.
We, the undersigned international human rights organizations, are concerned that the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) has yet to take the necessary steps to ensure that the process of drafting the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) is transparent and fully consultative with civil society organizations in the ASEAN region.
In a joint statement released on April 8th (full text below), over 130 local, national and regional civil society organizations across the ASEAN region called on AICHR to implement the following steps:
UN Peacekeeping Set To Benefit From New Environmental Practices, According To New UNEP Report
New York, 1 May 2012 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has today released the findings of a two-year analysis of how peacekeeping missions around the world affect, and are affected by, natural resources and the broader environment.
BANGKOK, 1 mai 2012 (IRIN) - Une résistance à un médicament antipaludique comportant de l'artémisinine est suspectée le long de la frontière entre la Thaïlande et le Myanmar ainsi qu'au sud du Vietnam, mais les scientifiques espèrent l'endiguer. Des cas de résistance à l'artémisinine ont été signalés à la frontière entre la Thaïlande et le Cambodge il y a environ huit ans.
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