Millenium Development Goal

Jeffrey Sachs: Extreme Poverty Can Be Eradicated By 2025

ottawacitizen.com | Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

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The world has found trillions of dollars in financial bailouts and squandered trillions more in war and military outlays. Yet it has not been able to ...

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One Man's Tireless Effort to Provide ICT Education to Nepalese Students

Subhash Ghimire | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

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Subhash Ghimire

With few exceptions, Nepalese business and political leaders often dismiss young people when they come up with ambitious ideas. Unless they change their attitude, Nepal's future remains gloomy.

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Water Is Medicine: Why Are We Neglecting This Cure?

John Sauer | Posted 09.08.2009 | World

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John Sauer

More than 25 diseases are caused by inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene creating nearly 10% of the global public health burden, killing more than 2 million people a year.

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We Need a Global Fund for Moms

Liya Kebede | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

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Liya Kebede

Each mother who dies leaves behind a devastated family and weakened community that will eventually, somehow, affect each of us.

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The Italian Job: What the 2009 G8 Summit Must Deliver on Health and Aid for Africa

World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

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World Vision

While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.

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Energy: At the Nexus of Climate, Poverty, and Global Security

Robert A. Freling | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

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Robert A. Freling

Rural villages can now bypass the age of fossil fuels and catapult themselves into a bright, sustainable, carbon-free future.

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Stand Up for People that Can't Sit Down

John Sauer | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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John Sauer

Every 20 seconds, a child dies of sanitation-related diseases, which kill five times as many children as HIV/AIDS.

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