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Pregnant with Possibility
By Asha-Rose Migiro*
IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint
NEW YORK (IDN) - The news of a pregnancy should ideally be met with joy -- but all too often there is justifiable fear. The African Union Summit, set to focus on the health of mothers and children, has a chance to transform this fear into hope.
(The Summit concludes on July 27, 2010.)
Ten years into the Millennium Development Goals, we know what African leaders have always appreciated: when you invest in mothers, whole societies benefit, and when you care for children, you raise a new generation of leaders.
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UN Funds Gender Equality in Bosnia-Herzegovina
By J. Chandler
IDN-InDepth News Analysis
TORONTO (IDN) - The United Nations has decided to help advance gender equality and women's rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country in South-Eastern Europe whose Constitution assures gender equality but women in the country are still restricted in the exercise of their fundamental rights and freedoms because of entrenched tradition.
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Protecting Children from Exploitation
By J. Chandler
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
TORONTO (IDN) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is calling on the business community to work together to build universal principles that will place children’s rights at the top of the global corporate responsibility agenda.
The 'Children’s Principles for Business' will help business avoid the negative impacts that their activities may have on children, argues UNICEF that is being backed by the UN Global Compact and Save the Children non-governmental organization.
The Global Compact -- which observed its ten years of existence at a leaders' summit concluded in New York on June 25 -- is a call to companies . . .
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Development Wisdoms and Platitudes
By Ramesh Jaura
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
BERLIN (IDN) - The United Nations Development Programme has found the Stone of the Wise Ones to achieve in the next five years deep and far-reaching goals that range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education.
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Invest in Women and Maternal Health
By J. Chandler
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
TORONTO (IDN) - At least one woman dies every 90 seconds from pregnancy-related causes and another 20 suffer infection or disability, while four million newborns die every year.
These grim numbers actually represent improvements over the last 20 years, during which many international gatherings have pledged investments in women that failed to materialize.
The gatherings included the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the 1995 Beijing International Conference on Women, the Monterey Consensus 2003, the 2004 Paris Declaration . . .
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Indigenous Peoples in Asia Less Poor
By Jaya Ramachandran
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
GENEVA (IDN) – Indigenous peoples are among the poorest of the world, who suffer from higher poverty, lower education, and a greater incidence of disease and discrimination than other groups of the society. But they are benefitting from the “rapidly declining” poverty rates in Asia, which hosts an overwhelming majority of them.
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Canada Wants G8 to Champion Maternal and Child Health
By J. Chandler
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
TORONTO (IDN) – Maternal and child health in the world's poorest regions is an important development priority for Canada at the upcoming G8 June summit in Huntsville, Ontario. But it will not be an easy ride for Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The G8 (Group of 8) is 18 billion U.S. dollar short on its commitments to alleviate poverty in developing countries, according to the OECD.
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The Silent Death of Life Givers
By Babukar Kashka
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
NAIROBI (IDN) – They give life almost in every way – they deliver generation after generation; they plant seeds and grow crops, feed their families and sell food in rural markets; they bring water and heat and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their people be them newborns, adults or elderly. They save biodiversity – the key source of the future of every living thing. In brief, they develop and maintain the life cycle.
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Canada 2031 – Toward Unique Diversity
By Suresh Jaura*
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
TORONTO (IDN) – “India is people of one nation celebrating diversity. Canada will be a unique example of diversity - bringing the world together as a nation, says India-born Harinder S. Takhar, Ontario’s Minister of Government Services, commenting on the Statistics Canada study.”
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A Youthful Minister From India’s Garo Hills
By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsPortrait MANILA (IDN) – She can easily pass off as a university student. Not only because she is rather young-looking and unpretentious but also because she is dressed so simple that you would not associate her with the keynote speaker at the opening of the Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar on ‘Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change and Rural Poverty’.
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Parliamentarians Vow Support For Indigenous Peoples
By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsSpecial MANILA (IDN) – The concerns of the indigenous peoples, at the heart of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), are considered of vital significance by parliamentarians of the countries of Asia-Pacific. The region hosts some 70 percent of the indigenous peoples, who are among the poorest of the world and often the most marginalized and disadvantaged in their countries.
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Of Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change And Rural Poverty
By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsSpecial MANILA (IDN) – They constitute some four percent of the global population. They are spread around the world in 70 countries, from the Arctic to the South Pacific. Their numbers add up to somewhere between 300 and 370 million, equal to or outnumbering the inhabitants of the United States of America.
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Today 100 Children Will Die In Zimbabwe
By Babukar Kashka IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – For those who are fond of statistics, please take note that today, tomorrow, the day after and so on, around 100 children under the age of five, will die in Zimbabwe. Please also take note that these deaths are mostly due to preventable diseases.
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And Yet One In Three Africans Is Chronically Hungry
By Babukar Kashka IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – One in three Africans is chronically hungry despite 3 billion dollars a year that Africa receives in food aid and 33 billion dollars the continent spends annually on food imports. What to do?
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No Health Care For One Billion Migrants
By Baltasar Garrido IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis MADRID (IDN) – Experts and decision-makers have followed with deep concern the Global Consultation on Migrant Health in Madrid. No wonder. Reports show that a high percentage of the one billion migrants worldwide lack access to health care, while their poverty and exploitative work conditions have worsened.
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RIGHTS: ‘Girls Discovered’ Highlights Plight of Teenagers
BY ELEONORE MEYER IDN-InDepthNews Service BERLIN (IDN) - Together with the Coalition for Adolescent Girls, the London-based Maplecroft has launched the first online resource that spotlights plight of 600 million teenager girls around the world.
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RIGHTS: Who Is Afraid of 300 Million Miserables?
BY BAHER KAMAL*
MADRID (IDN) - There is a nation that does not appear on any map, has no name, no religion, and no borders nor laws. It is ruled by unidentified pundits and nobody recognises it. Its peoples were not born in the same land; neither do they know each other. But they are all hard workers and they certainly enrich the first world, the second world, the third world, and the international banking system.
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