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“We sing poverty goodbye,†a young African girl in a school uniform says. Then, the choir sets in. Men and women dressed in white sing to tell the story of injustice and poverty – and the need to change—in the Poverty Requiem , a new musical piece for choir and percussion....
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Aug 02, 2007
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from The Sydney Morning Herald NEW YORK: The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "moral" crusade to deliver global pledges to tackle poverty and disease in the developing world. Mr Brown said he wanted the world to evoke the "same spirit" that saw John F. Kennedy call...
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Aug 02, 2007
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Take action and send Gordon Brown an email asking him to be bold and put the fight against poverty, climate change and its impact on the poorest, and a just foreign policy firmly on the table during his first 100 days as Prime Minister. While Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown...
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Aug 01, 2007
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Tony Blair's recent successor, gave a speech at the UN headquarters on Tuesday, appealing to world leaders to hasten progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Brown discussed the immediate need for international unity to end extreme poverty by 2015, as a new 2007 UN progress...
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Jul 31, 2007
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from The Sydney Morning Herald For the AIDS orphans of a Malawi border town, local clay and sand are the building blocks of a sustainable future, Steve Meacham writes. Construction workers in southern Malawi have a traditional way of building homes. They'll dig a big pit, shape bricks by hand, cover...
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Jul 31, 2007
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from The Guardian Unofficial deportations, extortion and poverty thrive in Thai frontier town Ian MacKinnon in Mae Sot The Guardian Two trucks with cages crammed with Burmese migrant workers halt abruptly beside the Thai-Burmese frontier's river landing stage. Detainees, standing and sitting, are pressed hard against one another and the wire...
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Jul 31, 2007
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from the BBC UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to call for a greater international effort to combat Aids and poverty in a speech at the UN. Mr Brown wants world leaders to live up to their Millennium promises made seven years ago to tackle a range of issues. He...
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Jul 31, 2007
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I came back from R&R a few weeks ago ready to go—well almost! I admit that it was a bit difficult to face coming back to a remote area after a lovely week in Kenya. I armed myself with a supply of chocolate to ease the transition and returned to the...
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Jul 30, 2007
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Effectiveness of Official Development Assistance (ODA) has to be increased in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One important step in this regard would be to limit the appropriation of Aid money for consultants and experts from countries providing the support. Often large chunks of ODA is used to...
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