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20-11-2009
Bundelkhand region in India has been reeling under drought for quite some time now. The central government’s special drought mitigation package of more than Rs 70 billion for the next three years promises to bring relief to the people.
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18-11-2009
Escalating food prices have thrust the poor into deeper poverty and hunger in Pakistan, making them rely on soup kitchens. The ongoing World Food Summit in Rome has rekindled hopes of generating action from the international community to tackle hunger worldwide.
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Image: Soup kitchens have come to the rescue of many hungry/ Photo credit: IPS
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16-11-2009
A recently released ministry of rural development report in India blames the government and companies like Tata and Essar for a corporate takeover in the hinterland of Chhattisgarh. It claims that it is the ‘the biggest grab of tribal lands after Columbus.’
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12-11-2009
The Food and Agriculture Organisation yesterday called for a day-long global hunger strike ahead of next week’s World Summit on Food Security. This has been done to draw attention towards the planet’s one billion people facing starvation.
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Image: FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf/ Photo credit: UN News
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10-11-2009
A prominent member of the ruling Congress Party in India Keshava Rao has thrown his weight behind a fresh model for Indian rural development. The model aims to tackle the chronic divisions between state, business and NGOs.
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Image: Congress Party leader Keshava Rao/ Photo credit: Schumacher Centre
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04-11-2009
Resentment is simmering among villagers in Maharashtra due to a proposed nuclear power plant to be set up a few hundred kilometers south of Mumbai. It will be India’s first international collaboration after the Nuclear Suppliers’ Group lifted restrictions on civil nuclear cooperation.
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26-10-2009
With 36.1 million citizens standing up and taking part in the global anti-poverty campaign for 2009, Philippines leads yet again with the largest number of people calling for action against poverty worldwide.
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22-10-2009
India showed solidarity and participated in the UN campaign: 'Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now’. More than 23 million people, up by 14 million of last year, demanded from the government to eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the MDGs.
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20-10-2009
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led the nation in pledging to remain united to develop the country by 2020. Addressing a rally in Dhaka organised as part of the UN Stand Up Campaign, she called upon all political parties to jointly fight corruption and stabilise democracy.
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Image: PM Sheikh Hasina addressing the rally/ Photo credit: Bangladesh News 24
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20-10-2009
Participating in the UN Stand Up 2009 Campaign, Nepal president Ram Baran Yadav expressed solidarity with the global efforts to fight against poverty and inequality. He pledged to make the country free of disease and maternal deaths and ensure quality education for all.
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Image: Nepal president Ram Baran Yadav (middle) at the Stand Up event in Kathmandu/ Photo credit: Flickr
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