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- Stop marketing health in poor countries, Oxfam tells WB
- Oxfam's new report has crticised the World Bank and many international donors for scaling up privatised health-care delivery in poor countries. The research ...
- UN and the Afghan government urge for aid
- Food crisis in Afghanistan is deepening by the day. Afghan government has expressed its inability to tackle the food insecurity on its own and has appealed ...
- UN increases aid and staff in Afghanistan
- To reach out to all needy communities, the UN has decided to strengthen its Assistance Mission in Afghanistan by doubling its budget and increasing the staff. ...
- Afghanistan not prepared for winter
- With the snowfall imminent anytime, Afghan government and aid agencies have not yet completed the exercise of pre-positioning essential relief supplies. It is ...
- UN chief speaks of perilous times
- Delivering the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Lecture in the Indian capital, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon delved on several issues that the world is grappling with, from ...
- Government to ensure supply for trapped civilians
- Sri Lankan government has said that maintaining food supply for the quarter of a million affected Tamilian population in the war-torn areas is its top ...
- Disabled people await post-cyclone aid
- More than 30,000 cyclone-affected people with physical disabilities living in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta are in urgent need of help. Very little of ...
- Euro 4.5 million aid for Kosi flood victims
- The European Commission has allocated a further Euro 4.5 million in aid for flood victims in Bihar, India and Nepal. It had earlier moved quickly to provide ...
- Cyclone-hit Myanmar monasteries need repair
- Cyclone Nargis had destroyed hundreds of monasteries that played an important social, cultural, educational and religious role in Myanmar. Many of them are in ...
- Fresh loan to stabilise Pakistan economy
- In times of global financial crisis, Pakistan’s dwindling economy has been savoured for the time being with a fresh loan of $7.6 billion from the International ...
- 'World is too big to be saved by China'
- When China announced its US$ 586 billion stimulus package earlier this month, it was dubbed as the biggest ever recovery plan of peacetime to rescue the world ...
- Make way for fair trade, says Millennium Campaign
- Ahead of the conference on Financing for Development in Doha this weekend, the United Nations Millennium Campaign has called upon rich countries to commit to a ...
- Tackling inequities in education
- Despite the efforts to improve access to education, inequalities are still entrenched around the globe, notes UNESCO’s latest Education For All Global ...
- 'Public accountability on MDGs is growing'
- Poor around the world remain powerless in wake of privatisation of basic services, corruption and inefficiency says Salil Shetty, Director, UN ...
- Global financial crisis threatens MDG realisation
- Experts feel the prevailing global economic crisis will discourage donors to continue with the current aid despite the promise of fresh allocation of US$16 ...
- Sri Lanka's war budget draws flak
- Mounting offensive operations against the LTTE, the strife-torn island nation has increased its defence spending to an all time high. While reflecting concerns ...
- Millennium Campaign calls for $300 billion bailout of world's poor
- Ahead of tomorrow's G-20 economic summit in Washington, the UN Millennium Campaign has called on the world leaders to commit a bailout package of $300 billion ...
- Developing world blames West for crisis
- Developing nations gathered at the Doha conference were unanimous in criticising rich western powers for plunging the world into the current financial crisis. ...
- Pakistan quake victims living in subzero temperatures
- In Balochistan province, victims of October earthquake are in urgent need of winterised tents and shelters as the temperatures plummet below zero. The ...
- Human rights must guide crisis, report finds
- The current financial architecture has ignored human rights triggering spiralling inequity worldwide argues a latest report by an international NGO watchdog. ...
- NGO provides succour to Kosi flood victims
- For Kosi flood victims in eastern India, dawn may still not be in sight but some organisations coming to their rescue have kept their hopes afloat. An NGO ...
- Donor supported law making in India
- Social Watch India has released the first perspective paper titled: Law Under Globalization. Providing an insight into recent trends in both law ...
- 'Sheer poverty and hunger claim 50,000 deaths everyday'
- Lack of urgency in funding development in the South is but a case of ‘subliminal racism’, says Kumi Naidoo, secretary general and CEO of CIVICUS and ...
- Afghanistan high on US agenda under new president
- Drought affected areas of Afghanistan hold no promise for people except perhaps the rising insurgency. With millions reeling under food shortage, whether the ...
- Donor frustration over IDP camps in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan government has tightened its grip on the internally displaced people living in camps. Donors are saying that they are less likely to provide funding ...
- No donor support for tackling poor man's diseases
- Diseases that are seen as “ancient companion of poverty” remain neglected when it comes to global funding. Pneumonia, buruli ulcer, yaws, cholera and ...
- Global meltdown leaves NGO sector in dire straits
- Non-profit sector the world over is under severe stress due to the economic recession and the future too appears bleak. Many NGOs are resorting to cutbacks in ...
- Inexplicable bailouts; explicable poverty
- Contrast the figure of two trillion dollars dispersed for poverty alleviation over last 50 years with 18 trillion that the world has spent in last one year in ...
- Political instability undermining development in Nepal
- Political instability and weak governance in Nepal are hampering development initiatives, aid workers and analysts have warned. They say that it can worsen ...
- UN revises fund for population programmes
- Last week, the UN Commission on Population and Development revised the investment fund for population programmes worldwide to US$ 64.7 billion, triple the ...
