Baseline report, Nkwanta District, Ghana. Maternal and infant mortality in Ghana are acceptably high. CHPS (the Community-based Health Planning and Services project) was launched by the government and assigns trained nurses to live in rural villages and become members of these communities. Projects like CHPS are hoped to contributed to the improvements in maternal and child health and achieving the internationally established goals such as MDGs. GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) is more...

Full-title: Guidance on Global Scale-Up of the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Towards universal access for women, infants and young children and eliminating HIV and AIDS among children.
"This publication was developed by the Interagency Task Team on Prevention of HIV Transmission in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Children in response to the slow overall progress to scale up prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in resource-constrained settings. It pr more...

25 November 2007 – Denouncing violence against women as "one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has vowed to lead a campaign against the scourge. In a message marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, commemorated on 25 November, Mr. Ban hailed progress in addressing the issue, but said there is "so much left to do to tear down the veil of tolerance which still sometime more...

2007 Campaign Theme - Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles: End Violence Against Women. Since 1991, the 16 Days Campaign has helped to raise awareness about gender violence and has highlighted its effects on women globally. Each year, thousands of activists from all over the world utilize the campaign to further their work to end violence against women. The campaign has celebrated victories gained by women's rights movements, it has challenged policies and practices that allow women t more...

In 1991, a group of women activists came together at a meeting hosted by the Centre for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) in New Jersey and decided they were going to do something about gender-based violence. The women didn't aim to just come up with theories, discussions and dialogues; they wanted to create something more action-oriented and wide-ranging—something that would really make a difference.

The result was the annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign, currently i more...

A new partnership has been launched to address the declining state of the world's fresh water supply and the lack of access to clean water services by the world's poorest people. The Global Water Initiative (GWI) brings together a group of seven leading international organisations: Action Against Hunger-USA, CARE, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), The World Conservation Union (IUCN), International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Oxfam America and SOS Sahel - UK.

The announceme more...

"The report provides evidence of the mechanisms through with the ecological impacts of climate change will be transmitted to the poor. Focusing on the 2.6 billion people surviving on less than US$2 a day, the authors warn forces unleashed by global warming could stall and then reverse progress built up over generations. Among the threats to human development identified by Fighting climate change:

- The breakdown of agricultural systems as a result of increased exposure to drought, rising te more...

Remarks by Richard Vokes, Country Director - Asian Development Bank, Colombo, Sri Lanka - 19 November 2007.
"First, let me say that it is a pleasure and privilege to be at this event to launch this third overview report reviewing progress towards the achievement of the MDGs in the Asia Pacific Region that has been prepared together with UNESCAP, UNDP and the ADB. These three reports have been supplemented by other more sector and issue specific reports such as those on Water, Gender and Inequ more...

From Council of Europe website-
[22/11/2007 11:30:00] In his welcome address for the Conference of European Health Ministers in Bratislava, Secretary General, Terry Davis said that proper healthcare for people on the move is an ethical, but also a social and economic imperative. "The co-ordinated and scientifically endorsed measures in these areas will be important in promoting the well-being of everyone and facilitating the integration of migrants within communities," added Ivan Valentovic, Mi more...

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