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Wednesday 8 May 2013, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Auditorium Jacques Freymond, Site Barton, 132 rue de Lausanne, 1202 Geneva, 18:30 Entrance is free however we kindly request you to register
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Some of the poorest people in the world are becoming significantly less poor, according to a groundbreaking academic study which has taken a new approach to measuring deprivation. The report, by Oxford University's poverty and human development initiative, predicts that countries among the most impoverished in the world could see acute poverty eradicated within 20 years if they continue at present rates.
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The name “water diet” suggests that you should consume as much water as possible. But the opposite is true. This term is used to make people aware of the most essential problem regarding wasting water: “eating (virtual) water”.
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India’s prime minister demanded on Wednesday that Italy return two marines accused of killing a pair of fishermen last year or “there will be consequences”....
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«Plus les femmes sont instruites et leurs droits reconnus, moins les enfants ont faim» remarque Olivier De Schutter, rapporteur des Nations unies pour le droit à l’alimentation dans un rapport publié lundi, à quelques jours de la Journée de la femme
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Les images satellite ne peuvent pas mentir. L’ONG Human Rights Watch y recourt de plus en plus pour étayer ses enquêtes, notamment sur la Birmanie, le Sri Lanka et la Syrie
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The African diaspora in the UK could play a key role in malaria prevention awareness in countries where the disease is endemic
In 2011, the UK's Health Protection Agency recorded 1,677 cases of malaria in the country.
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The Latin American countries that have performed the best in recent decades are those that have steered clear of both right-wing zealotry and left-wing populism.
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Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva (right) and Marloes Nicholls (left) crunch the numbers to find that big land investments sniff out countries with ‘weak governance’ – aka no accountability, no regulation, no rule of law, and a green light for corruption.
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Agreement of €34bn cut, the first in EU history, will leave organisation struggling to meet 0.7% aid target
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Oxfam private sector adviser Erinch Sahan (right) summarizes a critical new review of the growing interlinkages between aid and the private sector
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Plus de dix mille personnes ont, en l’espace d’une semaine, demandé au Conseil fédéral qu’il entreprenne enfin des pas concrets pour que les multinationales suisses soient obligées de respecter les droits humains et les standards environnementaux...
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The global economy this year will exhibit some similarities with conditions prevailing in 2012 – no surprise there.
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Join our live chat, Friday 19 April at 1pm BST, to share best practice in international volunteerism
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For Ricken Patel, co-founder and executive director of the online campaign group Avaaz, the focus on the most marginalised in developing countries too often overlooks the role of educated, middle-class groups, which he argues have "the most power, right now, to effect political change in their countries".
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Why Beijing’s declining global prestige matters, and how to get it back.
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Qu'est ce que la pauvreté ? Si celle-ci paraît être un phénomène visible, concret, aisément reconnaissable, surtout dans le contexte des pays en voie de développement, elle n'en reste pas moins un concept difficilement définissable et mesurable. Pauvre, mais privé de quoi ? Manque de ressources, manque d'éducation, absence de sécurité ? L'objet même de la pauvreté demeure aujourd'hui difficile à déterminer...
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Les électeurs kényans se sont déplacés en masse pour le premier tour de la présidentielle. Un des candidats, Uhuru Kenyatta, est poursuivi par la Cour pénale internationale pour des crimes liés au scrutin de 2007
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Alle Ausgaben der deutschen Entwicklungshilfe auf einen Blick und im Detail.
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Remittances – money sent home by migrants to family and friends – have soared to record levels. Explore the World Bank's latest estimates of how much money is sent, and where, and take a deeper look at the impact of remittances in Ghana, Liberia, Tajikistan and Bangladesh
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The European Union is edging towards releasing €250 million of frozen development aid to Mali to help restore the authority of central government.
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Policymakers need to step in to reduce transaction costs on migrant workers' remittances. Massimo Cirasino suggests how
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A team of doctors, epidemiologists and quantitative analysts are at the Kumbh Mela, a gathering of up to 100 million religious pilgrims in India, to study when, where and how they fall ill.
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Plus de 75 organisations non gouvernementales suisses ont créé la «Plateforme droits humains». Son but est d’intensifier le travail en faveur des droits humains et d’agir pour l’établissement d’une institution nationale des droits humains indépendante.
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In place of the searching global conversation we need, we have an anaesthetised debate Something is lacking in the efforts to design a new global development framework.
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