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The Dead Sea, one of the 28 official finalist candidates in the online global competition to rate the New7Wonders of Nature, is currently ranked among the Top 14, according to an announcement by the New7Wonders Foundation.

The OECD Communications Outlook 2009 presents the most recent comparable data on the performance of the communication sector in OECD countries and on their policy frameworks. The 2009 edition analyses the communications sector over the years following the “dot com bubble” crisis and explores future developments. The OECD Communications Outlook provides an extensive range of [...]

For too long the world has looked at Africa as a problem, as a continent plagued by poverty, disease and endemic conflict. The time has come to look at Africa from a different and more sophisticated perspective. Above all, we need to consider Africa as an opportunity. In addition to being a major supplier of [...]

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Although Africa attracted $43 billion in private capital, $40 billion in remittances and $38 billion in aid in 2008 it still faces a considerable resource gap. Such financial support, some would argue, is needed to ensure progressive mobilisation of Africa’s domestic resources and, in turn, social and economic development. However, do the figures match [...]

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In juli 2009 verscheen de tiende uitgave van het ‘Gele Boek’. Het Gele Boek geeft een overzicht van de bijdragen die door DGOS worden geleverd aan de multilaterale organisaties voor ontwikkelingssamenwerking. De lezer vindt er een bondige beschrijving van de partners waarmee wij werken, van de bijdragen die werden gefinancierd [...]

België stelde tijdens de zomersessie van de ECOSOC-raad, die doorging van 6 tot 30 juli in Genève, zijn nieuwe multilaterale donorpolitiek voor aan de internationale gemeenschap. Core funding of de financiering van de algemene budgetten van de multilaterale partnerorganisaties, krijgt voortaan de voorkeur op earmarked funding, de financiering van apart opgezette projecten . Het nieuwe [...]

The UN refugee agency asked donor governments Friday for an additional $5 million to help thousands of Yemeni civilians caught in escalating fighting between Al Houthi rebels and the government forces in the mountains of northern Yemen.
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How to fight global poverty-effectively
By the fourth day after the October 2005 earthquake in northern Pakistan, the world had woken up to the fact that something very big had happened. The government was estimating that 50,000 or more people had been injured or killed, and many survivors were likely trapped somewhere without water or food. [...]

Professor pioneers DIY adjustable glasses that do not need an optician
It was a chance conversation on March 23 1985 (”in the afternoon, as I recall”) that first started Josh Silver on his quest to make the world’s poor see. A professor of physics at Oxford University, Silver was idly discussing optical lenses with a colleague, [...]

Where I come from in West Africa, we have a saying: “A fool at 40 is a fool forever”, and most African countries have now been independent for over 40 years.
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Money from rich countries has trapped many African nations in a cycle of corruption, slower economic growth and poverty. Cutting off the flow would be far more beneficial, says Dambisa Moyo.
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* Joint strategic framework – African Development Bank 2009-11
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* PSA Country report: Nepal
* Ghana Factsheet July 2009
* Annual Report and Resource Accounts 2008-09 volume 2
* Annual Report and Resource Accounts 2008-09 volume 1
* Working in partnership in Latin America

The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem.
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“They Want Us Exterminated”;
Murder, Torture, Sexual Orientation and Gender in Iraq
This 67-page report documents a wide-reaching campaign of extrajudicial executions, kidnappings, and torture of gay men that began in early 2009. The killings began in the vast Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, a stronghold of Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia, and spread to many cities [...]

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* Transparency International Progress Report 2009: Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
* Global Corruption Barometer 2009

By Evonne Liew
It has been nine years since the United Nations established the Millennium Development Goals, a roadmap to tackle eight critical issues: extreme poverty and hunger, universal primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability, and the creation of a global partnership for development. The noble hope was to improve the [...]

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* Europe’s World
* Global Perspectives on Teacher Learning: Improving Policy and Practice (UNESCO)

* EU-Afghanistan Country Strategy Paper (2007-2013)
* Multiannual Indicative Programme (MIP) for the period 2007-2010
* State of Play, Afghanistan
* The Afghanistan Compact

* The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2009
* IFAD annual report 2008
* Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa
 
* Unicef Annual Report 2008
 
* UNDP Living up to its Commitments
* UNDP: The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009
* Arab Human Development Report 2009; Challenges to Human Security in the Arab [...]

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Produced by the Human Security Report Project and the World Bank, this at-a-glance guide to global security issues provides a wealth of information on armed conflicts since 1946. It maps political violence, the links between poverty and conflict, assaults on human rights – including the use of child soldiers [...]

Northern and southern Sudan have signed a deal aimed at bolstering a fragile peace accord they signed in 2005, in front of the US envoy to the country.
picture: The two sides still have major issues to thrash out

Humanitarian work typically takes place in conflict zones, or following natural disasters, or in remote areas where food is scarce and the need for immediate assistance is high. Grain sacks are hauled and distributed, life-saving vaccinations are given, and temporary shelters are found.

For nearly two and a half years, Roselidah Ondeko has been at work in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), helping local women find their voices to speak out about the epidemic of gender-based sexual and physical violence in the region.Roselidah is employed by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and coordinates the programme [...]

The Operation in Gaza – Factual and Legal Aspects

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I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. This detailed Paper discusses a range of factual and international legal issues relating to the military operation undertaken by the Israel Defence Forces (“IDF”) in Gaza in December 2008 – January 2009 (the “Gaza Operation”).

By Karin Kloosterman
A joint Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian biofuel project is intended to alleviate thousands of tons of organic waste and produce one million barrels of biofuel, powering peace in the Middle East.
picture: The new factory brokered by three peace foundations will transform biomass waste from farm land into biofuel.

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Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2009

Een hooggeplaatste ambtenaar van de regering van Botswana heeft toegegeven dat de Kalahari Bosjesmannen van hun land waren gedeporteerd om plaats te maken voor de aanleg van een diamantmijn. Dat staat in een nieuw boek dat deze maand uitkomt.

The European Commission has allocated €9 million to safeguard access to food for vulnerable people affected by the breakdown of essential services in Zimbabwe. The funds will be channelled through the Commission’s Humanitarian Aid department under the direct responsibility of Commissioner Karel De Gucht.
Karel De Gucht, Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, said: “Though the [...]

EC support to Afghanistan’s current elections
Afghanistan is set to hold presidential and provincial council polls on 20 August 2009 and National Assembly and district elections in 2010. These elections present a formidable challenge because of the recent history of the country, the youth of the democratic institutions and the deteriorating security situation and the fractured [...]

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Deep Joshi, lid van ICCO’s Regionale Raad van Zuid Azie, heeft de prestigieuze Magsaysay Award, de Aziatische equivalent van de Nobelprijs gewonnen. Joshi wordt erkend voor zijn ‘visie en leiderschap bij het professionaliseren van de ngo beweging in India en het effectief combineren van hoofd en hart bij de ontwikkeling van plattelandsgemeenschappen’, aldus het juryrapport.

Nu we in het vakantieseizoen zitten noemt Survival International drie bestemmingen die volgens de organisatie helemaal niet op uw vakantielijstje zouden moeten staan:

Barefoot Resort, Zuid-Andamanen, India
Centrale Kalahari Wildreservaat, Botswana
‘Eerste contact’ expedities, West Papoea

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In het zuidoosten van Burkina Faso kunnen vanaf vandaag vele plattelandsbewoners genieten van licht na zonsondergang. In dit gebied waar 98% van de bevolking geen toegang heeft tot elektriciteit, kan de lokale bevolking gebruik maken van zonne-energiesystemen. Hiervoor heeft de Nederlandse stichting FRES (Foundation Rural Energy Services) een lokaal elektriciteitsbedrijf opgericht in de provincie Kénédougou. [...]

ICCO en Milieudefensie verwelkomen de schatting van de internationale klimaatkosten die Minister Cramer van het ministerie van VROM gisteren heeft gedaan. De minister schat dat in 2020 ongeveer 100 miljard dollar per jaar nodig is voor klimaatmaatregelen en is van mening dat die toezeggingen niet ten koste mogen gaan van het budget voor ontwikkelingshulp. “Nederland [...]