Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN MDG Stories (WNN/IRIN) GLOBAL: In a world where more than half of the population lives in cities, poverty is increasingly an urban phenomenon. As researchers and aid agencies struggle to distinguish between chronic poverty and acute vulnerability IRIN, a humanitarian news service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reviewed efforts [...]
Emma Batha – WNN Breaking (WNN/Reuters/AlertNet) London, UNITED KINGDOM: Annual maternal deaths have fallen by almost half since 1990 and the number of children under five dying has dropped from 12 million to 7.6 million (2010). But more than 50 countries are unlikely to meet internationally agreed targets for cutting mortality rates for young children [...]
Claire Leigh - WNN MDG Stories (WNN/GD/PMB) London, UNITED KINGDOM: The latest edition of Foreign Policy magazine contains the 2012 edition of the notorious Failed States Index (FSI). This annual compendium of failure is produced in collaboration with the Fund for Peace. It makes for depressing reading at the best of times, especially when published alongside [...]
Dr. Maurizio Farhan-Ferrari – WNN MDG Stories (WNN/LPFN) GLOBAL: Two peer-reviewed studies published recently by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the World Bank show that strict conservation is less effective in reducing deforestation than community forests that are managed and controlled by indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities within multiple use systems. This [...]
Jayati Ghosh - WNN MDG Stories (WNN) ASIA: We know that economic growth and human development do not always go hand in hand, as evidenced by the very different position of countries in per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rankings compared with human development rankings. But the link between health conditions and economic growth is usually [...]
