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Actress Claire Danes joins thumbprint mosaic in Save the Children's EVERY ONE campaign

Emmy award winning actress Claire Danes will join millions of people who've added their thumbprints to an innovative and unique global petition at Grand Central Terminal, lead by global humanitarian organisation Save the Children.

20 Sep 2010

Study finds mothers' education levels affect child mortality

A study published in the journal Lancet on Friday found that "a mother's education level has a huge, if indirect, effect on the health of her children," the Washington Post reports.

18 Sep 2010

Opinions: Bachelet appointment; Sanitation MDG; Women's education; Smallholder farms

The appointment of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to head U.N. Women is an "excellent choice" that "adds stature and star power to the agenda for gender equality," according to a Los Angeles Times editorial.

18 Sep 2010

U.S. special envoy to Pakistan highlights U.S. flood relief efforts

Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to Pakistan, sought to highlight Washington's aid efforts Wednesday during his first visit to the country since the severe floods hit, the Associated Press reports.

17 Sep 2010

Guardian launches global development website

The Guardian on Tuesday launched a new website that will cover global development issues, such as hunger and infant mortality, according to an introductory note on the site (Bunting, 9/14).

15 Sep 2010

Opinions: Global nursing; U.S. funding of Global Fund; Global demands for water; Food security

"Almost every nation, regardless of its wealth and resources, faces a continuing shortage of nurses and an acute lack of nursing faculty available to educate more nurses. This dearth of practicing nurses and nurse educators is particularly critical in countries like Haiti and other developing high-risk, low-resourced nations," Martha Hill, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, writes in a Baltimore Sun opinion piece encouraging the expansion of global nursing.

15 Sep 2010

News outlets examine MDGs challenges: Communicating to public, NGOs charge draft declaration falls short

AllAfrica.com reports on a "fellowship hosted by the U.N. Foundation" last week "to educate the media about progress that has been made on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) thus far and what still needs to be done before the 2015 target date for achieving them."

14 Sep 2010

World Water Week urges MDG summit to highlight water, sanitation

The 20th World Water Week Friday issued a statement calling on the forthcoming High Level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals to pay more attention to water and sanitation at its concluding session,Xinhua reports.

13 Sep 2010

Inter Press Service examines World Water Week's focus on 'dirty water'

Inter Press Service reports on the ongoing talks at World Water Week over "the widespread devastation caused to humans by polluted water."The article offers statistics on the health problems faced by the "more than 900 million" people without access to safe drinking water and the "estimated 2.6 billion" without access to basic sanitation.

10 Sep 2010

Focusing on most disadvantaged children more cost-effective than current strategies, UNICEF reports say

UNICEF on Tuesday said that by "comparing the effectiveness of different strategies for aid delivery, targeting the poorest and neediest children could save more lives per $1 million spent than the current path," Reuters reports (Charbonneau, 9/7).

9 Sep 2010

World Water Week: Urbanization, irrigation, global food security

"Global efforts to improve access to drinking water have been hampered by rapid urbanisation, with the proportion of people in urban areas with access actually declining, according to U.N. figures presented" at the World Water Week conference in Stockholm, Agence France-Presse reports.

9 Sep 2010

Ahead of U.N. MDG Summit, media outlets examine various aspects of goals

Ahead of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit on September 20-22, the media examines different aspects of the MDGs.

7 Sep 2010

World Water Week kicks off with a focus on pollution, quality

A group of over 2,500 leading water experts from 130 countries gathered in Stockholm on Sunday to kick off World Water Week, where they will focus on "increasing water pollution and dwindling water quality around the globe," Agence France-Presse reports (Larson, 9/5).

7 Sep 2010

U.N.-NGO meeting concludes with participants calling on world leaders to do more for MDGs

A group of more than 350 non-governmental organizations concluded a U.N. forum in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday with a call for world leaders to step up their commitments to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Rose, 9/1).

3 Sep 2010

Regional Director of WHO Africa warns of impact global financial situation will have on health systems, MDGs

Regional Director of WHO for Africa Luis Sambo discussed during the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO how the global economic situation could impact funding for health programs in Africa and the ability for countries to reach U.N. Millennium Development Goal targets, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports.

3 Sep 2010

World Bank calls for more integrated approach to global water management

"We can't properly tackle global priorities of food security, renewable energy, adaptation to climate change, public health and urbanization unless we manage water better," Julia Bucknall, water sector manager for the World Bank, said, according to a World Bank press release.

1 Sep 2010

Cameroon rolls out emergency cholera plan as region's outbreak continues

Cameroon will need approximately $4.8 million for its emergency response to the cholera outbreak, which has killed nearly 300 people in the northern part of the country, Agence France-Presse reports.

27 Aug 2010

Elsevier, KIT sign MoU to provide developing country researchers access to ScienceDirect and Scopus

Elsevier and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam announced on 26th of August the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) providing 150 researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries (for example Benin, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Togo etc.) with access to ScienceDirect and Scopus, Elsevier's online scientific research platform and flagship abstract and citation database.

27 Aug 2010

At least 3.5M Pakistanis have no access to clean water, raising risk for waterborne diseases

UNICEF estimates that about 3.5 million Pakistanis only have access to contaminated water, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday in a statement, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. Approximately 2.5 million flood survivors now have access clean water (Gale, 8/26).

27 Aug 2010

Diarrhea, skin diseases increase among children in flood-affected areas of Pakistan: Survey

World Vision says assessments conducted over the last few days near the towns of Muzaffar Garh and Kot Addo in Punjab paint a bleak picture of the impact of the flooding. The Christian humanitarian organization says its reports from Sukkur in the Sindh Province are equally dire. Contaminated water, cramped living conditions and a lack of sanitation are contributing to a rapid increase in cases of diarrhea and skin diseases in children.

25 Aug 2010

Sanitization News and Research

Actress Claire Danes joins thumbprint mosaic in Save the Children's EVERY ONE campaign

Study finds mothers' education levels affect child mortality

Opinions: Bachelet appointment; Sanitation MDG; Women's education; Smallholder farms

U.S. special envoy to Pakistan highlights U.S. flood relief efforts

Guardian launches global development website

Opinions: Global nursing; U.S. funding of Global Fund; Global demands for water; Food security

News outlets examine MDGs challenges: Communicating to public, NGOs charge draft declaration falls short

World Water Week urges MDG summit to highlight water, sanitation

Inter Press Service examines World Water Week's focus on 'dirty water'

Focusing on most disadvantaged children more cost-effective than current strategies, UNICEF reports say

World Water Week: Urbanization, irrigation, global food security

Ahead of U.N. MDG Summit, media outlets examine various aspects of goals

World Water Week kicks off with a focus on pollution, quality

U.N.-NGO meeting concludes with participants calling on world leaders to do more for MDGs

Regional Director of WHO Africa warns of impact global financial situation will have on health systems, MDGs

World Bank calls for more integrated approach to global water management

Cameroon rolls out emergency cholera plan as region's outbreak continues

Elsevier, KIT sign MoU to provide developing country researchers access to ScienceDirect and Scopus

At least 3.5M Pakistanis have no access to clean water, raising risk for waterborne diseases

Diarrhea, skin diseases increase among children in flood-affected areas of Pakistan: Survey

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