UN Womenwatch | Rural Women - Facts & Figures: Rural Women and the Millennium Developme... - 1 views
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Hiroki Takahashi on 06 Nov 12Figures for the Millennium Development Goals.
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Sustainable Development Norway - 0 views
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Includes development strategies as well as environmental management strategies.
The Millennium Development Goals: Achievements and Challenges - 1 views
New 'promising' malaria vaccine developed | Business Standard - 0 views
Nestlé is draining developing countries' groundwater - 1 views
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Nestlé is draining developing countries' groundwater to make its Pure Life bottled water, destroying countries' natural resources. Now Nestlé is moving into Pakistan and sucking up the local water supply, rendering entire areas uninhabitable in order to sell mineral-enriched water to the upper class as a status symbol, while the poor watch wells run dry and their children fall ill.
BBC News - 7 billion people and you: What's your number? - 0 views
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In developing nations, where improvements in health care and sanitation are seeing death rates fall, birth rates still remain relatively high. This is leading to rapidly rising populations. In fact, 97 out of every 100 new people on the planet are currently born in developing countries.
Obesity quadruples to nearly one billion in developing world - 4 views
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The number of overweight and obese adults in the developing world has almost quadrupled to around one billion since 1980, says a report from a UK think tank
Who creates harmony the world over? Women. Who signs peace deals? Men - 1 views
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Around the world, women make peace in their homes and communities on a daily basis. But when it comes to negotiating and signing peace deals on a national or international level they are almost universally shut out, according to a report that calls for a more balanced approach to resolving conflict.
Decline of Zimbabwe - The National - 1 views
