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Andrea Law

WorldMapper - 7 views

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    Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
kels_giroux

Oxfam Education: Resources index | Change the World in Eight Steps - 6 views

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    Posters, lesson ideas, and information on MDGS
Clint Hamada

Millennium Development Goal 4 - Reduce Child Mortality - YouTube - 2 views

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    Currently, about 26,000 children under five die each day, mostly frompreventable causes.
John Haug

Hans Rosling: The good news of the decade? - 2 views

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    Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.
Melissa Griffin

Shake the world - MDG activities - 5 views

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    Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!
Melissa Griffin

OECD video on busan and MDG progress - short and good - 3 views

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    With some two billion people living in poverty, without clean water and sanitation or access to schooling and healthcare, it's clear that development has to work better to improve people's lives. The Forth High-level Forum in Busan aims to make that happen.
John Haug

Female Education Reduces Infant and Childhood Deaths - 3 views

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    The single biggest factor, by far, in reducing the rate of death among children younger than five is greater education for women. In all countries worldwide, whether females increase schooling from 10 years to 11, say, or two years to three, infant mortality declines, according to a recent study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
mark ginder

Millenium Development Goals for 2015 - 2 views

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    Millenium Development Goals Introduction Video
Melissa Griffin

100 People: A World Portrait - 3 views

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    Bill Gates meets 10 Intel ISEF studentsat Techonomy for the 100 People project The 100 People Foundation is a global education toolbox. By framing the world population as a community of 100 people, we help students to better understand the complex issues facing our planet and the resources we share.
Andrea Law

Infographics - 2 views

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    Some excellent infographics by the Gates foundation
kels_giroux

SUTA - 1 views

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    MDG Chase - A game to learn about the MDGs
Melissa Griffin

Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time - 1 views

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    Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this is just a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate.
Andrea Law

United Nations in Vietnam - 3 views

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    This website is the UN in Vietnam and looks at each MDG from a local perspective!
Melissa Griffin

StatPlanet Map Maker - Interactive Mapping & Visualization Software - 0 views

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    StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics. StatPlanet can be freely and easily hosted on your own website. It is lightweight, lightning fast, and makes exploring large data sets easy, fun and highly interactive.
kels_giroux

Home - Poverty Over - Christian Aid - 0 views

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    Really cool interactive world map that shows evolution of devlopment / poverty over last 200 years. You can view the world, or specific regions.
Clint Hamada

7 billion human beings: Why gender equality matters more than ever! « Gender-... - 3 views

  • Especially for girls and young women,  access to family planning, to contraception, to education and to the formal labour market is crucial not only for improving their own living conditions, but also in terms of demographic dynamics.
  • improving women’s access to the formal labour market as well as to health care and education is particularly important, as investments in these areas are likely to lead to later marriages, less teenage pregnancies and more stable family structures.
Melissa Griffin

Food Force: The First Humanitarian Video Game | WFP | United Nations World Food Program... - 0 views

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    Since its release in 2005, WFP's video game to teach children about the logistical challenges of delivering food aid in a major humanitarian crisis has been downloaded over 6 million times, and has an estimated network of 10 million players worldwide!
Andrea Law

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 0 views

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    Universal Declaration of Human Rights in every language
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