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Another Bloggers Unite event in support of Millennium Development Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS and other diseases

Over the coming months, Devex will host a global conversation on each of the eight Millennium Development Goals - we want you to share your success stories, thoughts on what obstacles remain, and ideas for how the development community is Making the Millennium Development Goals Happen.

Four salvos later, more than half of the Eurisko ships had been sunk but their commander, Douglas B. Lent, was preparing to accept the enemy's offer of surrender. Despite its huge losses, the lumbering Eurisko fleet had destroyed all but one of the opposition's highly vaunted high-tech ships. The battle had ended.

Looks like an interesting post but not seeing any connection to the Millennium Development Goals. If you are just trying to get exposure there are more efficient means. Join BlogCatalog and similar organizations or think about starting your own group. The purpose of starting a group on a particular issue is to stay focused as possible.

To test their theory, the two astronomers studied flu outbreaks in British boarding schools. They found that flu did not spread from dormitory to dormitory, as one might think. Instead, out-breaks began randomly in different dormitories, as they might if they had been caused by organisms they might if they had been caused by organisms drifting through the atmosphere. In addition a flu epidemic in Sardinia in 1948 followed the same pattern.

Sorry about not getting you in the group sooner. I did not realize that I had to approve anybody. So please explain a bit more clearly what this has to do with the Millennium Development Goals?

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Fits in with Millennium Development Goal 2. Universal Education and is another Bloggers Unite event

The mission of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors.

Another one of the UN global organizations working to help the most afflicted across the world. The funding of their work and other organizations to the level promised by the Millennium Declaration would make the Millennium Development Goals a reality. This is my post that featured OCHA http://anewmillennium.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-unicf-haiti-earthquake-situation.html and my post on Haiti http://anewmillennium.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-tragedy-and-heroism-of-mdgs-under.html

The Committee that will be reviewing the Foreign Assistance Act, which is an important component in America's effort to help in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

S 1425 seeks to increase the economic empowerment of women in developing countries through assistance for women in developing countries with respect to: (1) microenterprises; (2) small and medium enterprises; (3) private property rights and land tenure security Close Official Summary 7/9/2009--Introduced.Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act of 2009 or GROWTH Act of 2009 - Targets assistance for women in developing countries with respect to: (1) microenterprises; (2) small and medium enterprises; (3) private property rights and land tenure security; (4) employment access; (5) trade benefits; (6) exchanges with U.S. entrepreneurs; and (7) Millennium Challenge Account assistance. Directs the Secretary of State to establish the Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive (GROWTH) Fund to enhance economic opportunities for very poor, poor, and low-income women in developing countries with a focus on: (1) increasing women-owned enterprise development; (2) increasing property rights for women; (3) increasing women's access to financial services; (4) increasing women in leadership in implementing organizations as well as financial service providers; (5) improving women's employment benefits and conditions; and (6) increasing women's ability to benefit from global trade. Directs the Secretary, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to: (1) provide support for tracking indicators on women's employment, property rights, access to financial services, and enterprise development; and (2) ensure foreign assistance project proposals include capacity building and technical assistance for local, indigenous, nongovernmental, organizations and community-based organizations dedicated to addressing the needs of women and women's organizations. featured in a recent post http://bit.ly/aCzznX

Objectives The United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) was created in 1975 by several agencies of the United Nations system to serve as a bridge between the UN and civil society organizations. It was established on the belief that meaningful civil society engagement in UN processes and deliberations is essential for the realization of the goals of the Organization and the pursuit of global democratic governance. The goal of NGLS is to strengthen the relations between the United Nations and civil society. Given its distinctive UN inter-agency nature, NGLS is uniquely placed to foster dialogue and greater coherence around the main issues on the UN agenda (development, human rights, environment, peace and security, and humanitarian affairs).

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. The Conference was organized in response to the food crises of the early 1970s that primarily affected the Sahelian countries of Africa. The conference resolved that "an International Fund for Agricultural Development should be established immediately to finance agricultural development projects primarily for food production in the developing countries". One of the most important insights emerging from the conference was that the causes of food insecurity and famine were not so much failures in food production, but structural problems relating to poverty and to the fact that the majority of the developing world's poor populations were concentrated in rural areas.

Women Thrive develops, shapes, and advocates for policies that foster economic opportunity for women living in poverty. We focus on making U.S. international assistance and trade programs prioritize women. We bring together a diverse coalition of over 50 organizations and 40,000 individuals united in the belief that women are the key to ending global poverty, and empowering them is not only right, it's also the most effective long-term solution to world poverty. Featured in a recent post http://bit.ly/aCzznX supporting S 1425 GROWTH http://bit.ly/bb1oEI

A United Nations event highlighting the basic means of getting the word out about the need for and the challenges of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Another Bloggers Unite event

About Our Organization We invite you to explore the following pages to learn more about ACCION's leadership - men and women at the forefront of the microfinance industry - whose energy and enthusiasm are behind our every effort in the fight against poverty. In addition to our Board of Directors and Management Team, ACCION is fortunate to count among its leadership ranks the President's Council and Women's Leadership Network - all dedicated supporters who lend their financial and professional resources to ACCION's mission. Featured in a post bit.ly/aCzznX supporting S1425 GROWTH http://bit.ly/bb1oEI

Quote from paper: A successor accord to the Kyoto Protocol was supposed to be wrapped up in Copenhagen in December 2009, but negotiations are now expected to extend through the South African UNFCCC conference in 2011 since the Copenhagen talks failed to yield a binding agreement. To reach a comprehensive deal, major gaps between developing and developed countries must be narrowed. The gaps include the character of common but differentiated responsibilities, financial support, technology transfer, and trade subsidies and sanctions. The paper concludes with some options and recommendations.

A United Nations event to focus on the UNFPA. Population impacts are 8 of the Millennium Development Goals. This Bloggers Unite event focuses on the work of the UNFPA

Freedom of Expression is a fundamental human right as stated in Article 19 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. This is especially worth recalling as we mark the 60th anniversary of that declaration. It is essential to the efforts to implement the Millennium Development Goals both for those developed democracies that must take the lead and those under regimes that refuse to fulfill the needs of their people