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2006
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Development Assistance & Foreign Aids
H1 - Millennium Development Goal 8: Indicators for International Human Rights Obligations?
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Human Rights Quarterly, Nov 2006,v28, #4, p966-, 33p
“Millennium Development Coal 8 is arguably the most significant step since the Covenant on Economic Social Rights in taking the idea of global solidarity and international responsibilities for development from a statement of principle to international policy. It commits the international community to strengthen partnership for poverty reduction, and defines benchmark targets and indicators of progress. This article examines this goal as a human rights tool to measure progress and hold states accountable.” Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Visiting Professor of International Affairs at the New School University. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. From 1995 to 2004, she was director of the United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Reports. Fulltext
H2 - Fair Trade? How Oxfam Presented a Systemic Approach to Poverty, Development, Human Rights, and Trade
Aaronson, Susan Ariel & Jamie M Zimmerman
Human Rights Quarterly, Nov 2006, v28, #4, p998-, 35p
Oxfam, the world's most influential international development organization, is not represented at the World Trade Organization (WTO)1 and, thus, cannot directly influence trade deliberations. Yet, in the past five years, Oxfam has had a remarkable impact in changing the negotiating agenda and actual WTO policies, albeit one different from its original intent. In 2000, the twelve national Oxfam member organizations drafted a four-year strategic plan titled "Towards Global Equity" which focused on providing relief, but also on addressing the structural causes of poverty and injustice. Oxfam's new approach was based on a systemic analysis of global governance, in particular the relationship between poverty, human rights, development, and trade. This article discusses how Oxfam tried to change global trade policies to better reflect the rights-based approach delineated in its strategic plan. Susan Aaronson is Senior Fellow and Director of Globalization Studies at the Kenan Institute, Kenan Plagier Business School, University of North Carolina. Jamie M. Zimmerman is the Associate Director of the Globalization Studies Program at the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise, Washington Center. Fulltext
H3 - Aids Epidemic Update
World Health Organization, December 2006. Web posted November
21, 2006,online edition, 94p
Although promising developments have been made in recent years,
the number of people living with HIV continues to grow. A total
of 39.5 million people are living with HIV worldwide in 2006 including
4.3 million adults and children newly infected in 2006 (a concentration
of the newly infected are young adults aged 15-24 years old.)
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to bear the brunt of the global epidemic
with 63% of all adults and children with HIV and almost three
quarters of all adult and child deaths are due to AIDS. In the
past two years, the number of people living with HIV increased
in every region of the world with the most striking increases
in East Asia and Eastern Europe—over 21% higher than 2004. Access
to treatment and care has greatly improved over the past several
years resulting in an estimated increase of a cumulative total
of over two million life years gained since 2002. Fulltext
H4 - Nothing but Thanks
Reilly, Rick
Sports Illustrated, December 4 2006, v105, #22, p88, 1p
This article discusses malaria in Africa. The author notes that
"Sports Illustrated" magazine has started a campaign
called "Nothing But Nets," which provides mosquito nets
to children in Nigeria, where hundreds of children a year die
of mosquito-related malaria. Fulltext
H5 - Persistent Plague
Dyer, Ervin
The Crisis, Sep/Oct 2006, v 113, # 5, pp26-30
“Once present in the blood, the parasite multiplies and ruptures
red blood cells, which then release toxins that can cause kidney
failure and infect the brain, causing fever, convulsion and flu-like
symptoms. Every day, more than 270 people succumb to malaria in
Tanzania, most of them pregnant women or children younger than
5, people whose immune systems, already wracked by poor nutrition,
cannot muster the strength to stand against malaria's crippling
anemia or other wrenching complications. Dr. Andrew Kitua, director
of the National Institute for Medical Research in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania's commercial capital, says: ‘The fallout from malaria
deaths is like having a September 11 every month." Ervin Dyer is a Pittsburgh reporter who covers African and African American culture and health issues. Fulltext
H6 - Online Health Search 2006
Fox, Susannah
Pew Internet & American Life Project, October 29, 2006,
online edition, 22p
According to this new report, eighty percent of U.S. internet
users, or roughly 113 million adults, have searched for information
on at least one of the seventeen health topics listed in the study.
Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for
health information online. Very few check the source and date
of the information they find. Three percent of health seekers,
or about 3 million adults, say they or someone they know has been
seriously harmed by following the advice or information they found
online. Fully 31% of health seekers, or about 35 million adults,
say they or someone they know has been significantly helped by
following medical advice or health information found on the internet.
Fulltext
H7 - The New Global Slave Trade
Kapstein, Ethan B.
Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec2006, v85 #6, pp103-115
"Most people think of slavery as a purely historical phenomenon.
In fact, the practice thrives around the world today. The same
factors that contribute to economic globalization have given rise
to a booming international traffic in human beings, often with
the connivance of national governments. Fighting this scourge
successfully will take more than another UN treaty: Western nations
must use their military might." This article discusses the
existing international slave trade in the context of globalization.
Ethan B. Kapstein is Paul Dubrule Professor of Sustainable
Development at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and a Visiting
Fellow at the Center for Global Development, in Washington, D.C.
His most recent book is Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward
a Level Playing Field. Fulltext
H8 - The State of the World’s Children 2007
UNICEF, December 2006, online edition
On its 60th anniversary, UNICEF is launching a report
that says gender equality is critical to child survival and development…The
State of the World’s Children 2007’ examines the status of women
around the world and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender
discrimination and empower women and girls. It looks at the status
of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the
Millennium Development Goals forward, and shows how investment
in women’s rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing
the rights of both women and children. Fulltext
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