AFRICA: World crises “must not detract from poverty eradicationâ€
ADDIS ABABA, 21 November 2008 (IRIN) - Initiatives aimed at eradicating poverty in Africa must continue, despite global financial, food, energy and environmental crises, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, Asha-Rose Migiro, said on 20 November.
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GLOBAL: Juggling emergency aid and long-term development
NEW YORK, 19 November 2008 (IRIN) - As the global recession bites, analysts are asking if emergencies such as natural disasters will continue to receive funding (on 19 November, a record appeal for US$7 billion was launched for crises) while development aid, which could save many more lives long-term, such as agricultural investment in Africa, is left to languish.
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GLOBAL: Tight belts, tough choices for charities
NEW YORK, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Humanitarian organisations face tough choices if the global financial crisis affects their income, as some analysts predict. Although it is too soon to predict the full impact of the crisis on funding, some agencies told IRIN they were reviewing possible cutbacks and some have started tightening their belts.
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GLOBAL: Emergency education gains ground
DAKAR, 13 November 2008 (IRIN) - Humanitarian policy-makers have endorsed internationally-agreed standards on rebuilding education sectors shattered by crises, in a move experts say shows that education is increasingly being regarded as life-saving.
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GLOBAL: G20 "must stand by aid pledges"
NEW YORK, 11 November 2008 (IRIN) - Leaders of the top 20 industrial and big emerging-market countries will be asked to reaffirm their commitments to development assistance at the emergency summit on 15 November convened by President George W Bush to address the global financial crisis.
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GLOBAL: New “business model†for humanitarian aid – top UN official
DUBAI, 10 November 2008 (IRIN) - John Holmes, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, has been in Dubai attending the inaugural Summit on the Global Agenda held by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) in partnership with the government of Dubai (7-9 November).
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AFRICA: Investment key to doubling rice production
NAIROBI, 3 November 2008 (IRIN) - Greater investment to double rice production in Africa is needed to reduce food insecurity as well as improve livelihoods, specialists urged.
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GLOBAL: UN chief calls for protection of migrants amid financial crisis
MANILA, 29 October 2008 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on countries battered by the financial crisis to keep their doors open to foreign workers, stressing that migration could be used to help lift them out of economic gloom.
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GLOBAL: No room for complacency about bird flu - experts
SHARM EL SHEIKH, 27 October 2008 (IRIN) - Some success has been achieved in reducing avian influenza outbreaks in poultry and humans, but the world must still be prepared to tackle an influenza pandemic, experts at an international conference in Egypt have said.
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GLOBAL: Climate change may drown cities
JOHANNESBURG, 24 October 2008 (IRIN) - People in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, prefer to commute in three-wheeled autorickshaws, taxis and buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG), in their bid to slow down global warming.
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