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Girlup.org: Uniting Girls to Change the World
We've all heard touching stories of young American children who cnoduct penny drives or donate their allowances when they learn about the hardships faced by kids their age in developing countries. But now there's a new way for young children —...
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Wed, Jun 30 2010 1:46 PM
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Insect Eating is For Everyone, the UN Says
When locusts descended on Egypt in the Bible, maybe the powers that be weren't sending a plague — maybe they were just sending the beleaguered Pharaoh a really good meal. Or so some UN representatives would suggest. The United Nations has been touting...
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Tue, Jun 15 2010 7:47 AM
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Cancer: The Newest Developing World Scourge
Until recently, cancer was commonly seen as a disease of the developed world — just as AIDS has long been viewed as a developing world affliction. It was assumed that people in poor nations would rarely live long enough to get cancer. In 2005, that notion...
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Mon, Jun 07 2010 10:41 AM
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Africa's Unsung Progress in Scientific Innovation
Numerous fawning media profiles have made it clear that the World Cup — the world’s biggest sporting event — is also Africa’s coming out party. And maybe I’m cynical, but the tone I’ve picked up is definitely along the lines of: “Wow, there’s actually...
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Mon, Jun 28 2010 3:15 PM
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Previewing the September Millennium Development Goals Summit
Was this past weekend's G8 Summit a preview of September's major UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals? If so, there's reason for deep concern. The flagship program to emerge from the recent G8 Summit in Toronto was the " Muskoka...
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Wed, Jun 30 2010 6:50 AM
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In India, One Law Helps the Poor Fight Bureaucracy
India the democracy is an inspiration. India the bureaucracy, though, is another matter. Though India's 1.2 billion-people strong participatory system is awe-inducing, on a day-to-day level, the country's dense layers of bureaucracy can be stultifying...
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Tue, Jun 29 2010 1:46 PM
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Should Governments Forcibly Test People for HIV?
It's not nearly as outrageous as forcing HIV-positive women to become sterilized. But these days, there's another invasive practice that's attracting serious controversy: mandatory HIV testing. While the debate over mandatory testing isn't...
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Tue, Jun 22 2010 7:44 AM
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The U.S. Finally Recognizes Human Trafficking Within its Borders
Is the world making progress in the fight against human trafficking? Every year, the U.S. State Department tries to answer that question. And this year's report, released yesterday, found that though there are some 12.3 million people who've been...
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Tue, Jun 15 2010 1:01 PM
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Ending African Hunger: Companies Line Up to Make a Killing
They're the easy bad guys of the American Heartland. If you've seen Food, Inc. , you know that the genetically modified seeds that bring record harvests to farmers also bring ridiculous headaches in the form of intellectual property claims, which...
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Wed, Jun 02 2010 6:03 AM
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Did Industry Taint How the World Handled H1N1?
If you're looking for good fodder for a global conspiracy theory, the British Medical Journal' s got you covered. The latest copy of the journal paints an image of the World Health Organization as a global body snared in a web of corporate ties...
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Fri, Jun 04 2010 2:03 PM
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Crafting Change for Rwanda's Artisans
A few years ago, I accompanied a friend to the crafts market here in Kigali, Rwanda. He had been coming and going from Rwanda for years, but he always needed gifts. And they needed to look African. Trouble is, he told me, "Rwandan handicrafts suck...
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Tue, Jun 01 2010 6:19 AM
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What Kenya's New Budget Can't Do
Is Kenya's new budget a blueprint for hope, or just a smokescreen? This week, the country's finance minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, presented the new 2010/2011 budget plan to parliament. If adopted, it will be the largest budget in Kenyan history —...
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Sat, Jun 12 2010 7:47 AM
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Cash, Hookers — and Whales?
In future schoolbooks, when historians document the decline of the global whale population, they may have some fairly non-P.G. reasons to cite — such as government officials' appetite for call girls, and Japan's willingness to supply them. That's...
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Mon, Jun 14 2010 1:09 PM
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The World's 115 Million Impoverished Widows
If you're a widow living in the developing world, the UN probably hasn't thrown many high-level conferences on your behalf. Widows might be among the world's most vulnerable and impoverished groups, but for the most part, their challenges...
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Thu, Jun 24 2010 1:30 PM
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Grow Your Own Way
Shenggen Fan knows that for most countries, exiting poverty hasn't exactly meant relying on global donors — quite the opposite. He's in a good position to draw that conclusion, too. Over the past few years, his research has shown that in China...
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Fri, Jun 25 2010 8:58 AM
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