September 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

What a Flood Halfway Around the World Means for Us

In case you were wondering, Pakistan’s still underwater. Unfortunately for them, relief isn’t really on the way. Coming on the heels of the multi-billion dollar relief effort that took the world by storm after the earthquakes in Haiti, this has a whole...

Published Wed, Sep 15 2010 6:41 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Millennium Development Goal #7: Too Much to Do, Too Little Reward?

In many ways, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) #7 on environmental sustainability is the most complex to implement and the most difficult to motivate change in. Though the headline brings to mind thoughts of climate change and deforestation, MDG 7 actually...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 8:45 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Gossip, Discrimination and Poverty: Three Obstacles Toward an HIV-Free Caribbean

One word. Then everyone knows. Soon, families suffer. Neighbors discriminate against you, and finding employment becomes a daunting task. It might sound a bit preposterous, but in the Caribbean, small islands of near-feudalistic societies, these could...

Published Sat, Sep 18 2010 7:58 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Universal Primary Education by 2015: The Good and Bad News

The verdict is in. “Hope dims for universal education by 2015, even as many poor countries make tremendous strides,” announces the 2010 United Nations report ( PDF ) on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Indeed, one look at the primary education...

Published Mon, Sep 06 2010 12:33 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Miners Vs. Farmers: Zambia's Ongoing Battle

Should the livelihoods of a few be compromised in the name of progress? For Zambians this is more than a rhetorical question. This week the IRINNEWS reported that miners in the Luapula Province in northern Zambia were purportedly evicting farmers. According...

Published Thu, Sep 02 2010 7:10 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Women Take Center Stage at Opening of Clinton Global Initiative

Fairly early into the first day of the Clinton Global Initiative, New York Times columnist Nick Kristof issued a tweet that this year’s conference seemed “focused on investing in girls as a cost-effective strategy to fight poverty.” He was only part of...

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 7:29 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Broadband Internet: The Newest Human Right?

According to Dr. Hamadoun Toure, secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), broadband internet is the key to all sorts of development problems. In fact, he goes as far as to tell the BBC that access to information via the internet...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 4:14 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

PowerPointing Our Way Through the Third World

A friend of mine was recently turned down for a job because he wasn't familiar enough with PowerPoint. Not the software itself, he was told, but the "PowerPoint way of thinking." I didn't know there was such a thing, or how marketable...

Published Mon, Sep 13 2010 9:27 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Separatism, Sovereignty and Peace: A Different Path to Global Economic Recovery

The proverb "history repeats itself" usually refers to separate, thematically related events spanning decades or centuries. But in the recent cases of peace proposals by two violent separatist groups being rejected outright by the countries...

Published Sun, Sep 12 2010 6:32 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

A Quasi-Success Story: Maternal and Child Health Millennium Development Goals

Is it better to set achievable goals or ambitious ones? The frequent critique of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is that they provide an ambitious destination with very little by way of roadmap or funding. This is the equivalent of sending someone...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 6:00 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Making a PROMISE of Peace to Our Youth

In the spirit of the International Day of Peace, we here at Change.org wanted to take a moment to highlight a national initiative focused on the prevention of youth violence. The Peace Alliance, in coordination with a group of dedicated members of Congress...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 6:32 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

One Email Gets Teen Banned from U.S. for Life

You know those annoying chain emails and spam everyone gets all too often? This is nothing like them, and neither should our impulsive blackout reaction to them be. Don't even dare to think of freely expressing your negative thoughts about government...

Published Tue, Sep 14 2010 5:09 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Millennium Development Goal #8: A Global Partnership for Development

In anticipation of this month’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit , we at Change.org have been analyzing where we stand as a global development community in achieving the goals by 2015. For the last several days, Change.org writers have brought...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 1:48 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Did the Kimberley Process Fail in Zimbabwe?

If you've been following headlines in recent months, you already know that Zimbabwe has a problem with blood diamonds. As if the country didn't have enough trouble already, the Marange fields in Chiadzwa, an area in eastern Zimbabwe, were found...

Published Sat, Sep 04 2010 6:32 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Millennium Development Goal #1: The State of Poverty and Hunger Around the World

In the year 2000, 189 world leaders came together to make a historic promise: they would form a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty through a series of eight targets, all to be achieved by the deadline of 2015. These targets, which have become...

Published Mon, Sep 06 2010 6:02 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

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