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FOOD: No More Hunger by 2025?
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BY JAYA RAMACHANDRAN
If FAO director-general Jacques Diouf has his way with the heads of state and government from around the world, they will sign on to a global agreement to "completely eradicate hunger from the face of the Earth by 2025".
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MIDDLE EAST: Arabs? Forget About Them - They Are Just Citizens!
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BY FAREED MAHDY
Authoritarian states, flawed constitutions, unjust laws that deny citizens their rights, alienation, oppression of women, poverty, unemployment, sectarian violence and ethnic conflicts, are just some of a long list of violations of fundamental rights Arab citizens suffer every single day.
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AGRICULTURE: EU 'Donation' To Make Up For Farm Subsidies Damage
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BY JAYA RAMACHANDRAN
The European Union, which spends worth more than 50 billion Euros a year on agricultural subsidies to farmers across member nations, harming the farmers in developing lands, has announced 75 million euro "donation" to help poor countries boost agricultural production.
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PEER REVIEW: OECD Asks Sweden to Update Humanitarian Policy
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A peer reveiew by OECD's Development Assistance Committee has asked Sweden to consolidate its leading role as a good
humanitarian donor . . .
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MIDDLE EAST: A Story of Camels and Baby-Slaves
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BY BABUKAR KASHKA
Apparently, human beings have managed to assimilate the crabs’ ability to walk forth and back with equal ease. This is evident in many human activities, particularly in the field of human rights, where bigger steps backward often reverse smaller steps forward. The case of the camel child-jockeys in the Middle
East is just one more clamorous example.
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AFRICA: 'Don't Let Children Die'
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BY JEROME MWANDA
The UN Millennium Campaign is calling on African states, civil society
organisations and the private sector to tackle child and maternal mortality,
school dropout, gender inequality in the universal primary education and poor
quality standards of that programme.
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After 2015: Rethinking Pro-Poor Policy After the MDGs
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IDS IN FOCUS POLICY
BRIEFING
As we enter an era
characterised by global uncertainties such as climate change and the global
economic crisis, what has been the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
model and how can we accelerate progress on poverty reduction through such
turbulent times?
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G20: WHERE IS THE MONEY, AND WHO IS THE MONEYLENDER
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By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - It seemed like a lot of money at the time. The leaders of the group of eight richest countries, the G8, met in Gleneagles in Scotland and announced 50 billion dollars in new aid, half of that for Africa and half for the rest of the world.
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G20: GIVE OR TAKE A TRILLION OR TWO
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By Sanjay Suri
LONDON - The ease with which leaders spoke of trillions of dollars at the G20
summit in London April 2 were no doubt intended to signal to the world just how
serious leaders are about getting the economy right again. That these fabulous
figures may never add up is another matter.
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G20: LAUDABLE - YET GENUINE TRANSPARENCY REQUIRED
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By Jaya Ramachandran
BERLIN (IDN) - The decision of the Group of 20 (G20) leading industrial and
emerging economies to prioritise transparency as a means to curb systemic risks
in the global financial and economic system and to provide a stimulus that also
extends to the developing world is welcome, says Transparency International
(TI).
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G20: ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
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Analysis by Sanjay Suri
LONDON - There is on the face of it a fairness in the language hanging over the
G20 summit that is quite seductive. "A global crisis requires a global solution,"
everyone who matters seems to be saying, at least towards the richer end of the
G20 spectrum. Such talk is getting louder by the day as heads of state and
government head for a meeting in London Thursday to address the global economic
crisis.
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G20: 'USE CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY TO FIX INEQUITY'
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By Michael Chebud
ADDIS ABABA - The daunting task of making Africa the centre of attention awaits
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi when the Group of 20 (G20) rich and
emerging economies meet in London April 1. Invited by the host country, Zenawi, who chairs the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development (NEPAD), is the only African leader apart from South Africa’s
President Kgalema Motlanthe to attend the G20 summit.
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G20: NEXT TIME, PERHAPS ...
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Analysis by Sanjay Suri
LONDON - If the draft declaration of the G20 meeting in London is anything to go
by, the most specific outcome of this summit is that there will be another one
later in the year. Several governments have begun to lobby already to host the
next G20, in apparent confidence that this one is not going to take care of the
problems that the leaders are gathering to address, if not resolve.
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G20: JAPAN CARRIES AFRICAN CONCERNS TO LONDON
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By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN (IDN) - Japan, the world's second largest economy, is calling for global
initiatives to reactivate financial flows to Africa, including government grants,
concessional loans and lines of credit.
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G20: POOR COUNTRIES IN DIRE NEED OF FUNDS
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By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN (IDN) - There is no longer a question that developing countries are being hit severely by the global crisis. Instead, there is the very distinct possibility that they end up as the worst-hit victims, while already being the most vulnerable, said Eckhard Deutscher, Chair of OECDs Development Assistance Committee (DAC) March 30.
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By Ramesh Jaura
BONN - Renewables have indeed gone global. The newlyfounded world-organisation International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) already represents over two and a half billion people, over a third of the global population. After India joined IRENA as its 76th member, the number of people living in its member states and thus directly impacted by the agency rose to more than 2.5 billion.
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A Japanese Suburb Goes Middle East
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By Katsuhiro Asagiri
TOKYO - Koganei is a small town on the outskirts of Tokyo. It has a population of 113,389. Only some 2,418 of them are foreign
nationals. One would not expect this suburb to bother about the rest of the
world; certainly not
the conflict-ridden Middle East.
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Add Another Five – In a Way
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Analysis by Ramesh Jaura
TOKYO - The G8 summit meetings in Toyako on the Japanese island of Hokkaido were critical not only for North-South but also South-South relations and their impact on a globalised world.
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Old Targets Set in New Language
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By Ramesh Jaura
TOKYO - After months of ministerial meetings that culminated in the summit of the world's seven major industrial democracies and Russia (G8) last week, the focus shifts back to United Nations negotiations on a new post-2012 climate treaty regime.
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'Planet Burns While G8 Fiddles'
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By Ramesh Jaura
TOYAKO - While the world's major industrialised nations expressed satisfaction over their three-day summit meetings that concluded Wednesday, non-governmental organisations, after some early and limited approval, were deeply disappointed with the outcome on the whole.
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G8 Leaders Produce More Than NGOs Expected
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By Ramesh Jaura
TOYAKO - Three key documents – on African development, food security, and corruption -- emerging Tuesday from the summit of major industrial nations' leaders seem to have taken non-governmental organisations (NGOs) by surprise in delivering more than expected, even if they did not please all.
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Majority Favours An Exclusive G8 Club
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By Ramesh Jaura
TOYAKO (IPS) - The Group of Eight (G8) will remain an exclusive club of major industrial nations at least for a year. Whether the next year's summit in Italy will decide on its expansion -- to include Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa -- is an open question.
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Japanese Commitment to Africa Challenged
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By Ramesh Jaura
TOYAKO - Japan received kudos Monday from the leaders of seven African states as they met with their counterparts from the group of eight (G8) major industrialised nations in Toyako on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. But others raised doubts over the extent of commitment to Africa by Japan and the other G8 countries.
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Global Food Security Plan Expected
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By Ramesh Jaura
TOYAKO - A landmark agreement on ensuring global food security is likely to emerge from the G8 summit in Toyako.
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A Mountain Of Wishes Waits
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By Ramesh Jaura
TOYAKO - When the leaders of seven western industrial democracies and Russia gather for their meetings Jul. 7-9 in Toyako on the northern island of Hokkaido, a mountain of wishes tabled by a multitude of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from around the world would have piled up before them.
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