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  • 12 Aug 2008 18:06 GMT

    News Bulletin 12/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/12/08/08 ■  Thousands of Sudanese villagers are refusing to leave their homes which are to be flooded by a dam in the Manaseer area, 350 km north of Sudan's capital, Khartoum. Tens of thousands of villagers have already been displaced by the Merowe Dam on the River Nile, but they complain the new houses built by the government are too far from the river and lack the water needed to sustain their agriculture. Local people have also complained the ...
  • 11 Aug 2008 17:51 GMT

    News Bulletin 11/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/11/08/08 ■ Sudan is investing billions of dollars into agribusiness and exporting hundreds of tons of foodstuffs in sales to other countries, while aid groups and foreign governments ferry in food supplies to the people of Darfur. Sudanese officials deny claims they are ignoring the hunger of the country's citizens and argue their efforts to build up the economy will help Sudan become self-sufficient.  ■ Zimbabwe's political leaders appear on ...
  • 08 Aug 2008 19:14 GMT

    WFWO's Special Report - Intl. Day of the World's Indigenous People 2008

    Special Report on the Occasion of the International  Day of the World's Indigenius People 2008 ROME, August 8, 2008, World For World Organization (WFWO) call international communities, to react to straighten the right of the World’s Indigenous People Day 2008. The event will be a commemoration on 9 August, an observance at UN Headquarters, will focus on efforts by indigenous peoples right and for  sustainable development. This year's ...
  • 08 Aug 2008 19:12 GMT

    News Bulletin 8/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/08/08/08 ■ Global Fund chief Michel Kazatchkine and UNAIDS leader Peter Piot voiced skepticism that all nations would have access to anti-HIV drugs by 2010, a UN goal. They said that emerging nations such as China could shoulder more of the bill for their own burden. Although some observers said that the weakening verbal commitment might mark a slip from 2010 to 2015 - the final target date for the UN Millennium Development Goal on curbing HIV's spread - ...
  • 07 Aug 2008 18:20 GMT

    News Bulletin 7/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/07/08/08 ■ An alliance of health workers and leaders joined the UN in calling for more targeted prevention efforts in the battle to stop AIDS. One medical official said prevention funding should be redistributed toward areas that currently receive little funding, such as male circumcision drives and programs to reduce concurrent sexual partners.■ United Nations climate change officials are prepared to make it harder for speculators to cash in on a carbon offset mechanism that was ...
  • 06 Aug 2008 19:48 GMT

    News Bulletin 6/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/06/08/08 ■ Two factors have conspired to bring about a food crisis in Ethiopia that reminds some observers of the devastating 1984 famine: a drought in Ethiopia's traditional breadbasket, and soaring global food prices. Rains and humanitarian aid have provided hope, but some 10 million people require emergency aid until the harvest in September.■ Legal advisers to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have told him to "distance himself politically" from Sudanese President Omar Hassan al ...
  • 05 Aug 2008 18:23 GMT

    News Bulletin 5/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/05/08/08 ■ The world will fail to reach millennium development goals unless India improves its record on health and child protection, a UN report says. Unicef, the UN children's agency, says India is failing to provide basic healthcare for its poorest children - despite robust economic growth. India and China account for nearly a third of the world's child deaths, the vast majority of them in India. The country had 2.1m child deaths in 2006 - more than any other state. The correspo ...
  • 04 Aug 2008 19:19 GMT

    News Bulletin 4/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/4/08/08 ■ A paper by medical experts recommends giving patients earlier treatment with HIV drugs. The report was published at the start of a six-day international AIDS conference in Mexico. At present, doctors are advised to prescribe antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) only once HIV has weakened a patient's immune system significantly in a attempt to minimise the drugs' toxic side effects. But the paper, by the International Aids Society, said these guidelines should be overhauled, as bett ...
  • 04 Aug 2008 16:04 GMT

    AIDS Special Report

    Special Report on the opening of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City   Ref: SR/WFW/08/08 4 August 2008 – Addressing the world’s largest forum on HIV/AIDS, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged bolstered efforts to tackle the pandemic, stressing how the virus impedes development.“Most countries still have a long way to go to meet the goal” set two years ago at the General Assembly to move towards universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support ...
  • 01 Aug 2008 14:25 GMT

    News Bulletin 1/August/2008

    Ref: WFW/NB/01/08/08 ■ In an effort to reduce soaring energy costs and global warming, Spain is putting new restrictions on speed and energy in place. Cars will not be permitted to drive more than 50 miles per hour on highways (25 mph in cities), and the government is distributing low-energy light bulbs to cut high-energy bulbs out of the market. ■ In a landmark case, aborigines won traditional ownership of a large stretch of northern Australian coastal land. They will have the power to exclud ...