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VA Launches Partnership for NGO Outreach
Houston Chronicle - 3 Hours ago
Peake: VA Tapping the Power of Communities WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a new partnership to help non-government organizations (NGOs)
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Student inventor helps third world from granddad's potting shed
Telegraph - 3 Hours ago
Emily Cummins is already the mother of several award-winning inventions at the age of 21 while on an unrelated degree course. Her latest project is the electricity-free refrigerator, which works through
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The amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student to help the Third World
Mail Online UK - 4 Hours ago
It's the kind of brilliant yet simple invention that would have the tycoons of the Dragon's Den salivating with excitement. An eco-friendly fridge, powered by the sun rather than electricity, that can
Amazing solar-powered fridge invented by British student helps poverty-stricken Mail Online UK
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Illicit Financial Flows Out of the Developing World Overwhelm Foreign Aid
Houston Chronicle - 8 Hours ago
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Global Financial Integrity (GFI) released today a study estimating the annual value of illicit financial flows from all poor nations at approximately $900
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Aid Workers Report Live From Gaza
OneWorld.net - 9 Hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 5 (New America Media) - With few journalists able to report from the ground on Gaza, aid workers stationed there have become vital sources of not just food and medicines, but also information
Aid workers movements in Gaza severely restricted IRIN
ISRAEL-OPT: Aid workers movements in Gaza severely restricted IRIN
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Volunteer to Help Farmers in Developing Countries
American Farm Bureau - 41 Minutes ago
Volunteers spend three weeks overseas, experiencing another culture and, more importantly, providing important technical assistance to farmers and others to help promote sustainable improvements in food
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Death leads to 'Third world' claim
WA Today.com.au - 4 Hours ago
THE Victorian Opposition has called for rural maternity wards to be reopened and for more paramedics in the bush after a woman died in 'Third World' conditions from complications during pregnancy. The
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CARE Aid Worker Killed By Israeli Air Raid In Gaza - Group
Nasdaq - 8 Hours ago
GENEVA (AFP)--A worker for international aid agency CARE has died in an Israeli air attack in Gaza, the agency said Wednesday. Mohammed Ibrahim Samouni, who worked for CARE's food distribution project,
CARE Aid Worker Killed By Israeli Air Raid In Gaza - Group (DJ) Easy Bourse
Gunmen Kill UN Food Aid Worker Scoop
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Developing nations may be worst victims of economic crisis: Pranab
NetIndia123.com - 9 Hours ago
The global economic turmoil poses a grave threat to developing nations even though their contribution to the cause of the crisis is negligible, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Tuesday.
National Post economic pundits: The worst may be over National Post
Economic pundits say the worst may be over National Post
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Mobile banking in the developing world
Enterprise Innovation - 11 Hours ago
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Global trends driving 'land grab' in poor nations
Business Recorder - 12 Hours ago
: Resource-hungry nations are snapping up huge tracts of agricultural land in poor Asian nations, in what activists say is a 'land grab' that will worsen poverty and malnutrition. Global trends including
Global trends driving 'land grab' in poor nations: activists Brunei Times
Global trends drive 'land grab' -- activists Yehey
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Softmax Co., Ltd., PMC Production Sign MOU to Cooperate on Cultural Contents Production,
Develop - 12 Hours ago
Softmax Co., Ltd., PMC Production Sign MOU to Cooperate on Cultural Contents Production, Lead 'Globalization of Hallyu Contents' - Cooperation (game/performance) between the representative producers of
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Developing Countries' Urban Population to Hit 5.3 Billion By 2050 - UN
AllAfrica.com - 13 Hours ago
Urban population of the developing world will hit 5.3 billion by 2050, report by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) has said. It said, 'Africa, with an urban population of 1.2
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Security & Protection in NGO Sector
ReliefWeb - 14 Hours ago
Training Description This course will address the related problems of staff safety and security and the protection of the populations affected in complex emergencies. As these two issues are often treated
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Somalia food aid sent by road
Finance 24 - 16 Hours ago
Nairobi - The first World Food Programme truck convoy to Somalia in five years has arrived after piracy on the Indian Ocean forced the UN agency to resume road shipments, an official said on Monday. 'This
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Global meltdown: Pranab calls for more aid to developing world
NewKerala.com - 18 Hours ago
: Sounding a caution that in view of the global financial meltdown, developing countries would find it difficult to achieve the Millenium Development Goals by 2015, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee
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US food aid due in NKorea this week (AFP)
Yahoo! News Australia - 21 Hours ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A shipment of US food aid is due to arrive in North Korea later this week after rough seas caused a delay, the State Department said Tuesday. 'The next shipment of food aid totaling
US food aid due in North Korea this week Channel NewsAsia
US food aid due in N.Korea Straits Times
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Sargent announces 2 million Christmas donation to provide food aid for Ethiopia
Green Party Ireland - 22 Hours ago
The Green Party's Minister for Food Trevor Sargent TD today announced a 2 million donation to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to provide food aid in Ethiopia. A shortage of funds for vital operations
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NGO urges judicial reform to guarantee legal human rights
MyEGov Taiwan - 2 Hours ago
(CNA) Taipei, Jan. 7 (CNA) The nongovernmental organization Judicial Reform Foundation urged the Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Yuan Wednesday to propose concrete steps and a timetable for judicial
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NGO to provide for needy students
Fiji Times - 16 Hours ago
Update: 4:07PM NEEDY children from Vatukoula will continue to receive education assistance from the Save the Children Fiji but on strict conditions as their funding was limited. Fund chief executive officer
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NGO seeks probe in petrol scam
Calcutta Telegraph - 24 Hours ago
Jan. 6: A city-based consumer rights' protection forum today said it would move court if Dispur failed to conduct an inquiry into the allegations of malpractices in a few refuelling stations within a
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PM: 30% of Cambodians live under poverty line
Xinhua News Agency - 1/6/2009
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Some 30 percent of Cambodians now live under the poverty line, said Prime Minister Hun Sen here on Tuesday while addressing a bridge inauguration ceremony. 'We are making
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NGO leader denounces Gabon 'repression' to EU parliament
Tocqueville Connection - 1/6/2009
(AFP) - A human rights activist on Monday denounced Gabon's campaign of 'repression' against civil society in a letter to the European Parliament, following arrests of rights campaigners and journalists.
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Middle-class victims of slump seek food aid in HK
China Post - 1/6/2009
HONG KONG -- Middle-class victims of the economic slump are seeking help from a food bank for the poor in Hong Kong, a charity said Monday. The charity said there had been about 10 instances in the wealthy
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Ethiopian Parliament Approves Law Criminalizing Many NGO Activities
VOA News - 23 Hours ago
Ethiopia's parliament has overwhelmingly approved a law that will sharply restrict the activities of most civil society groups. The law has been the target of scathing criticism from opposition parties,
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