Tag: UN
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Ivan Lewis MP response to the UN High Level Panel’s Report on the Post-2015 Agenda
Ivan Lewis MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, in response to the UN High Level Panel’s Report on the Post-2015 Agenda said: “I welcome many of the recommendations in the UN High Level panel’s report. Especially the objective to end extreme poverty by 2030 and the bringing together of the sustainability and poverty reduction
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An Obama blockbuster, a Remastered Brown, and a Clegg B-Movie
First published on Left Foot Forward, the UK’s top left wing blog, where LCID is a regular contributor. It is difficult to get excited about a United Nations summit on the Millennium Development Goals. Difficult when we know, before a single delegate set foot off the plane in New York, that the goals are massively
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Millennium Development Goals are in danger of being missed as the world prepares for UN Summit
By Margaret Dantas Araujo The review of the Millennium Development Goals is set for this September at the UN in New York. Heads of State will gather to discuss how to proceed over the next 5 years cognizant of the reality that a concentrated effort will be needed to reach some goals while others will
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Article slamming Conservatives’ policies by Director of the UN’s Human Development Report Office
Fantastic article in today’s Guardian slamming the Conservatives’ policies on development by Kevin Watkins, Director of the UN’s Human Development Report Office, and former Head of Policy at Oxfam. Cameron’s slum dogma The Conservative plan for overseas aid treats Africa as a laboratory for free-market ideology You don’t win general elections in Britain by fighting
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Walking to Copenhagen
Push, Oxfam’s Global Climate Change Campaigner, is walking from his home in Oxford to the Copenhagen for the crunch UN climate change talks happening in two weeks time. On Sunday I joined Push on one day of his walk, an 11mile stretch from Hertford to Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire. Push has always been an inspritation
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