Joomla! site syndication http://www.gcap-senca.net Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:45:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.gcap-senca.net/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.gcap-senca.net Joomla! site syndication http://www.gcap-senca.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=209&Itemid=2 More than 173 Million People Gather at Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now! events, setting new world record for largest mobilization in history A Guinness World Record shattered this weekend when 173,045,325 citizens gathered at over 3,000 events in more than 120 countries, demanding that their governments eradicate extreme poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Stand Up, Take Action, End Poverty Now! , now in its fourth year, has been certified by Guinness World Records as the largest mobilization of human beings in recorded history, an increase of about 57 million people over last year. News - Global News Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:40:42 +0100 http://www.gcap-senca.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=208&Itemid=2 by Wahyu Susilo, INFID Jakarta - The 2015 deadline set by the United Nations Millennium Declaration to improve human development is fast approaching. Goals that 189 countries signed onto include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases, and ensuring environmental sustainability by developing a global partnership. The commitments make up the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There have been positive developments in the last nine years, but as the 2009 UN Millennium Report admits, the world is “moving too slowly to meet the goals”. The report specifically mentions regions that are slow in achieving MDGs: sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and South and Southeast Asia. News - Indo News Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:03:00 +0100 http://www.gcap-senca.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=207&Itemid=2 Rosa Elarde of GCAP's Feminist Task Force reports on some of the activities at Pittsburgh. News - Subregional News Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:12:51 +0100 http://www.gcap-senca.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=203&Itemid=2 What the Pittsburgh Summit Needs to Do At the same time Let’s Change the World for Good Enough is enough. It is time to change the world for good. It is time to invest in people. Because for people and their families to live in a clean climate, eat, be healthy, work and live free from economic insecurity isn’t too much to ask. The choice is to change things for good or to keep repeating the same mistakes again and again. We must not go back to business as usual. Over the past year, the U.S. and European governments have committed over 45 times the sums they spent on development assistance in 2007 to failing banks and other financial institutions. Simultaneously, the 5 months since the London G20 have seen world poverty continue to soar with almost 1 billion people going hungry every day. If urgent and concrete action is not taken, it is estimated that a further 100 million people, mostly those living in countries in the global south will have fallen into extreme poverty by the end of 2009. News - Global News Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:36:04 +0100 http://www.gcap-senca.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=202&Itemid=2 Youth Day celebration at Negombo, Sri Lanka. News - Subregional News Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:46:31 +0100