Billions Needed to Meet UN Development Goals
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Wealthy countries must donate billions more dollars to ensure women&#39;s reproductive rights and cut population growth, a UN report said on Wednesday.
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Some of the world's biggest companies join campaigners and governments to achieve the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
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Gordon Brown is a man in a hurry. There is, he says, not a moment to be lost if the global community is to have a chance of hitting its millennium development goals by 2015.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world population growth and ensure women&#39;s rights could be missed without greater resources and political will, a UN report says.
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More must be done more quickly to make the world fit for children by 2015, the UN children's fund Unicef says.
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The world is likely to fail to meet the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals related to health, the head of the World Health Organization said on Monday at a global forum on health research for poor nations.
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LONDON, Jan 6 (IPS) - Scientists must move to the centre of government   decision-making on development issues, says a report presented  to the  United Nations Thursday.
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The United Nations spent $18 billion on peacekeeping missions around the globe in the past five years &#151; mainly in Africa &#151; but not enough on preventing conflicts from erupting in the first place.
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31 August 2004 - Developing countries have made tremendous strides in improving reproductive health and tackling women&#39;s rights issues, but rich nations have only paid a little more than half of the $6.
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World leaders are hoping to put a spotlight on the growing gap between rich and poor and the failure to find &#36;50 billion a year to help more than one billion people escape extreme poverty and start sharing global prosperity.
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Heavy rains and floods are  holding up efforts to help victims of the Asian tsunami, but  the United Nations said on Tuesday that "extraordinary  progress" was being made and the total amount of aid pledged  had risen to between $2 billion and $3 billion.
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New York - About $500m has been pledged for victims of the earthquake-tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, including a $250m commitment from the World Bank, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (IPS) - The EU could set the pace towards achieving the  millennium development goals, leading development experts say.
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An international team sponsored by the U.N. proposed a detailed, ambitious plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
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Wealthy countries are falling billions of dollars short of their promises to help fund reproductive health care and improvements in the status of women around the world, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Some countries have taken major strides to improve the rights and reproductive health of women but more must be done to meet goals set at a UN conference a decade ago, according to a report released Tuesday.