Indian Citizens' Report on MDGs
The report provides an overview on the achievement of the MDGs in India, as well as focused reviews from the lens of socially disadvantaged groups such as Dalits, Denotified Tribes and Muslim Minorities; and across 10 states, namely Orissa, West Bengal, Himachal, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
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Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, which is a network of over 3000 development organizations across 23 states working to hold the government accountable to meet the MDGs and National Development Goals.
NEW YORK – The world has the technical ability but lacks the political will to eliminate global hunger, a scourge afflicting one in eight people that is as much a violation of human rights as torture, according to a report by the NGO, Action Against Hunger.
A main tenet of the study, the Justice of Eating – the Struggle for Food and Dignity in Recent Humanitarian Crises, is that the right to food is an inextricable part of the basic set of freedoms embodying human rights that are collectively the minimum conditions necessary for the realisation of human dignity.
New York – Extreme poverty has begun falling in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the 2007 United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mid-point progress report.
According to the report which was recently released by the United Nations Information Centre, extreme poverty in the region fell from 46.8 percent in 1990 to 41.1 percent in 2004, registering an effective decline of 5.7 percentage points.
