Girl’s Work, or Dignity
Len and Georgia Morris are traveling to the child labor conference in the The Hague this week, so I’m doing the honors for the next two weeks while they’re gone.
Monique DeJong has written a wonderful post this week, Proposed ILO Convention Could Protect Migrant Domestic Workers’ Rights. Domestic work is perceived as a relatively [...]
Drug-Resistant TB
Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is a growing global threat. Between 2004 and 2008, more than 24,000 cases of MDR-TB were diagnosed in South Africa but the total numbers are estimated to be even higher. In response, the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières and the City of Cape Town Health Department designed a community-based pilot project for the treatment and support of people with drug-resistant TB in Khayelitsha, an informal settlement of about 1.5 million people.
Produced by IRIN Films.
Kala Azar
Kala Azar is a deadly, yet treatable parasitic disease which affects half a million people a year across the world. It is endemic in many parts of India and east Africa, including the Pokot region of northwest Kenya, where international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has had great success with a treatment programme. But lack of access to information and adequate medical care in much of Kenya allows Kala Azar to kill thousands of people every year.
Produced by IRIN Global.
Children and the 2011 Federal Budget
A detailed look at how President Obama’s FY 2011 Federal Budget invests in children and families.
The State of America’s Children 2008
A comprehensive Children’s Defense Fund report on children in America with regard to population, poverty, nutrition, housing, education, early development etc.
Prioritizing the Discussion on Child Rights
On March 25th in Iowa, five days after the U.S. Congress passed a historical bill on healthcare reform, President Barack Obama gave a speech to a crowd of both supportive and concerned citizens about what this legislation truly means to Americans across the nation. Building off of his campaign slogan, he emphasized that [...]
Millennium Development Goals Report 2009
This annual report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on data provided by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system. The aggregate figures in the report provide an overview of regional progress under the eight goals and are a convenient way to track advances over time. The report is coordinated and published by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
