by Beth | Nov 17, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Trade ministers sitting down for discussions in Sydney this week could play a key role in improving access to vital medicines for millions of people across the world. Ministers from 25 leading nations will look at the critical issue of how to revise WTO patent rules...
by Beth | Nov 17, 2002 | Vincentian Family
The Daughters of Charity have been in Angola since 1995. Four of our Sisters from North America collaborated for 3 years with the Catholic Relief Services that have links with Caritas, working on a rehabilitation project for the Hospital of Balombo. Their main work...
by Beth | Nov 17, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
In the Philippines, protesters using cell-phone text messaging mobilized hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in January 2001 to help oust President Joseph Estrada. Reference: Time Magazine, June 4, 2001 * In China, tens of thousands of followers of the spiritual...
by Beth | Nov 16, 2002 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Volunteer managers already have phones and email to work with offsite volunteers. What is the advantage of using Instant Messaging (IM) with such volunteers as well? UNITeS (www.unites.org), the ICT volunteering initiative of United Nations Volunteers...
by Beth | Nov 16, 2002 | News
London, November 13 – Some 83 countries are on track to achieve Education For All (EFA) by the deadline of 2015 set at the World Education Forum in Dakar (Senegal) two and a half years ago. However, on present trends, more than 70 other countries will not make...
