Posted on March 8th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
In the historic 2005 general elections women streamed to the ballots, many despite threats, sending 91 women to parliament. Yet, many Afghans remain unaware of women’s rights to political participation, to earn an income, and to legally defend themselves against discrimination and domestic violence.
What’s it mean to be a woman in Afghanistan? Chances are you [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Maria is a ChangeMaker student (Stage 2) who lives in Kenya. She is engaged with several environmental projects. To work with “own projects” is the main activity for all Stage 2 students. One of the projects that she is working with is “Save Lake Naivasha”. She had been in the area around the lake and [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2010 by ChangeMaker
MHealth Alliance and Orange Healthcare team up to develop mobile health solutions for West Africa
At the GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Orange Healthcare announced last week that they will be joining the mHealth Alliance, a partnership which leverages rapid advances in mobile technology to improve public health, health care systems and patient care in [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by ChangeMaker
At the recent London Conference on Afghanistan, Afghan women expressed concerns that peace talks with the Taliban means sacrificing hard-earned rights.
At an international conference in London last week, seventy countries pledged to back Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s plan to negotiate and reconcile with some Taliban.
Despite reassurances from Karzai and western allies that reconciliation [...]
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Posted on February 1st, 2010 by ChangeMaker
Bill and Melinda Gates have pledged $10 billion in a bid to save millions of lives during the next decade with vaccines. The funds will support efforts to provide vaccinations for diseases such as measles, diphtheria and polio, and develop new vaccines.
Vaccines already get more financing from the Gates Foundation than any other cause, [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
A report assembled by the Rights and Resources Initiative and conservation partners argues the failure to reach a concrete initiative at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen demonstrates the West does not have an adequate plan to implement or enforce Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, its program for curbing deforestation.
Though REDD has [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2010 by ChangeMaker
The Hope for Haiti Now global telethon is also an extraordinary digital album including performances by lots of famous artists, along with a bonus track from Jay-Z, Bono, the Edge and Rihanna. You can also own the two-hour telethon video.
All proceeds from album and video sales will go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, Oxfam [...]
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