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GLOBAL: Setting the aid bar higher
15 July 2009
(IRIN
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Since the Sphere Project first published in 2000 its handbook outlining minimum standards in disaster response, much has changed in the aid world. Climate change is the new disaster, humanitarian reforms have reorganized the aid system introducing cluster leads for emergency sectors, and millions more disaster-affected people live in towns rather than rural areas.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85285/GLOBAL-Setting-the-aid-bar-higher
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GLOBAL: As the money flows, so the world turns
15 July 2009
(IRIN
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The stats are in – 2008 was a bumper year for HIV/AIDS funding, according to a new report by UNAIDS and the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on health. It is the kind of monitoring that may prove important as the global economic slowdown continues.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85295/GLOBAL-As-the-money-flows-so-the-world-turns
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AFRICA: Military munitions storage increasingly unstable
14 July 2009
(IRIN
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The growing number of accidental explosions in military arms and ammunition storage facilities across Africa has highlighted the need for minimum standards in stockpile management in the continent, says a South Africa-based think-tank.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85271/AFRICA-Military-munitions-storage-increasingly-unstable
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GLOBAL: Not all Kumbaya and campfires
14 July 2009
(IRIN
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"Despite popular opinion that non-profits are all sitting around the campfire singing Kumbaya together, they do have to manage their resources, and any way they can reduce their expenses by managing those well, I think is an opportunity for them," said NGO representative Barbara Wallace of InterAction, one of 800 attendees at a trade fair involving more than 110 corporations, NGOs, UN agencies and government aid bodies in Washington DC last week.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85256/GLOBAL-Not-all-Kumbaya-and-campfires
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GLOBAL: Urban poor and hungry burgeoning unnoticed
13 July 2009
(IRIN
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The number of poor and food-insecure people in developing countries is increasing more quickly in urban areas than in rural areas, and could be dropping off the policy radar, says new research by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85265/GLOBAL-Urban-poor-and-hungry-burgeoning-unnoticed
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GLOBAL: G8's historic shift needs applause
13 July 2009
(IRIN
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The announcement by President Barack Obama and the other G8 leaders of a US$20 billion three-year investment in developing-country agriculture marks a historic shift that merits widespread applause.
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/85259/72/GLOBAL-G8-s-historic-shift-needs-applause
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GLOBAL: Chance to develop climate change hub
13 July 2009
(IRIN
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If you live in a coastal region of Bangladesh and want to find out how to adapt to rising sea levels, or you are designing climate-resilient programmes for the South African government, help could be at hand.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85257/GLOBAL-Chance-to-develop-climate-change-hub
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GLOBAL: Trade in small arms growing
13 July 2009
(IRIN
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Trade in small arms and light weapons has been on the rise globally, fuelling violence in post-conflict regions, according to a new report.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85260/GLOBAL-Trade-in-small-arms-growing
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GLOBAL: Falling family planning funding threatens poverty fight
10 July 2009
(IRIN
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A dramatic plunge in international donor funding for family planning is threatening to undermine other humanitarian goals such as fighting poverty and hunger, as well as efforts to counter global warming, according to the UN and other specialists.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85223/GLOBAL-Falling-family-planning-funding-threatens-poverty-fight
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GLOBAL: WHO snapshot of world health
10 July 2009
(IRIN
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A newborn in Africa in 2007 would have lived on average 52 years. That baby would have lived an additional 25 years if born in the Americas. Below are highlights from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health Statistics 2009, which compiled the most recent data available from 193 countries. Unless otherwise noted, the below statistics are for 2007.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/85235/GLOBAL-WHO-snapshot-of-world-health
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