Investing in Kids Isn't Rocket Science :: The Millennium Development Goals challenged the world to cut extreme poverty in half, dramatically reduce child mortality, and make primary education universal, but Jody Heymann and Kristen McNeill say the world can do more.
In their report, “Changing Children’s Chances”, released by the World Policy Analysis Centre on Wednesday, Heymann and McNeill map the world’s commitment to essential development needs of children in terms of the official laws, policies, and programmes that exist at the national level.
Based on an extensive understanding of international agreements and norms, Heymann and McNeill identify eight critical areas of need – poverty reduction, quality education, protection from early labour, protection from early marriage, quality health care, po...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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LRA Chief Joseph Kony's Head Now Worth $5 Million, But The Hunt For Him Just Went On Hiatus :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Wednesday brought good news and bad news for Joseph Kony, notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. A major military operation to find and capture the wanted war criminal has been halted by turmoil in central Africa, even as officials in the United States placed a huge new bounty on Kony's head.</p>
<p>About 5,000 African troops -- the vast majority of whom are Ugandan -- have suspended efforts to find Kony in the Central African Republic, or CAR.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/lra-chief-joseph-konys-head-now-worth-5-million-hunt-him-just-went-hiatus-1169917
SSE fined record £10.5m by Ofgem :: Energy supplier SSE is fined £10.5m by Ofgem for "prolonged and extensive" mis-selling, the regulator's biggest ever fine for a supplier.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22011717#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
VIDEO Malaga 0-0 Borussia Dortmund: Highlights; Gotze And Dortmund Profligacy Keep Scores Level In Champions League Quarterfinal :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Malaga will surely be the happier side to have emerged from the first leg of their quarterfinal tie against Borussia Dortmund with the scores still level and crucially without having conceded an away goal.</p>
<p>There were plenty of chances at La Rosaleda with the favorites for the tie Dortmund and, in particular, Mario Gotze, spurning the best of them. </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/video-malaga-0-0-borussia-dortmund-highlights-gotze-dortmund-profligacy-keep-scores-level-champions
Jim Carrey Gets Serious On Huffington Post, Responding In Earnest To Fox News And His Gun-Loving Haters :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Embroiled in a running war of words with Fox News and gun zealots, the normally manic Jim Carrey took off his zany mask this week and posted a surprisingly earnest response to his conservative critics.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/jim-carrey-gets-serious-huffington-post-responding-earnest-fox-news-his-gun-loving-haters-1170069
Video look: Gaming on a Chromebook Pixel: Linux and Steam make it easy :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/OlFNi7qSF04/story01.htm
Cathy Zoi lands at Tom Siebel's C3, after Silver Lake's energy fund :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/WwuoC1XhyrQ/story01.htm
The number of cord cutters is steadily growing :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/5CLsKIqtkfw/story01.htm
Sponsored post: Unconstrained data center networks for the cloud era :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/3kHLEtrluHk/story01.htm
A Tableau IPO could validate the big data visualization push — or not :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/Q34kGFpGrQU/story01.htm
Ex-Goldman trader pleads guilty :: Former Goldman Sachs trader Matthew Marshall Taylor pleads guilty to defrauding the bank with an $8.3bn (£5.5bn) unauthorised futures trade in 2007.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22019424#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Finding the world's 'intellectual Viagra' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/9ULA5aUxSIg/index.html
Apple has to think different about China :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/zLydFWNyL3g/story01.htm
Twitter plays its platform hand, and it is the one holding all the Cards :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/A55E2i_EMv0/story01.htm
Zappos CEO rethinks urban transportation in Vegas with 100 Tesla Model S cars :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/NK_C7g4T8oc/story01.htm
Following the money in health tech: sensor technology and personalized medicine got a boost in March :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/gGQ1U9oWBRw/story01.htm
What is SignalFuse and why should we care? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/HWgTLIGxrW8/story01.htm
Facebook's mobile hype, eyeballs and dollars grow. Is that enough? :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/s6HhGABB11I/story01.htm
Triposo's iOS travel guides gain "opinion mining" data and faster OpenStreetMap rendering :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/PuYO40QGAnc/story01.htm
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