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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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.
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Ticket machine card fraud rise in EU :: Several European countries have reported a rise in card crime at ticket machines and petrol pumps, says a study.
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SPL pursue Rangers legal costs :: The Scottish Premier League pursue costs for their investigation into undisclosed payments to Rangers players.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22012125
Q&A: Kaesong Industrial Complex :: The BBC looks at the Kaesong Industrial Complex, the joint inter-Korean economic project north of the demilitarized zone.
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Qatar flexing its regional clout :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ZqSdmcYcOGA/
Latecomer wins FIFA goal-line deal :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/P-B9Xe45y-Y/index.html
With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:• Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).• E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...
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From Apple CEO Tim Cook to Ted Nugent, entrepreneurs rock at State of the Union VIDEO :: Who are you going to call when you want to show you're committed to building an economy where innovative companies thrive?
The CEO of Apple, of course. That's what President Bill Clinton did when he invited John Sculley to sit in first lady Hillary Clinton's box at his first State of the Union address in 1993. And it's what President Barack Obama did when he invited current Apple CEO Tim Cook to sit in first lady Michelle Obama's box at tonight's speech.
For Cook's sake, let's hope this honor works… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
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Quiz: Destination Dubai :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/cett7x86gGI/index.html
Local Couple Creates Fertility App To Help Couples Get Pregnant :: var WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947 = new WNVideoWidget("WNVideoCanvas", "WNVideoCanvas_vid8297947", "1");
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The Open and Rocky Road Post-2015 :: What values does a Yemeni journalist who fuelled the Arab Spring hold in common with a former principal of the U.S. National Security Council? And how in turn will they see eye to eye with a Jordanian queen, or the president of Indonesia?
The subjects of this riddle are meeting in Monrovia as part of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's 27-member High Level Panel of Eminent Person's on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP).
The purpose of the HLP is to lead the discussion around a new framework, the post-2015 development agenda, to replace the expiring Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The HLP's work will culminate with an advisory report to Ban in May 2013.
The meeting, which takes place between Jan. 30 and Feb. 1, is the third in a series of four. Previous meetings took place in Lon...
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Nepal's battle with drug traffickers :: Nepal fights to avoid being called a haven for drug trafficking
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European markets at close: 04.04.2013 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/n8ARkFv8rss/
Will Mozambique end up like Nigeria or Norway? :: Will Mozambique emulate Nigeria or Norway when its gas flows?
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Q&A: Japan's latest stimulus package :: Will Japan's latest stimulus measures work?
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22023456#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
No fresh stimulus measures from BoE :: The Bank of England decides not to expand its stimulus programme of quantitative easing and keeps interest rates unchanged at 0.5%.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22025966#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
EU suspects state aid in football :: The EU is studying allegations that some top football clubs, including Real Madrid, received state aid in violation of EU competition rules.
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Pension reform 'needs explanation' :: The government should do more to explain the new state pension system to the public, a cross-party group of MPs says.
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Qatar's spending spree :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/KlCVG9hz45o/
How science confounded the year's gloom :: Higgs boson and landing Curiosity on Mars are just two of the great achievements of the past 12 monthsIn a year that saw Britain suffer double-dip recession; when crippling debt has risen to threaten a record number of households; when the nation faces losing its triple A credit rating; and the economy of the entire planet continues to flounder, it is hard to find many reasons to be cheerful. The human species, which has made so much of its sparkling intellect in recent decades, could fairly be accused of having made a recent hash of global affairs. It is a justifiable criticism, though it ignores some intriguing contradictory evidence. We forget that some affairs went well in 2012. Indeed, when it came to scientific achievements, the year turns out to have been a sparkling one. Interplane...
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Has this blog changed your life? | Jon Butterworth | Life & Physics :: If so, please tell me, so I can inform the REF. Also: JUICE and CDF bumps.I spent most of today writing about the environment. Not in the recycled wind-farm rainforest sense, but in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) sense. The environment in question is UCL Physics. Not just the Department of Physics & Astronomy, but the Department of Space and Climate Physics (at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory) and the London Centre for Nanotechnology (UCL wing). Does this environment encourage research excellence? They have questions. All around the country, academics are dropping whatever else they were doing to answer them.While it's not the way I would have chosen to spend part of my Saturday, I can't grumble too much as (a) I did agree to be head of department and knew this was part of th...<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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'Without Our Land We Are Not A People': Chile's Indigenous Mapuche Natives Fight A Forgotten, 500-Year War For Self-Determination :: <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>TEMUCO, Chile -- Temuco is a city of people who move slowly and drive fast, where houses are low houses and wild roses bloom to buxom beauty on sidewalks and front yards. In this country at the end of the world, wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean, it's also the unlikely stage of the 500-year war the Mapuche natives have been waging, first against the Spanish colonial armies and now the Chilean state.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/without-our-land-we-are-not-people-chiles-indigenous-mapuche-natives-fight-forgotten-500-year-war
Are Cruise Ships Safe? Carnival Cruises' Triumphant Fall From Grace Raises The Question Of Whether Cruise Vacations Are Too Risky :: <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> </p>
<p>If you've watched the news lately, you know that Miami-based Carnival Corp. is in deep do-do, in part, because that's exactly what several of its customers had to wade through on a recent voyage.</p>
<p>Carnival Triumph captivated a global audience in February as it drifted through the Gulf of Mexico for five days carrying more than 4,000 passengers, many of whom complained of everything from food shortages to scorching tent villages and human excrement running down the ship's corridors.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/are-cruise-ships-safe-carnival-cruises-triumphant-fall-grace-raises-question-whether-cruise-1170573
Burning For Freedom: Crisis In Nepal As Tibetan Monks Self-Immolate And China Cracks Down :: <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>KATHMANDU, Nepal -- On the morning of Feb. 13, Drupchen Tsering, a Buddhist monk from Tibet, walked out of a restaurant here in Nepal's capital, dripping with gasoline. In front of the Bouddhanath Stupa, one of the holiest Buddhist shrines in the world, he lit himself on fire. </p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/burning-freedom-crisis-nepal-tibetan-monks-self-immolate-china-cracks-down-1175079
In Syria's Civil War, Fighters From Iran, Hezbollah And Iraqi Shiites Respond To The Fatwa To Fight With Assad Against Rebels :: <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>DAMASCUS, Syria -- A new brand of foreign fighter is appearing in Syria, including its capital city. They are fighting the rebels alongside Syrian regime troops in the country's uprising-turned-civil war, which last month marked its second anniversary. When not on the front lines, the foreign fighters seem to be protecting the Assad regime and its main installations in the heart of Damascus.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/syrias-civil-war-fighters-iran-hezbollah-iraqi-shiites-respond-fatwa-fight-assad-against-rebels
LivesOn Grants Twitter Life After Death; Social Media From The Great Beyond :: <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 dir="ltr">We may be mere mortals, but our Twitter avatars need not die with us.</p>
<p>LivesOn is a controversial <a href="http://liveson.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">post-mortem Twitter application </a>nearing its launch that enables users to tweet from the afterlife. It promises to extend your social life even after your terrestrial life is over, by keeping an active Twitter profile alive: "When your heart stops beating, you'll keep Tweeting."</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/liveson-grants-twitter-life-after-death-social-media-great-beyond-1175641
Journalists Stuck In Syria: Who's Still Missing As The War Drags On :: <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>More than two years of destruction and violence have taken their toll on the people of Syria, where rebels are fighting to overthrow dictatorial President Bashar Assad.</p>
<p>At least 70,000 people have died, and millions of Syrians are displaced. But the suffering is not contained by national borders -- it has seeped into surrounding countries where refugees have crowded into camps, and into the broader region where stability has been threatened.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/journalists-stuck-syria-whos-still-missing-war-drags-1175367
VIDEO: Controversial tax changes explained :: Simon Clemison gives a summary of the controversial tax changes that have come into effect.
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Arsenal Vs. West Brom: Where To Watch Live Stream Online, Preview, Team News And Prediction :: <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>Assistant coach Steve Bould has said that Arsenal's victory at Bayern Munich last month has given the side the confidence to push on and achieve a top-four spot this season.</p>
<p>Arsenal face West Brom on Saturday at the Hawthorns -- the ground where they clinched a spot in the Champions League on the final day of last season.</p>
<p>And, although, they ultimately lost the tie, Bould believes that the 2-0 win in Munich has provided the players with a lift that could lead to them going on to secure a 16th consecutive appearance in Europe's premier competition next season.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/arsenal-vs-west-brom-where-watch-live-stream-online-preview-team-news-prediction-1175057
Not Entirely Organic: Whole Foods To Label All GMO Products By 2018 :: <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>Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ:WFM) has announced it will label all products containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, carried in its U.S. and Canadian stores by 2018.</p>
<p>Walter Robb, Whole Foods' co-CEO, made the announcement alongside A.C. Gallo, the company's chief operating officer and president, during the <a href="http://www.expowest.com/ew13/public/enter.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Natural Products Expo West</a> show in Anaheim, Calif., last month.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/not-entirely-organic-whole-foods-label-all-gmo-products-2018-1175421
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