| Eldis Development News Monitor |
Welcome to the Eldis Development News Monitor. Here, we highlight some of the more ephemeral development-related news and commentary from the web
The latest news and commentary: The House is expected to vote on Sunday on the health care bill passed by the US Senate in December. A new Website, AfricaFertilizer.org, is using the power of information technology to help spread vital information about fertilizers in Africa with the hopes of invigorating the market and improving the livelihoods of small farmers. President Piñera is not planning to cut social spending in Chile. For more than 20 years, hundreds of people have lived in a makeshift slum at the junction of a road located between Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and the Vasant Vihar neighbourhood, but now the JCBs have moved in. To combat global warming, forests must be part of the solution. How can we make good forest stewardship a reality? The events of the past two years should make us take a hard look at our models of international development. Are they fit for purpose as we enter the second decade of the twenty first century? Have recent crises in finance, food, fuel and climate created a space for alternative, and perhaps better, ideas to emerge?.. Apartheid-era pension plan is dangerous and wrongheaded, argues South African shadow minister for Finance 1GOAL: Education for All campaign welcomed the news from President Zuma’s meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown that South Africa will host a global summit on education during the World Cup this summer. Earlier this month, Pew Internet released its annual Future of the Internet report. The survey of 900 leaders forecasts the future direction of online media. In turn non-profit strategists can glean insights into the future, and how to steer their individual programs. Sexual orientation, in paricular homosexuality, as a political and social construct is a a controversial issue. Governments across Africa regard homosexuality as un-African The 4th International Community Based Adaptation (CBA) conference drew to a close on Saturday, setting a roadmap for further theory-building and knowledge sharing in this nascent but extremely promising field for the year to come. The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) is publishing requests for information on goods produced in foreign countries by child labour, forced labour, and/or forced or indentured child labour, and also on certain countries' efforts to implement their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. The emotional and psychological impact on children of the political crisis in Iran is an important and neglected issue More... |
