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February 13th, 2012:
ACP states want to intensify focus on the rights of women and children The Secretary General of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), H. E. Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, presented a list of key priorities for the organisation, amongst them a focus on good governance, the rights of women and children, and the right to decent standards of living.
February 7th, 2012:
E-action to President Sarkozy to call for the French FTT revenues to be used for fighting poverty and climate change President Sarkozy has repeatedly stated that a significant part of the revenue from the FTT will go to development and climate adaption. But in his last speech on Sunday 29th January, he said that the unilateral FTT would be used for the national "deficit". This opportunity in France is of huge significance to the global campaign - a weak FTT in France would set a dangerous precedent for a wider Eurozone/coalition of the willing agreement later in 2012.
February 6th, 2012:
The risk of dying between the age of 1 to 5 is 75 percent higher for girls in India: UN report The new United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs data for 150 countries over 40 years shows that India and China are the only two countries in the world where female infant mortality is higher than male infant mortality in the 2000s.
Plan Europe is a regional network within Plan International which links 11 European offices of Plan and our 50 programme countries around the world with the Plan EU Office in Brussels.Plan has the active support of 700,000 individual donors in EU member states through child sponsorship. Plan Europe strives to ensure that the promotion and protection of the rights of the child is a priority for the EU’s external action in policy and practice.
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Advocacy and Campaigns Officer Elisa Baldini comments on Bill Gates' speech at the European Parliament.
Monday, January 30th, 2012As EU Funding Manager, I was able to accompany the EC ROM mission to South-East Asia at the end of November 2011.
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