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30 July 2009 |
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MILF signs action plan with UN to ensure protection of children affected by armed conflict |
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed an action plan today with the United Nations to ensure that children affected by armed conflict are protected. Following consultative meetings with the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Children and Armed Conflict and UN children’s agency UNICEF, the MILF today committed to concrete and time-bound activities pertaining to unimpeded access by monitoring teams, prevention of recruitment, release and reintegration of any children under 18, and awareness and capacity building on child rights and child protection mechanisms within the MILF.
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24 July 2009 |
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MDG compliance of RP very slow
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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has confirmed what Social Watch Philippines (SWP) has been saying in its critique of the national-budget inputs – the country’s achievement of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly putting an end to poverty and hunger, are not only on the brink of failure, but the trend is reversing.
Renaud Meyer, UNDP country director, said on Thursday the Philippine overall performance for the realization of the MDGs – goals set by consensus by the United Nations – is deficient so that the situation is expected to get worse due to the global recession. “Unfortunately, the global recession is negatively affecting the attainment of the MDGs.”
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24 July 2009 |
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RP not doing enough vs AIDS
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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) yesterday said the Philippines has not done enough to curb the rise of HIV infections in the country.
Citing official government records, UNDP country director Renaud Meyer said that about 89 percent of reported HIV transmissions were due to unprotected sex.
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18 July 2009 |
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ACT for Peace, UNFPA to help displaced persons
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With the growing concern towards those affected by the recent spate of conflicts in some areas in Mindanao, donor-funded programs will continue to reinforce coordinated relief and rehabilitation efforts to address the basic and immediate needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Mindanao, officials said.
In the recent Media Forum of the Mindanao Information Network for Development and Peace (MINDPeace), the Action for Conflict Transformation (ACT) for Peace Programme and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said that they are looking at a more coordinated effort in delivering basic services to IDPs in conflict-affected areas in Mindanao.
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6 July 2009 |
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Economic crisis imminently threatens economic survival of poor countries
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The United Nations Millennium Campaign is warning that the ongoing economic crisis is likely to bring the economies of many developing countries to the brink of collapse and threatens the very survival of their citizens. According to the African Development Bank, countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya could run out of foreign reserves to purchase goods necessary for survival in a matter of weeks. At the same time, countries including Laos, Senegal, Uganda, Cape Verde and Sudan are cutting expenditures on poverty alleviation for desperately poor citizens. Experts predict that spending on core development, including the Millennium Development Goals, could decline by $200 billion as a result of the crisis.
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3 July 2009 |
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Senator urges government to reduce school dropouts
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Opposition Sen. Chiz Escudero yesterday urged government to reduce, if not eliminate, dropout rates in public elementary and high schools in six years.
“We should be able to graduate more students in both levels if not achieve universal primary education by 2015, as targeted in the UN Millennium Development Goals,” he said after speaking at a forum on education at the AIM Center in Makati.
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