Philip Rouwenhorst
NEW YORK, Nov 26 2007 (IPS) – An international campaign to eradicate polio received a major boost Monday with the announcement that the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation would give 100 million dollars to support intensified immunisation in the handful of countries where the virus remains active.
The grant went to the Rotary Foundation, an organisation of service clubs with over 1.2 million members worldwide, and its PolioPlus Programme.
It #39s a very large grant for us. Certainly not the largest we #39ve ever made, but on the other hand this is perhaps one of the largest possibilities we #39ve had to deal with: ultimate eradication of this horror from the lives of children. There #39s almost no figure that is too high to invest in that possible end, W…
Monika Manke
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 17 2008 (IPS) – Joyce and Tanya two women of different ages, nationalities, cultures and religions share something: both became victims of a missing goal.
Maria José Alcalá, senior advisor at UNIFEM Credit: UN Photo
Combating violence against women is what Inés Alberdi, executive director of the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), calls the missing goal, because it is not an issue addressed by the U.N. s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
But it is an issue with a lot of faces, like J…