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Sam Daley-Harris - a friend of UYDO - is founder of RESULTS, a citizen lobby on ending global poverty, and founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Earlier this year (May 2010) Sam gave a talk at TEDx NJ Libraries entitled: “Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption”. We thought it was something you might like t

The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa will be the first such tournament held on the African continent and we at UYDO don’t want you to miss a thing! Here, especially for you, is a free double-sided UYDO World Cup Wallchart for you to track all of this June/July's games! Print this off, hang it up, pass it on!

To achieve World Cup success this summer, football pla

From what I can see, Nepal's latest crisis isn't getting much international coverage. A few correspondents' updates are hidden in the South Asia pages of international news agencies' websites, but you've got to search for them. I'm not up to providing a concise background of the situation or timely updates, the situation is simply too complicated. So instead, here is a short reading list:

For a

After years of struggle, both maternal mortality and polio rates are slowly coming down. These are long needed signs of success on the MDG health front!

First, I quote the end of my post as this is a long shout and the conclusion is important in my opinion:

Climate change is not a conspiracy to deny us a libertarian ideal by creating some bogus sense of responsibility to our children to ensure our growth is sustainable. Rather, climate change reveals that we do have such a responsibility, no matter how difficult that might be to swa

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The World Health Organisation recently published its annual global report on March 24th, chosen to coincide with World Tuberculosis day. At a time when the majority of global health spending is focused on HIV/AIDS and malaria, the loudest message sent by WHO was the necessity for urgent action to combat Tuber

Last week, I went to see a screening of Samson and Delilah at The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). As the title suggests, the movie is about two young people, Samson and Delilah, and their journey to discover themselves and one another.

The environment is set in an Aboriginal Community in the desert in Australia. You quickly discover that Samson and Delilah live in a povert

After a year of wrangling and near political suicide, the Health Care Reform Bill was finally passed by the US Congress yesterday. It now has to be approved by the Senate, and although it is quite certain that the Republicans will do their best to delay the process, they are no longer in a position to derail it completely.

For the first time in its history, the United States has approved of

The ICC and internationl criminal justice have been criticised by many as being irrelevant and too distanced from the victims of being investigated as perpetrators of crimes against humanity. After the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was set up in Arusha, Tanzania. This provoked great controversy as the most high-profile genocidaires were being tried outside o

 

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