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  • A woman dies every minute in childbirth A woman dies every minute in childbirth

    As the finance ministers from the Group of Eight prepare to meet in Rome, eight women from poor countries around the world, uniting as the “W8”, today demanded that action to prevent the deaths of half a million women every year in childbirth.

    2009-06-10
  • Help End Global Poverty: Toilets For All Help End Global Poverty: Toilets For All

    March 22 is World Water Day. Clean water and sanitation facilities are the building blocks of social and economic development in every society around the world. Yet 890 million people – about a seventh of the world’s population – do not have access to safe drinking water. Some 2.5 billion people also live without access to basic sanitation; 1.2 billion of which have noaccess to any form of sanitation. This means no toilets, no latrines, and no separation of human waste from daily life.

    2009-03-20
  • Canadian coalition unveils provocative posters to highlight global sanitation and water crisis Canadian coalition unveils provocative posters to highlight global sanitation and water crisis

    To mark this year's upcoming World Toilet Day (Wednesday, November 19, 2008), a coalition of Canadian organizations concerned about the global sanitation and water crisis unveil two new hard-hitting posters to raise Canadians' awareness to the fact that 2.5 billion people presently live without access to basic sanitation, while nearly one billion people do not have access to safe drinking water.

    2008-11-17
  • Will.i.am launches song live in New York as part of new campaign action to end poverty. Will.i.am launches song live in New York as part of new campaign action to end poverty.

    ‘in my name’, a new song by Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am written for the Global Call to Action against Poverty will premiere today – across MTV, YouTube and inmyname.com

    2008-09-25
  • Afghanistan: worst place in the world to give birth, says Oxfam Afghanistan: worst place in the world to give birth, says Oxfam

    Cutting maternal mortality by three quarters is the MDG most severely off track, with half a million women still dying in childbirth every year – most of them needlessly

    2008-09-24
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