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    An evaluation of progress toward the Millennium Development Goal one hunger target: a country-level, food and nutrition security perspective

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
    One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, and much of the progress made has been eroded by the recent global food price and economic crises.
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    Cutting world hunger in half

    Millennium Project, 2005
    It is unpleasant news that acute hunger represents 10% of the hungry yet receives most of the media coverage and attention. This paper raises the flag that chronic and hidden hunger deserves much more global attention and support.
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    How Universal is Access to Reproductive Health?: A Review of the Evidence

    United Nations Population Fund, 2010
    This report looks at the progress of achieving MDG targets relating to reproductive health and the emphasis of this report is on identifying areas where progress has been made and where it has lagged for three indicators of access to reproductive health: adolescent birth rate, contraceptive prevalence rate and unmet need for family planning.
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    Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

    World Bank, 2012
    This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of poverty eradication policies affecting especially the urban poor and the health of children.
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    United Nations High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP)

    On 9 August 2010, the Secretary-General launched the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability (GSP) that brings together renowned world figures to formulate a new blueprint for a sustainable future o
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    Progress of the world’s women: in pursuit of justice

    UN Women, 2011
    In 1911, women were allowed to vote in just two countries of the world. Today, a century later, that right is virtually universal.
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    UNDG MDG good practices (2010) - chapter 2: education and gender equality

    United Nations Development Group, 2010
    This MDG good practice publication presents a list of various constraints and challenges to the achievement of the MDGs, which each good practice has addressed in a national and/or local context. The publication does not claim to be an exhaustive list of ‘best practices’ with self-claimed objectivity.
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    Women’s empowerment, HIV and the MDGs: hearing the voices of HIV positive women

    UNDP India, 2010
    More than 25 years into the HIV and AIDS epidemic, gender inequality and unequal power relations between and among women and men continue to be major drivers of HIV transmission. Gender inequality and harmful gender norms are not only associated with the spread of HIV but also with its consequences which affect women especially HIV positive women, such as stigma and targeted violence.
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    Health Related Millennium Development Goals in Bangladesh: A Reality Check

    Unnayan Onneshan, 2010
    Globally agreed all eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality rate, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development by 2015, are closely connected and
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    Women's economic empowerment: issues paper

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011
    Economic empowerment is the capacity of women and men to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways which recognise the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and make it possible to negotiate a fairer distribution of the benefits of growth.

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