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    Children in Barbados and the eastern Caribbean: child rights - the unfinished agenda

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2009
    This report provides profile overviews of the socio-economic situation and main issues situation of children in ten Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean.
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    The HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa: convergence with tuberculosis, socioecological vulnerability, and climate change patterns

    South African Medical Journal, 2014
    This journal article argues that people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) have weakened physiological responses and are immunologically vulnerable to pathogens and stressors in their environment, putting them at a health disadvantage in climate-based rising temperatures, water scarcity, air pollution, potential water- and vector-borne disease outbreaks, and habitat redistributions.
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    Key indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 (43rd edition)

    Asian Development Bank, 2012
    This publication includes the latest available economic, financial, social and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It aims to present the latest key statistics on development issues concerning the economies of Asia and the Pacific to a wide audience. Part I of this issue is a special chapter on green urbanisation in Asia.
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    UNDP India

    UNDP is committed to help India achieve the global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)as well as the national objectives articulated in consecutive Five-Year Plans.
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    Wireless technology for social change: trends in NGO mobile use

    United Nations Foundation, 2008
    This report, published by the UN Foundation, examines real life examples of and trends in wireless technology solutions being used to drive change in the areas of health, humanitarian assistance, and environmental conservation. Largely using case studies, the authors find that NGOs’ use of mobile technology is very widespread and indispensable.
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    Tearfund

    Working with partners worldwide, Tearfund has identified three core areas of intervention. These are defined as:Public health, including HIV/AIDS.
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    CARE International

    CARE International is an NGO,a confederation of 10 national agencies that delivers relief assistance to people in need and long-term solutions to global poverty.
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    2005 World Summit outcome: achievements in brief

    United Nations and Global Security, 2005
    This fact sheet summarises the agreements made by the world’s leaders, meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York September 2005, on the action to be taken action on a range of global challenges, and changes to be made within the UN system.Areas of action include:Development:strong and unambiguous commitment by all governments, in donor and developing nations alike, to a
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    Natural resource management and human health: the forgotten link?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Almost 75% of the world’s poorest people (around 3 billion) are directly or indirectly dependent on the sustained productivity of agriculture, forestry or fisheries to secure their livelihoods, and it is estimated that productivity will have to double over the next few decades to keep up with population growth.
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    Measuring HIV/AIDS related stigma: promising practice of stigma-mitigation from across South Africa

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
    This report from the siyam’kela project looks at three focus areas that play a crucial role in stigma mitigation. The first section looks at how faith-based organisations (FBOs) are influential in shaping values and attitudes to vulnerable people in society as well as developing compassionate responses to social challenges.

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