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Investing in Palestinian Children is Key to the Future

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Submitted by ANERA on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 11:32am

You don’t need to spend a lot of time in Palestinian communities to realize how difficult life is for our children. They are the innocent victims of the economic, social and health conditions around them.

Mothers' Index Shows Need for Maternal Health Funding

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Submitted by Sue Pleming on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 9:28am

InterAction member Save the Children released its annual “State of the World’s Mothers” report today, reminding those holding the purse strings why it is so important to fund maternal and child health care programs worldwide.

World Malaria Day: Local Art and Music Pave the Way

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Submitted by InterAction Communications on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 4:59pm

In the developing world, malaria is a leading cause of death, affecting 3.3 billion people worldwide and causing almost 1 million deaths each year. In Africa alone, a child dies of malaria every 45 seconds. Not only is malaria deadly, it is also easily preventable and treatable.

New Approaches Signal Change in Malaria Fight

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Submitted by Joan Bolger on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 4:41pm

According to estimates from the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly one million children do not reach their fifth birthday because they die from malaria each year.

Truth and Consequences

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Submitted by Margaret Christoph on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 4:21pm

For Earth Day 2011, forget the blame game. Think of the consequences of keeping the status quo.

Global Governance: The Need for Security

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Submitted by InterAction Communications on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 4:52pm

Back at the University of California, Davis, we learn that one of the challenges international organizations face, particularly the United Nations, is implementing international law. The Rwandan genocide instantly comes to mind. The neglect and abandon that nations portrayed showed an ugly truth about global governance. It took the United States more than two years to reach internal consensus to intervene and stop the killing.

The Urgency of Curbing Global Food Price Volatility

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Submitted by Joan Bolger on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 2:18pm

According to the World Bank, since June 2010 another 44 million people have fallen into poverty because of the spike in food costs; every minute another 170 people join the ranks of the extremely poor—those who spend on average 85 cents of their daily budget of $1.25 on food.

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