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UNICEF Video/Audio Resources. Many of these UNICEF videos are used in this study. Their video and audio podcasts can be subscribed to here also. "For every child - Health, Education, Equality, Protection. Advance
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Wikipedia entry on Stephen Lewis. In his 2005 Massey Lectures, Lewis relates that he was in danger of flunking out of university at the beginning of the 1960s, and so left his studies and took up a clerical position with the Socialist International, where he received an invitation to a conference in Ghana. He attended, and instead of returning to Canada, spent more than a year working, traveling, and teaching in various places in Africa. That relatively brief sojourn would be a key influence on his life, especially after the turn of the new millennium. |
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The Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF) helps to ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa at the grassroots level. It provides care to women who are ill and struggling to survive; assists orphans and other AIDS affected children; supports heroic grandmothers who almost single-handedly care for their orphan grandchildren; and supports associations of people living with HIV/AIDS. |
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Massey Lectures 2005. The first lectures is on-line at CBC to listen to. As he says in the book's introduction, "I'm addicted to the spoken word' speaking is my vocation."
“I have spent the last four years watching people die.” With these wrenching words, diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis opens his 2005 Massey Lectures. Lewis’s determination to bear witness to the desperate plight of so many in Africa and elsewhere is balanced by his unique, personal, and often searing insider’s perspective on our ongoing failure to help. |
Pittman
Interview |
Patrick Pittman of RTRfm in Australia interviewed Stephen Lewis on Race
Against Time. (17 minutes.) "Lewis is a man who, despite all he has
seen since his early visits in his youth, insists on searching for the
hope in the continent." |
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The XVI International AIDS Conference - Toronto Canada - August 2006. The Conference has made available a considerable amount of the proceedings of the conference available on line. It includes Audio, Video, Abstracts, PowerPoints and Papers. Check out the Programme at a Glance for presentations of interest. |
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Watch and listen to the empassioned extra 7:35 minutes video of Stephen
Lewis final address permitted by the delegates at the Toronto AIDS 2006
Conference. The link (on the picture left) takes you to YouTube. While
there you will notice a few more videos of Stephen Lewis presented from
the YouTube lists. There are dozens of related videos there. And here is
an audio link to the previous 30 minute speech. LINK |
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Médecins Sans Frontières sponsored a satellite teleconference at the AIDS 2006 Conference, check
out the topics and listen to the podcast.
"Access to treatment has increased substantially in recent years but
with only 1.3 million of six and a half million people in need of antiretrovirals
(ARVs) receiving them, the global need is far from being met."
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Médecins Sans Frontières Website. Sign their petition. MSF urges Novartis to drop its case against the Indian government. "Over half the medicines currently used for AIDS treatment in developing
countries come from India and such medicines are used to treat over 80%
of the 80,000 AIDS patients in Médecins Sans Frontières projects today." |
Subscribe to
UNICEF podcast |
UNICEF PODCAST PAGE. Here's a small sample of the UNICEF podcasts available on the present themes. If podcasting is new to you here is some guidance.
David Anthony - UNICEF’s Editor of the State of the World’s Children Report,
David Anthony, talks about the Millenium Development Goals as they connect
to excluded and invisible children.
Maryam Farzanegan - Innocenti Research Centre Child Protection Officer,
Maryam Farzenegan, illuminates how UNICEF’s mandate connects with excluded
and invisible children’s issues.
Wivina Belmonte - UNICEF Campaign Manager for the Global Campaign on Children
and AIDS, Wivina Belmonte, explains how AIDS among children and invisibility
are linked.
Cream Wright - Girls’ education and how it links to exclusion and invisibility. |
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MIllenium Development Goals.
At the World Summit of September 2005, world leaders committed to adopt, by
2006, and implement comprehensive national development strategies to achieve the
internationally agreed development goals and objectives, including the
Millennium Development Goals. Such “MDG-based poverty reduction strategies” were
a core recommendation of Investing in Development. The UN Millennium Project has
worked extensively with countries already engaged in preparing MDG-based poverty
reduction strategies. These are the goals begun 1990 and targeted complete by
2015:
| 1 - Eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger |
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5 - Improve maternal
health. |
| 2. - Achieve universal primary
education. |
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6 - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and
other diseases. |
| 3 - Promote gender equality and
emplower women. |
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7. Ensure environmental
substainability. |
| 4 - Reduce child
mortality. |
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8. Develop a global partnership for
development. |
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2006. |
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Larry has discovered a superb website that promotes the central issues of the MDGs called The Pelikan Web with an e-newsletter called Solidarity, Sustainability and Non-Violence. With Volume 3 January 2007, he launches into an updated consideration
of each of the MDG's. It is the site of Luis T. Gutierrez - one of the
most remarkable private efforts you will encounter on the internet. It
is well done, prolific, efficient and unexpected. For example check out
this mathematically derrived chart that shows how wrong the world and United
Nations is to consider the 8 Millenium Development Goals as equal and to
be programmed in linear fashion. He shows them to be highly inter-related
and in all cases dependant upon the 3'd goal of woman's equality. It all
hinges on this goal. Here is his graphic on the centrality of gender equality. within the MDG2- Education issue Feb 07 |
DePaul
University |
Millenium Development Goals Page. There is a considerable amount of material at DePaul University, including
a 7 minute video on the MDGs. Both UN and Civil Society info. |
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In the Name of God Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot has made a crucifix for the right to contraception and sexual education. It was unveiled 1 December 2006, International Aids Day in front of Copenhagen Cathedral. The copper sculpture depicts a pregnant teenager in natural size crucified on a big cross. It is a harsh comment to the impact of the fundamentalist branch of the Christian church, with President Bush and the Pope in the lead, on contraception and sexual education. Women, including teenagers, bear the brunt of the disastrous consequences of the ban on condoms based on ´Christian´ morality. A larger picture of the sculpture in front of the cathedral. Thanks to Larry for finding
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"Education, Peace and Human Security for Children and Youth:
Case study in Eastern Africa", Julius Mboizi, University of Dar-es-Salaam. |
A Paper from IPRA 2006. "The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include a central focus on access to education by children and youth in all countries. Specifically, the second MDG is about all children having access to education and the third MDG is on achieving gender equality in primary and secondary education levels by the year 2005. This would greatly the goals for human development and poverty reduction. The target for the second MDG to be attained by 2005 has not yet been achieved, and neither has the third MDG. In 2006 millions of school-age children and youth in sub-Saharan Africa are not in school with girls making up over 60%. Despite considerable improvement over the years in education of the girl child in most eastern Africa countries and Africa as a whole, the gap between male and female students in school is glaring. This is particularly palpable in rural areas, where unfortunately wide-spread negative attitudes still place girls and women in subordinate status to boys and men." |
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The 3 by 5 Initiative of WHO. The "3 by 5" initiative, launched by UNAIDS and WHO in 2003,
was a global TARGET to provide three million people living with HIV/AIDS
in low and middle-income countries with life-prolonging antiretroviral
treatment (ART) by the end of 2005. It was a step towards the GOAL of making
universal access of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment accessible for all
who need them as a human right. Click the logo to visit the project site.
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Click HERE to hear a 22 minute BBC documentary on the 3 x 5 Initiative Part I. Nigel
Wrench travels to Malawi and South Africa to discover if the world has
kept its promise to give three million of its poorest inhabitants a future.
Part One. And HERE for part II. These are an on the ground perspective. They are superlative. |
