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...combat the two diseases. In 2008 about 60% of the world's funding for research into major epidemics went to AIDS and malaria; diarrhea received a tiny fraction in comparison. Just 4% of all U.S. funding for research into major developing-world epidemics in 2007 went to diarrhea. The European Commission has given about $1.33 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria since it was created in 2002. No specific funds are dedicated to diarrhea programs, though the Commission funds health services in poor countries and helps upgrade water and sanitation services. The International Centre...
Cash-for-clunkers programs were first instituted at the state level in the early 1990s as a way to reduce automobile emissions. In a column in the New York Times last summer, Blinder suggested adapting these efforts into a national stimulus program. Then several European countries beat the U.S. to the punch...
...food relief into its own hands, pushing international NGOs to the sidelines. "Giving publicity to the issue angered the government so much that this year they decided to handle most of the activities by themselves, far away from the spotlight of non-governmental actors," a coordinator of a European NGO (who requested anonymity) tells TIME. (See pictures on the front lines of hunger...
...which has maintained an iron grip over the country since 1962, and ruled out any talk of engagement. But earlier this year Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged that such trade barriers weren't having an effect on the junta's behavior. (Shortly after the Suu Kyi verdict, the European Union announced the tightening of its own sanctions against the regime.) In the same way that it has re-engaged with North Korea in recent weeks, so, too, may the Obama Administration pursue a less isolationist stance toward Burma...
...beginning, the signing was seen as a possible tool to achieve and support justice. After we studied it carefully, its details and consequences, our vision was very clear not to ratify it. And therefore we did not. Even in the Cotonou Agreement which created a partnership between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group, there were amendments made to abide by the ICC and we refused to sign these amendments...