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...years ago, 192 nations came together in New York City to reaffirm the promise of freedom from want. They established the U.N. Millennium Development Goals and pledged to achieve them by 2015. These eight goals address the root causes of global poverty: tyrants like infectious disease, hunger, and gender inequality. Now, five years from the deadline, none of the goals are on track to be accomplished. These goals, once beacons of hope in the fight on global poverty, are becoming broken promises to people across the world...
...World Health organization developed a plan to eliminate malaria globally within 15 years. The funding from governments, however, soon dried up and in 1970 the disease still plagued much of the world’s population. Today, effective global malaria control would require an estimated $5 billion a year; according to the New York Times, Americans spent 10 times that amount on cosmetics and toiletries in 2006. Europeans spent $50 billion on cigarettes...
Miranda Rosenberg ’09 co-directs the 10 Net Challenge to raise awareness and funds for global poverty and malaria eradication...
...were using on Wednesday to call more protesters into the streets, urging citizens to rally for "freedom or death." As of Wednesday night, the Kyrgyz Health Ministry had confirmed 40 deaths amid the violence, and gruesome images of bodies in the streets and badly beaten police officers filled the global airwaves...
...critics in the Senate, who may be needed to ratify international arms-control treaties, according to George Perkovich, director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Senate ratification is required to take even some of the earliest, easiest steps on the long road toward global nuclear disarmament," he says. "Obama could have offered a righteous posture review - but then had nothing concrete to show for it in terms of actual treaties...