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Sunday, March 09, 2008
Child Mortality - UN WIRE
UNICEF: Child mortality rates fall, challenges remain
Almost 10 million children die every year before their fifth birthday, most from preventable causes, UNICEF said Tuesday. The good news is that the global annual death toll is lower than ever before, but children in several regions -- including Africa, South Asia and the Middle East -- remain very vulnerable. Read UNICEF's press release. Reuters (1/22)
UNICEF sees progress for children, but big challenges remain
Life for children has been improved in the past several years in some areas, including boosting education access and reducing child mortality rates, UNICEF says in a new progress report. But it warns that "much more must be done" to address problems such as HIV prevention, pneumonia and maternal mortality if the UN's Millennium Development Goals on children's health are to stand any chance of being met by 2015. Access UNICEF's report. BBC (12/10) , ABC (Australia) (12/10)
UNICEF: Child mortality rate tumbles to record low
Bottle feeding, improvements in world economies and campaigns against diseases have helped push the number of deaths of young children to below 10 million a year for the first time since such record-keeping began in 1960, UNICEF reported Thursday. UNICEF officials note that the figures come from surveys conducted in 2005 and do not reflect a recent influx of funds used to fight disease in the Third World. "We feel we're at a tipping point now," said Dr. Peter Salama, UNICEF's chief medical officer. "In a few years' time, it will all translate into a very exciting drop." For more analysis on the report, read the newest post on UN Dispatch. The New York Times (9/13) , BBC (9/13)
UN calls for action on child hunger
An estimated 800,000 malnourished children under the age of five in Central America and the Dominican Republic are the result of decades of inaction and cost the region billions of dollars every year, the United Nations World Food Programme and the Economic Commission for Latin America warn in a report. "Child hunger is a moral issue, but as this study demonstrates it is also a critical economic concern," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called the report "a call to action." AlertNet.org/Reuters (6/3)
In 2002, the United Nations launched an initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo known as the Children's Parliament, which has grown into a well-respected body advocating justice in matters involving children. The body, which The Washington Post calls a "beacon of justice," hears lots of cases from children who may be abused or neglected, and it uses its voice to, for example, lobby for the release of child prisoners. The Washington Post (8/11)
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UN WIRE - Guardian.co.UK
Action on poverty leaving women and girls behind - report·
Systematic discrimination to blame, says ActionAid
· Inequality will prevent UN hitting development goals
Larry Elliott, economics editor The Guardian, Friday March 7 2008
Article history About this article Close This article appeared in the Guardian on Friday March 07 2008 on p33 of the Financial section. It was last updated at 09:39 on March 07 2008.
Systematic discrimination against girls and women in the world's poorest countries will prevent the United Nations meeting its goals to reduce poverty, according to a report published today by the charity network ActionAid. The report says gender inequality must be put at the heart of the development agenda if those aims are to be met.
ActionAid said girls and women were more likely to be poor, hungry, illiterate or sick than boys and men, and called on Britain and other governments to tackle the disparities. Amid growing concern that the millennium development goals set by the UN for 2015 will not be met, the charity said a focus on women was vital to put the international community back on track.
Laura Turquet, the women's rights policy officer of ActionAid, said: "Gordon Brown announced that 2008 would be the year of action on world poverty. But progress can only be accelerated if the world's governments tackle the real reasons why women are being left behind."
The report found that women and girls formed the majority of the poor and hungry, and, in south Asia, women are getting a shrinking share of income as the economy continues to grow. Ten million more girls than boys miss out on primary school, while African women accounted for 75% of all young people living with HIV/Aids.
ActionAid said the aim of universal primary education was being hampered in Africa by the 40bn hours spent by women and children collecting water each year -equivalent to a year's labour for the entire workforce of France.
While it praised Brown for putting development at the top of the political agenda, it said the "critical link" between gender equality and poverty had been lost, and leadership had been missing. "The prime minister's pledge to help accelerate progress towards universal education will not be possible unless the obstacles to girls' attendance are addressed. No 10's new International Health Partnership can only be deemed successful if it has an impact on the scandalous rates of maternal mortality and provides women with access to the safe sexual and reproductive health services they are entitled to."
Brown has issued a "call for action" in 2008 to ensure the UN meets its 2015 goals of halving the number of people living on less than a dollar a day, cutting infant mortality by two-thirds, cutting maternal mortality by three-quarters and putting every child in school.
A special session of the UN will be held in September to discuss ways of making speedier progress, with discussions centred on four areas: health and education; climate change and the environment; the role of business; and trade and growth.
ActionAid said discussions at the UN and at this year's meeting of the G8 industrial nations in Japan would only succeed if they started with the recognition that the "development emergency is first and foremost an emergency for women and girls".
The report added: "The disproportionate impact of poverty on girls is not an accident, but the result of systematic discrimination." On current trends, the goal of halving hunger would not be met until 2035, 40 countries would not have equal enrolments for boys and girls until after 2025 and current progress in cutting maternal mortality rates was less than one-fifth of what was needed to meet the goal.
The total number of HIV/Aids infections in 2007 was 33 million - the highest ever.
Turquet said: "Getting the goals back on track is about more than governments saving face. Fundamentally it is about women realising their basic human rights. As the lack of progress on maternal health shows, people's lives are at stake."
· Hit or Miss, ActionAid; actionaid.org.uk
berita ini di kutip dari UN wire dan www.guardian.uk
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UN WIRE NEWS
Bigger role for women in solving global conflicts urged
Officials from the United Nations, the European Union and other institutions, as well as several ministers and other leaders have urged that women should be given a bigger voice in helping the world overcome conflicts and poverty. The call came at a conference in Brussels ahead of Saturday's International Women's Day. USA TODAY/Associated Press (3/6)
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Hari Perempuan 8 Maret - Happy Women's Day
Setiap tanggal 8 Maret diperingati hari Perempuan Internasional
dua hari yang lalu saya mendengar di TV RI bahwa Menteri Pemberdayaan
perempuan Mutia Hatta berada di New York, Markas PBB
hasil pertemuan itu beliau menyampaikan bahwa pelaksanaan Gender Mainstreaming
Indonesia akan menjadi role model sukses bagi negara-negara lain. Selamat - congratulation!
Setiap negara, wilayah, daerah dan desa tentu punya nilai dan sudut pandang
yang berbeda menyikapi masalah gender ini, ada yang tidak masalah dan ada yang
menganggap masih terus bermasalah. sama halnya dalam memperingati hari perempuan ini, ada yang memanjakan perempuan dan lain-lain, mari kita hargai perbedaan itu.
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Agenda Maret 2008
Senin, 3 Maret, Drs. Hasanudin, Asdir ADm. dan Keuangan Pascasarjana IIQ melaksanakan Ujian Pendahuluan S# di UIN, selamat dan kami tunggu ujian promosi terbukanya. Selasa ini kami ikut bergembira sambil menyantap Nasi Padang yang pedas
dan mantap. Kita tunggu nasi buryani pada acara promosinya.amin.
Selasa, 4 Maret 2008, Rapat follow up pelatihan metode penelitian para Dosen
Pukul 10.00 WIB. sedianya ditunda sampai besok Rabu, 5 Maret 2008,
Pukul 13.00 di Ruang rapat IIQ. Alsan penundaan, Dr. A. Munif Suratmaputra,hadir di seminiar mewakili Komis Fatwa MUI menyampaikan makalah di FK UI untuk tema Otopsi.
Rabu, 5 Maret 2008, pukul 12.00 - 16.00 Ketua PSW IIQ diundang untuk menghadiri
acara Pengukuhan Kepengurusan Korps Perempuan Majelis De'wah Islamiyah
Hotel Santika, Jl. Aipda Ks. Tubun No. 7 Slip Jakarta Barat
Selamat kepada Para Pengurus Baru semoga sukses dengan prgramnya.
Mohon maaf kami tidka bisa hadir karena bersamaan waktu ada rapat di IIQ.
Rapat dipimpin oleh Dr. KH. A. Munif Suratmaputra, Purek 1.
Kamis, 6 Maret, 2008 Pukul 10.00, acara rapat Finalisasi Pedoman Akademik IIQ Jakarta.
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