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	<title>Archie@ActionAid &#187; actionaid</title>
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	<description>Notes from Archie Law, CEO of ActionAid Australia</description>
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		<title>In Cambodia, the mobile is mightier than the gun</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/06/21/in-cambodia-the-mobile-is-mightier-than-the-gun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergencies and Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post from ActionAid senior program coordinator Sally Henderson. We are sitting on a raised wooden structure, surrounded by verdant forests, the kind which feels like it would grow on you if you stood still for long enough. Surrounding us, are members from a group of community foresters who live in the village of Sambour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From a volunteer&#8217;s eyes: ActionAid projects in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/03/22/from-a-volunteers-eyes-actionaid-projects-in-bangladesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Space]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post from ActionAid volunteer Mahdia Rahman, who visited Bangladesh recently and saw the work of ActionAid in the country. As a volunteer for ActionAid Australia, I have always wanted to see the results of ActionAid’s work first hand, so when I returned recently to my birthplace, Bangladesh, I decided to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: the link between food and revolution?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/02/25/photo-of-the-week-the-link-between-food-and-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/02/25/photo-of-the-week-the-link-between-food-and-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photo of the Week]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milennium Development Goals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of food security has been rapidly growing in importance over the last few years and has played an important role in many political events, such as the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Even back in 2009, Hilary Clinton noted that there had been over sixty food riots in the preceding two years, arguing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: a victory in the fight against HIV?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/01/28/photo-of-the-week-a-victory-in-the-fight-against-hiv/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/01/28/photo-of-the-week-a-victory-in-the-fight-against-hiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photo of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[actionaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milennium Development Goals]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/?p=836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A small but important victory was won a few weeks ago, when the Mumbai Patent office rejected Abbot Laboratories’ application for a patent in India on its drug Kaletra. The result of this is that generic versions of the drug can now be sourced in India, making it much more affordable for the countless people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One year on from Haiti’s “Goudou Goudou”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/01/10/one-year-on-from-haiti%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgoudou-goudou%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2011/01/10/one-year-on-from-haiti%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgoudou-goudou%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergencies and Conflict]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake in which over 230,000 people perished. I wish I could be using this occasion to celebrate the amazing progress made in rebuilding this shattered country, but I’m afraid nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, recovering from a large-scale natural disaster always takes time &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: following the ghost of Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/12/08/photo-of-the-week-following-the-ghost-of-copenhagen/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/12/08/photo-of-the-week-following-the-ghost-of-copenhagen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photo of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[actionaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate adaption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/?p=763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The COP 16 talks in Cancún have been quietly proceeding with none of the busy fanfare of that seen in Copenhagen last year. There have been a number of concerns about the talks in Cancún, including the lack of participation from the world’s poor. According to UN reports, it is the poor who are bearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: microcredit in motion</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/12/01/photo-of-the-week-microcredit-in-motion/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/12/01/photo-of-the-week-microcredit-in-motion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photo of the Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[actionaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microcredit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microcredit loans have taken a beating in the press lately, with reports claiming in India, farmers are committing suicide after facing defaults in their loan repayments. In India, microcredit finance is becoming increasingly privatised and perhaps that is the biggest problem with microcredit loans in that situation. When microcredit is given with a purpose of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: the real diamonds of Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/11/05/photo-of-the-week-the-real-diamonds-of-sierra-leone/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/11/05/photo-of-the-week-the-real-diamonds-of-sierra-leone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[actionaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kola Tree Community School, in Western Area, Sierra Leone is part of ActionAid’s Access to Primary Education project in Sierra Leone. This type of project is vital in Sierra Leone, which is still facing reconstruction challenges eight years after the civil war ended. Tens of thousands perished in the decade long war which saw as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: helping child soldiers find a better future</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/10/26/photo-of-the-week-helping-child-soldiers-find-a-better-future/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/10/26/photo-of-the-week-helping-child-soldiers-find-a-better-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Child soldiers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Decades of war and poverty created enormous risks for children in Afghanistan who face displacement, destruction of their homes and communities, landmines, hunger and discrimination. Afghanistan sustained decades of war and poverty before the Taliban regime’s overthrow in late 2001. Children are especially vulnerable. Years of war destroyed schools and social areas, leaving young people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo of the week: 1GOAL in Uganda</title>
		<link>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/10/20/photo-of-the-week-1goal-in-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.actionaid.org.au/archie/2010/10/20/photo-of-the-week-1goal-in-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Archie Law</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Education is a universal human right and, by unlocking other rights, it is the key that enables people to overcome poverty. This is something that our 1GOAL ambassadors, Alishia and William have learnt more about in Uganda. Last week, William and Alishia traveled to Uganda to witness firsthand what effect a lack of education is [...]]]></description>
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