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Photo of the week: fifty years of independence but conflict remains

5 July 2010 by Archie Law | 1 comment

This week marks 50 years of independence for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Yet, a fierce conflict continues in the east of the DRC where civilians have been suffering immensely since the 1990s.

Women in particular have been targeted. In the first nine months of 2009 alone, there were almost 8000 reported cases of rape in eastern DRC. These rapes included girls as young as two and women as old as 80.

A woman walks along a road with her belongings and baby on her back near the town of Kibati, near the provinicial capital of Goma.

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Tags: actionaid, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Food Rights, un, women's rights

Change is a coming….

27 May 2010 by Archie Law | 3 comments

Last week at the Australian National University, ActionAid partnered with the ANU’s Asia Pacific Centre for Diplomacy to present the second policy dialogue in the Crises in Human Development series.

This dialogue featured speakers from the Australian Government’s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade, AusAID, the ANU and Adriano Campolina who is ActionAid’s Regional Director for the Americas and our International Director responsible for our Food Rights theme.

We were particularly fortunate to have Adriano participating given that he had been in Dublin earlier in the week participating in civil society consultations with the UN Secretary General’s High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF)

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Tags: actionaid, Food Rights

How to Achieve MDG1 and Halve Global Hunger!

14 May 2010 by Archie Law | 1 comment

Next week in Canberra ActionAid and the Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy at the ANU are partnering to host the second in a four part series on crises facing human development. This second dialogue focuses on the Global Food Crisis and links into ActionAid’s campaign on MDG 1 which commits governments to halving poverty and halving the number of people suffering from chronic malnutrition.

The number of hungry people in the world is rapidly increasing and for the first time in human history, more than one billion people in the world – one-sixth of humanity – are now hungry . Nearly one in three of the world’s children are growing up chronically malnourished , with hunger playing a contributing factor in up to half of all child deaths .

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Tags: actionaid, Food Rights, Milennium Development Goals

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