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Photo of the week: are we on track for the Millennium Development Goals?

24 August 2010 by Archie Law | 2 comments

On Friday 13 2010, ActionAid held the second part of a seminar series with the Asia Pacific Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney.

Guest panellists from ActionAid, the University of Sydney and the Australian Education Union participated in a panel discussion titled “Are we on track for the Millennium Development Goals?” with regard to the MDG 2, which centres on universal access to a full course of primary education.

Children study at the school set up five years ago by women’s advocate Rubeena Gulnaar in the town of Mohamadbad in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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What’s the link between economic growth and human development?

25 June 2010 by Archie Law | 3 comments

Last week I attended a fantastic conference that the Lowy Institute organised on innovative approaches to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It was a bit of a star studded line up with a terrific array of development practitioners from civil society, government, the UN and the World Bank.

For me the most interesting question was raised in the first panel. The question concerned the links between economic growth and human development. This produced a diverse range of opinions, as you’d expect.

The World Bank’s view was that robust and sustainable economic growth is the primary driver of human development. At the same time, the Bank acknowledged that inequality is the biggest constraint to achieving the MDGs in the region.  That all sounds a bit confused to me so maybe we need to talk some more with them about that.

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Photo of the week: who pays?

15 March 2010 by Archie Law | 2 comments

It’s hard to believe some supermarkets still source their products from factories that underpay their workers and subject them to horrifying working conditions.

Mercy (not pictured), is one of 500,000 women processing cashew nuts for a living in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India. These women often suffer from dermatitis, blistering and skin discolouration from shelling nuts.

 

“I get headaches; I get dizziness and vomiting from breathing in the smoke” says Mercy

“I get headaches; I get dizziness and vomiting from breathing in the smoke” says Mercy

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Photo of the week: the plight of railway children

1 March 2010 by Archie Law | 3 comments

For children living in poverty or violence in India, running away can seem the only way out – but they often find themselves even worse off. Many end up living on railway platforms around the country.

CAPTION: A young boy seeks shelter on a railway platform in Bhopal, India.

A young boy seeks shelter on a railway platform in Bhopal, India.

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Photo of the week: ending illegal practices

11 January 2010 by Archie Law | No comments

Manju Bai works with manual scavenging in the village Akyia Dev in Madhya Pradesh in India. She is part of the Garima Campaign, but not yet liberated.

Manju Bai works with manual scavenging in the village Akyia Dev in Madhya Pradesh in India. She is part of the Garima Campaign, but not yet liberated.

PHOTO: FIROZ AHMAN FIROZ/ACTIONAID

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