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Canada’s Foreign Aid Community Risks Losing Strong Voice for World’s Poor

CIDA funding to the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), Canada’s pre-eminent coalition to end global poverty, is in doubt. A critical and well-respected voice for the world’s poor risks being silenced if funding to CCIC is cut off.

Over 100 civil society organizations call for a Millennium Development Goal Breakthrough Plan to be achieved at the UN Summit with clear and concrete results for the 1.4 billion people who continue to live in poverty

An open letter signed by over 100 international and national civil society organizations ranging from women’s-, environmentalist-, development, faith-based and youth movements, trade unions has today been sent to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the author of “Keeping the Promise   - a forward-looking review to promote an agreed action agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.”

Please check this out!

http://www.8goalsforafrica.org/

The ‘8 GOALS FOR AFRICA’ song is part of an awareness and advocacy campaign developed by the United Nations System in South Africa on the 8 MDGs. With the World Cup just a week or so away, Africa will be in the global spotlight.

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Please check out this video link:

http://vimeo.com/11819649

The Africa Progress Panel has produced this short animation in the run up to the launch of the Africa Progress Report 2010. The video raises an important underlying question that runs throughout the report. For more information on the Africa Progress Report, visit www.africaprogresspanel.org