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UNDP calls for US$89 million to help Pakistan

Helen Clark: Achieving Development Progress in a Time of Crisis

Peru: Health in Andes gets boost from cleaner cooking

UN reports extra push needed to meet global anti-poverty goals

Helen Clark: New UN Entity, UN Women

Debate on Democracy and the Millennium Development Goals

UNDP salutes anti-poverty heroes in annual photo contest

A photograph of female and male students in Pakistan working together on a circuit board in their engineering class was one of three winning photographs of a global anti-poverty photo contest. The other two winners, judged by UNDP Goodwill Ambassador and internationally-acclaimed actor Antonio Banderas and four photo journalists, feature a boy on his way to school in India and fishermen in Viet Nam bringing in the day’s catch.

Queen of Spain, Antonio Banderas award winner in anti-poverty competition

UNDP Administrator Remarks on Post Disaster Needs Assessment

India: public-private partnership helps women change rules

UNDP project revives rural village courts in Bangladesh

The Government of Bangladesh, with technical assistance from UNDP and financial support from the European Union, has initiated a project that is reviving almost 500 rural village courts, bringing fair, accountable and accessible justice to the local level. Each court is made up of a five-member jury headed by a locally-elected official; the jury members are made up of a mix of local community members and other elected officials. They are empowered to hear both criminal and civil cases calling for damages of up to approximately US$350.

Citizens' voices against poverty will crescendo in noises heard around the world

Achieving MDGs in India

Empowering women through literacy empowers us all

Syria MDG report: the main challenge is environmental degradation

Transforming environmental disaster into development opportunities

Latin America needs serious action to achieve poverty-cutting goals

The world must help Pakistan recover with a new vision, says UNDP

Antonio Banderas joins MDG campaign in Latin America & the Caribbean

Nepal makes strides towards Millennium Development Goals

Nepal has achieved strong progress on several of the eight globally agreed goals related to poverty, education, health and environmental sustainability, according to a report released this week.