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Afghan entrepreneurs in the Chora district of Uruzgan can now obtain small loans for setting up a business or investing in existing ventures. This week the microcredit institution World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) set up a new office in Ali Shirzai, the district centre.
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GlobalFundWomen: #MENA: #Saudi #Arabia bans #Moroccan #women from traveling to #Mecca http://bit.ly/dqxly5 via @globalvoices
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International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell saw for himself how british aid is changing lives when he spent Saturday night in a rural village in the Azernet Berbere district of Ethiopia.
DFID News Stories

Sustainable Development Program Director, Michael Northrop, discusses the government’s role in investing in renewable energy in this podcast hosted by Mary-Charlotte of Santa Fe Radio Café.  The podcast is part of Santa Fe Radio Café’s series about the economic, environmental, and human consequences of failing to address the effects of climate change. <a target="_blank" …
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In observation of International Child Protection Day, celebrated worldwide each June 1, USAID’s Maternal and Child Health Improvement Project (NOVA 2) marked the opening of the new School of Motherhood (SOM) at the Hrazdan Medical Center in Kotayk.
USAID Mission Press Releases: Europe and Eurasia

Minister Oda Concludes Trip to Mozambique and Mali to Advance Canada’s Muskoka Initiative on Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health.
Media Releases by Category – CIDA

This case study presents the Open Society Intitute’s engagement in the development of
Liberia’s Education Pooled Fund as an argument for multi-stakeholder partnerships and
private foundation engagement in post-conflict education recovery.
Open Society Institute: Africa

Asia_Foundation: @csmonitoronline: Our Korea expert Scott Snyder on six-party talks with #NorthKorea and #China’s role http://ow.ly/2xZYe
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(New York) – The Zambian police routinely engage in cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, including torture, to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should investigate, discipline those found to be implicated, and train officers to interrogate suspects without coercion, Human Rights Watch said.
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On August 27, USAID/OFDA committed nearly $ 4.5 million for two non-governmental organizations (NGO) to support logistics and relief commodities, health, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) activities for flood-affected people in Punjab and Baluchistan provinces.
USAID Disaster Response Updates

A new call for proposals, 'Fighting Child Labour', was published on 1 July 2010, under the thematic programme Investing in People. The deadline for submission of concept notes is 10 September 2010.
Children & Youth

blog.usaid.gov – Ory Okolloh, founder of http and http://www.mzalendo.com , is one of Kenya’s rising tech stars using entrepreneurial know-how to help her people.
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Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) September 1, 2006 Hero Awardee from Vancouver, B.C., Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Miss World Canada 2003, and runner-up for Miss World that same year, was presented with the prestigious Hero Award at the United Nations Youth Summit on Friday (August 25) for her work in women’s rights. She thanked Youth for Human Rights International for [...]

At the initiative of the Netherlands and other member states, the European Union has called on the government of Chad to arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and surrender him to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. President Bashir is suspected of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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