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Benin: developed countries have moral responsibility to LDCs

Ambassador Jean-Francis Regis Zinsou, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Benin to the United Nations, in conversation with Nosh Nalavala

Benin Ambassador Jean-Francis Regis Zinsou. Photo credit: Kamma Thordarson

From the declaration of the Brussels Programme of Action till today, do you find any change, any progress in the status of LDCs?

One might think that nothing has changed, but we live in a globalized world. There is an economic crisis, a financial crisis, an energy crisis and a food crisis. [...]

November 11, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

LLDCs Chairman calls for greater South-South Cooperation

MediaGlobal’s Nosh Nalavala interviews Ambassador Saleumxay Kommasith, Permanent Representative of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the UN and Chairman of the Group of LLDCs

Ambassador Saleumxay Kommasith.

MG: Ambassador, as the Chairperson of the LLDC Group, what is your long-term vision for the Group?

As Chairman of LLDCs I have outlined the following objectives that LLDCs need to attain:

Firstly, LLDCs should continue to profile its special development needs and problems, which now no longer limit themselves to just the [...]

October 10, 2012 | Filed under Economy,Least Developed Countries | Read More

Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries

Enkhtsetseg Ochir, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, with MediaGlobal’s Nosh Nalavala. Photo credit: Louise De Hemptinne

MediaGlobal News Bureau Chief Nosh Nalavala in conversation with Enkhtsetseg Ochir, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations

NOSH NALAVALA: When was the Think Tank established in Mongolia for the LLDCs?

ENKHTSETSEG OCHIR: In 2006 it was proposed that a Think Tank would be devoted to building the capacity of LLDCs and in providing research on [...]

September 25, 2012 | Filed under Economy,Least Developed Countries | Read More

Least Developed Countries struggle for gender equality

In an interview with MediaGlobal Bureau Chief Nosh Nalavala, Ambassador Lazarous Kaoambwe, Permanent Mission of Zambia voices his thoughts on gender parity in primary education and its long-term negative effects

MG: Often at different for a in the United Nations, the gender dimension of education in post-conflict African countries and LDCs are discussed. Of the countries that have an unbalanced ratio of primary enrollment among boys to primary enrollment among girls, 18 are African countries and 16 are LDCs. This [...]

August 6, 2012 | Filed under Africa,Society and Culture | Read More

Donating breast milk to HIV/AIDS-stricken babies in South Africa

A joint humanitarian effort delivered donor breast milk to South Africa this week.

The US-based International Breast Milk Project (IBMP), Prolacta Bioscience, and Quick International Courier in a joint humanitarian effort delivered 11,000 ounces (2,375 bottles) of donor breast milk to South Africa this week. The shipment, sent from Monrovia, California, to be apportioned between Durban and Cape Town, will be used to feed premature, sick, and orphaned infants.

The Cape Town-based non-profit, Milk Matters, distributes donor breast milk to over [...]

July 17, 2012 | Filed under Africa,Global Health | Read More

How to feed 9 billion people in 40 years

15 October 2010 [MediaGlobal]: Away from the rounds of discussions on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) along with Pavan Sukhdev, Project Leader for the Green Economy Initiative, met with UN Correspondents recently to underscore how investing in clean energy and sustainable transport to forests and environmentally-friendly forms of agriculture could help meet the MDGs.

“ How are we going to feed 9 billion [...]

October 15, 2010 | Filed under Economy,Global Health,MG Multimedia,Technology and Innovation | Read More

Small Island Developing States seek international commitment

Alliance of Small Island States’ Chairperson and Grenada’s Ambassador to the United Nations Dessima Williams in an exclusive interview with MediaGlobal’s Nosh Nalavala

9 October 2010 [MediaGlobal]:

MediaGlobal (MG): The most recent talks in Bonn showed that the 194 negotiating countries have failed to even define a common target or method for curbing greenhouse gases. Where do the negotiating countries go from here? Does Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) have a strategy for breaking this deadlock?

Dessima [...]

October 9, 2010 | Filed under MG Multimedia | Read More

The activist that would be Minister

Interviewed by Sofia Tillo in Portuguese

21 September 2010 [MEDIAGLOBAL]: Marcia Lopes is known in Brazil for her formidable communication skills. From “favela” community halls to international leadership summits, she is at the center of attention.

Lopes has dedicated herself to social action long enough to know the importance of social development and the need to eliminate hunger. Before stepping up as Minister earlier this year she had worked as social worker, as syndicate leader, as [...]

September 21, 2010 | Filed under Economy | Read More

Environment Minister of Brazil calls for reduction in deforestation in developing countries

21 September 2010 [MEDIAGLOBAL]: “Our prime climate change goal is to reduce illegal deforestation in the Amazon by as much as 40 percent,” Brazil’s Minister of Environment, Izabella Teixeira, told MediaGlobal in an exclusive interview in New York. “ And we would like to see reduction in deforestation that plagues many developing countries,” she added.

While the Copenhagen climate talks may have failed, there is one positive factor that emerged: the countries of the developed world [...]

September 21, 2010 | Filed under Americas,Earth Changes | Read More

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