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Fund the Fund – now!
Excuse me for sounding like a broken record regarding the Global Fund (Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM))!
My updates from the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) dwelt on this issue and here is some more; it’s just that it is a serious issue, literally a matter… Read more »
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Working against injustice in Bangladesh
Over the last few years VSO in Bangladesh has been working for the decentralisation of local government, to make it more effective for marginalised and poor people in rural areas.
A few weeks ago, I helped run a seminar – ‘Decentralisation of local government: the Bangladesh context’ – at the South Asia Social Forum in… Read more »
CIVICUS day 3 – Volunteerism and citizen participation
On the final day the of the CIVICUS conference we explored global decision-making and how we can bring civil society and citizens’ voices from the margins to the centre (especially with social media).
VSO and UN Volunteers along with CIVICUS, hosted a very successful workshop to show how volunteerism… Read more »
Learnings from the UN High Level Meeting in New York
“I was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (Northern Uganda) when I was a young girl. When I managed to escape and return home after two and a half years, it was discovered I was HIV positive. That time, there were no free ARVs [antiretroviral drugs] and being HIV positive was like a death… Read more »
To celebrate or to be concerned at the High Level Meeting?
As one of the many NGO activists attending the UN High Level Meeting in New York, it was both with a sense of expectation and hope that I listened to the key speeches delivered at the opening plenary session today morning.
The upstairs auditorium of the Plenary Hall was packed to capacity by civil society… Read more »
