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GLOBAL
MEASLES DEATHS DROP BY 78%, BUT RESURGENCE
LIKELY
Over 400 deaths a day is still too many
- stalled momentum puts millions more
children at risk |
| ATLANTA/GENEVA/NEW
YORK/WASHINGTON – The Measles
Initiative announced today that measles
deaths worldwide fell by 78% between
2000 and 2008, from an estimated 733
000 in 2000 to 164 000 in 2008. However,
global immunization experts warn of
a resurgence in measles deaths if vaccination
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| EMERGENCY
IN COLOMBIA FROM HEAVY RAINS |
Given the serious
rainy season emergency that is punishing
the country, and which to date has left
more than a million persons affected,
including more than half a million children,
what measures do you think should be
taken to prevent a rain emergency? What
would you suggest so that all of us
together can help and give support for
the affected populations?
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COP15
Humanitarian Day
HUMANITARIANS STRESS THE IMPACT OF CLIMATIC CHANGE
ON HUMANITY
COPENHAGEN,
15 December 2009 – Vulnerable communities
and humanitarian agencies raised their voices
with a powerful message that “Climate Change
is already affecting millions of the world’s
most vulnerable persons – we must work more
unitedly now to help them to adapt”.
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Declaration
of children, adolescents
and youths in the framework of the
IX Governors’ Meeting
Leticia,
Amazonas December 11, 2009. The IX Governors’
Meeting “For a Protective and Protected
Education”, held on December 10 and 11 in
this border department, is coming to an end with
a declaration signed by around 50 children, adolescents
and youths.
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Colombia’s
Education System
“Still doesn’t guarantee the right
to education for all”. Inspector General
of the Nation
Leticia,
Amazonas, 11 December 2009. At the installation
of the IX Meeting of Governors for Children, Adolescents
and Youth, Inspector General of the Nation Alejandro
Ordóñez Maldonado presented an evaluation
of the right to education in Colombia and the
level of progress in its education policy.
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Installation
of the IX Governors’ Summit in Leticia,
Amazonas
With
the presence of the Inspector General of the Nation,
Alejandro Ordóñez, the “IX
Summit of Governors for the Right to Protective
and Protected Education” being held this
Thursday and Friday in the city of Leticia, Amazonas
was inaugurated.
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Protective and
Protected Education,
theme of the IX Governors’ Meeting in Amazonas
Bogotá,
7 December 2009. “A protective and protected
Education for the life of the children, adolescents
and youths” is the mobilizing theme of the
IX Meeting of Governors a to be held on December
10 and 11 in the city of Leticia (Amazonas).
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Press Conference,
FACTS AND RIGHTS PRSENTS THE IX GOVERNORS’
MEETING IN AMAZONAS
Bogotá,
4 December 2009. The department of Amazonas is
the scenario of this IX Governors’ Meeting,
to be held on December 10 and 11, 2009, and whose
motivating theme will be the “Right to a
protective and protected education for life”.
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PANDI News -
Children and Adolescents in the Colombian Press
Today
(Spanish)
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