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Videos
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Pakistani Girls’ Schooling Activist Survives Attack and Speaks. Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl shot and wounded by the Taliban in Pakistan after campaigning for women’s rights and girls’ education, says she has been given a “second life.” She is 15 years old. (MDGs 2 and 3, BBC, 2013)
UN MDGs We Can End Poverty Videos
- Men’s Partnership in Maternal Health - UNFPA in Jordan
- Free primary education: A stepping stone towards a better future for children in Liberia
- Repairing Dignity in Bangladesh
- Tackling maternal mortality in India’s Orissa state
- Making Motherhood Safer - UNFPA in Laos
- Measles immunization campaign wraps up in Zimbabwe
- Reducing the dangers of pregnancy in Sierra Leone
- Viet Nam: Reproductive Health Services
- Acheiving Millennium Development Goals in China
- Educational opportunities for working girls in Benin
- Rural outreach on health and human rights in Senegal
- Saving Haiti’s Mothers
- Free primary school becoming a reality in Swaziland
- Girls’ rights in the spotlight as key to development
- Supporting every child’s right to education in Syria
- Peace Dividend for Nepali women - Health camps deliver care in former conflict zone
- Fighting malnutrition in Benin
Innovation in Marketing the Toilet in Cambodia. Sanitation Marketing Pilot Project, that is being implemented by the International NGO IDE (www.ideorg.org) in Cambodia. Designing and selling affordable toilets. (MDGs 1 and 7, 2013, 9 min.)
Creating a Revolution in How We Think about Poverty: Helping 12 Million People. iDE founder Paul Polak discusses his 12 steps for effective problem solving to end global poverty. (MDG 1-8, 8 min.)
Understanding What It’s Like for Somebody Else: Innovation in Household Water. US University design students look at how to design household water systems in an informal settlement in Chile. (MDG 1, 6-8, 2 min.)
Watch Examples of the MDGs at Work!
Meet Netta Ophir with Bridges to Prosperity
Engineers Without Borders - USA
Appropriate Technology Gains Ground in Developing Countries
The Millennium Development Goals
Additional Web Resources
TED’s UN Development Program Introduction to the MDGs
Articles
10 Homebuilt Tech Tools for the Developing World
It’s Time to Say Goodbye to e-Waste: Why Our Gadgets are Toxic to Developing Nations
Abstracts
SCHOOL: Diminishing the Digital Divide
Start with a Girl: A New Agenda for Global Health
Water Woes: Almost 1 Billion People Don’t Have Clean Water, a Report Finds
