Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Aug 3, 2008	Water, water nowhere: Social marketing and the quest for access to clean water
It’s one of the most essential things to a healthy life and taken for granted by those who have it. Lack of access to clean water plagues affected people with completely preventable diseases. Argentina is the first developing country that I have lived in that has had water that you can...... [view]

Posted By:  vanessamason Posted On:  Jul 17, 2008	Making vaccines more accessible
flickr image courtesy of phitar While at a conference for my job last year, I saw a small anti-vaccine protest in front of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. The protesters were there claiming that one of the components in vaccines, mercury thimerosal, causes autism, an...... [view]

Posted By:  kurshauna Posted On:  Jun 6, 2008	UDHR60
Access to Health By: Sheridy Leslie, Health and Wellness Editor How does one determine who should have access to health, and for how long, and at what cost? These are some of the questions that arise when facing the growing international crisis, access to health. What do we mean by...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Oct 31, 2007	Clean and safe drinking water as a universal right
During his visit to India, prince Willem Alexander recently delivered a speech during Seminar ‘Water and Microfinance’ in New Delhi. At the same time, our new Dutch Youth Representative to the United Nations, Wouter Thiebou , is getting clean and safe drinking water on the...... [view]

Posted By:  Avnish Posted On:  Aug 13, 2007	Stakeholders call for promoting greater access to HIV/AIDS
Stakeholders call for promoting greater access to HIV/AIDSrelated services http://www.kanglaonline.com/index.php?template=headline&newsid=38868&typeid=1&Idoc_Session=4e35baf3cdaf9b443ea6520d075612edThe Imphal Free Press 10 August 2007 Bishnupur, Aug 9: As part of the campaign...... [view]

Highly affected, rarely considered - Access to Technology

Submitted By:   mfurdyk Author Name:  Oxfam Published:  2003-01-01

Description:   The first step in the Campaign was the Youth Commission into Globalisation - an inquiry into the impacts of globalisation on young people. The Commission unearthed a number of emerging issues, concerns and policy priorities of youth in the face of globalisation. The Youth Commission findings are now available in the report "Highly Affected, Rarely Considered" which outlines the way globisation affects young people and their communities. Written by young people from all around the world, the report offers recommendations for action in order to maximise positive opportunities and minimise and negative impacts of globalisation.   [view]