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New UK humanitarian support for Niger and Chad
12 July 2010
Hundreds of thousands of people in Niger and Chad will benefit from specific support to prevent the threat of imminent starvation, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced today.
How much energy are we using?
DFID has started publishing real-time information on energy and water use in its London headquarters building.
Access to Medicine Index
Access to medicine is a basic right, yet each year millions of people die due to preventable and treatable diseases
World Population Day
11 July 2010
The Secretary of State statement on World Population Day
Baroness Amos appointed new Head of UN OCHA
09 July 2010
Baroness Amos appointed new Head of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Praise for UK efforts to reduce poverty
OECD's Development Assistance Committee issues a report on UK’s development assistance
'I'm in love with the forest now - I want to protect it'
08 July 2010
From illegal loggers to community rangers in Indonesia
Your freedom
06 July 2010
The government has launched the Your Freedom website to allow as many people in the UK as possible to put forward their ideas on what laws and regulations should be done away with.
Postcard from the field: South Africa
In his last instalment Peter Kerby takes a look at what the World Cup will mean for South Africa beyond the final whistle
Mitchell hails new, powerful agency for women
05 July 2010
The Government today welcomed a new era for women in developing countries as UN members agreed details of a new UN agency for women and gender issues.
Cost-saving measures to boost help for world's poor
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced further cash-saving measures as part of an ongoing drive to get value for money out of the Government’s aid budget.
Young people hear why education beats poverty
30 June 2010
Stephen O’Brien yesterday urged young people to join the global challenge to get 72 million children from developing countries into school.
Praise for school's links with Sri Lanka and Pakistan
29 June 2010
Andrew Mitchell today met with children from a Keighley school to find out about their educational partnership with schools in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
28 June 2010
England may have been knocked out, but Peter Kerby finds success elsewhere in South Africa
Andrew Mitchell delivers first overseas speech in Washington
26 June 2010
Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell's first overseas speech given at Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC
Mineral deposits can help lift Afghanistan out of poverty
25 June 2010
Deposits of minerals in Afghanistan such as iron, copper, gold, silver, platinum, as well as oil and natural gas, have the potential to help lift the country out of poverty.
DFID Overseas Territories Department's relocation to East Kilbride
24 June 2010
DFID is relocating its Overseas Territories Department (OTD) to its other Headquarter site in East Kilbride, Scotland.
'Enterprise can fight global poverty'
23 June 2010
The private sector needs to change its relationship with the world’s poorest people, International Development Minister Alan Duncan said today
DFID helps Indonesia move toward oil and gas transparency
Government of Indonesia adopts Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
The politics of poverty
Citizens, States and Elites in development: Lessons from DFID-funded research