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Mothers on the Margins news

20/10/2011- UNICEF and partners push for scaling up of the community-based health workforce for emergencies

4/10/2011- EGOV: Mothers on the Margins – A Campaign By Health Poverty Action

2/10/2011- MORNING STAR: Giving mothers a first chance

20/09/2011- THE LANCET: Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis

30/08/2011- WHO NEWS:Newborn deaths decrease but account for higher share of global child deaths

6/07/2011- EUROPA: Safe Motherhood in Hargeisa – Health Poverty Action’s “extraordinary accomplishment”

23/06/2011- IRIN: Health Poverty Action joins others to protest Nestlé’s infant formula advertising

25/01/2011- REALITY CHECK: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula: A comprehensive approach to a long-ignored problem

16/09/2010- NEW INTERNATIONALIST Health Poverty Action- Indigenous mothers-to-be: not mothers enough?

12/04/2010- THE LANCET: Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980—2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5


Trading with Lives news

9/02/2011- TECH DIRT: ’War’ on fake drugs really an excuse to boost big pharma; putting the poor at risk

22/01/2011- NETINDIAN: The EU/India Free Trade Agreement likely to be agreed in April 2011

13/01/2011- AMERICAN CHRONICLE: India must resist European pressure to trade away health

1/01/2011- SECURINGPHARMA: Generic substitution raises counterfeit medicine fears, says survey

10/12/2010- UNRIC EUROPE India trade pact threatens medicines for millions of poor – UN expert


Robin Hood Tax news

18/11/2011- ROBIN HOOD TAX: Government is guilty of misleading the UK public over Robin Hood Tax

16/11/2011- HUFFINGTON POST: ‘Osborne Shows Us He is on the Side of the Sheriff of Nottingham’

4/11/2011- PRWATCH: Robin Hood Tax Gains Ground at the G-20

4/11/2011- HUFFINGTON POST: Robin Hood Tax Can Still be Agreed at the G20 by Bill Nighy

3/11/2011- REUTERS: Sarkozy may make headway at G20 on transaction tax push

3/11/2011- GUARDIAN: G20: Protesters go on the march in France – in pictures

1/11/2011- TELEGRAPH: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams calls for new tax on bankers

28/09/2011- GUARDIAN: A Robin Hood tax could turn the banks from villains to heroes by Bill Nighy



Last modified: 25/11/2011