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UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon launches A Better Place

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon introduces "A Better Place", premiered by the MDG Achievement Fund and Playing for Change on International Human Rights Day (2102).
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Panama: Indigenous communities join to protect their water

Ninety-one per cent of the indigenous population of Panama's remote Ngäbe-Buglé Region suffers from extreme poverty, including lack of access to safe water and sanitation.
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Serbia: Promoting tourism to fight poverty

In spite of a decade of economic growth and a halving of its poverty rate, Serbia continues to experience significant disparities in development.
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Building futures in Turkey

The number of Turkish people living in poverty has plunged from 30% to 3.7% in just eight years, making Turkey one of the success stories of the 2013 Human Development Report.
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Colombia: Violence against women is everyone's business

Up to 60 % of women around the world experience some form of physical or sexual abuse during their life.
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Colombia: Preventing violence against women

Two women die every day in Colombia simply because they are women. The MDG-F worked to eliminate gender-based violence in Colombia through measures to prevent, detect, legislate against ...
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Colombia: Eliminating female genital mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects 140 million girls and women worldwide.
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