It's time for the government to listen to the demands of Nazanin's family, including paying the debt we owe to Iran, and finally bring her home. And the boss of charity Amnesty International called the situation "incredibly upsetting".
He demanded the government sets out a strategy for getting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe home, and added: "We call on Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and other ministers to take the time to come out of their offices to visit Richard at his tent. Ministers need to hear first-hand how desperate this situation is. On Sunday, a Foreign Office spokesperson said: "Iran's decision to proceed with these baseless charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an appalling continuation of the cruel ordeal she is going through.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe loses Iran appeal. Nazanin husband talks to Truss about detained wife. Who is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe? In addition, the government of Brazil hosted a second N4G moment.
Honduras becomes the latest country to join the SUN Movement in , joining 60 other countries. Leaders from around the world emphasized the fundamental role of nutrition in promoting prosperity across the continent. Several sessions and side-events highlighted the importance of nutrition including:. The heads of state and government of all 55 African countries will gather to attend the 33 rd annual African Union Summit to determine policies and priorities for the Union, including investments in nutrition to address chronic hunger and malnutrition challenges.
The World Bank and IMF will hold their annual Spring Meetings to bolster awareness and advance the agenda on key issues to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity by addressing smart and timely investments in nutrition.
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Poverty matters Global development. This article is more than 8 years old. Global development is supported by. Liz Ford. Food game: how well do you know the world? Elsewhere on the site We reported on findings from Unesco and the Education for All campaign that show aid for primary schooling has dropped for the first time in more than 10 years, prompting concerns about hitting the millennium development goal on education.
Multimedia In pictures: Food for thought — global school feeding programmes Proper nutrition is vital to ensuring students are able to concentrate. What you said: some of the best reader comments Responding to questions on our live chat examining the UN high-level panel's recommendations for the future of development, Abhijit Banerjee , economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the panel, commented: On inequality our thought was that rather than addressing mechanically by setting some Gini target, which is both hard to measure and often slightly off point … it would be better to address the causes and consequences of inequality directly by focusing on groups that have [a] high chance of being excluded from their basic rights to services.
That approach was endorsed by Alex Cobham , a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, who wrote: I wouldn't support a pure Gini target either … But the more substantive point is the philosophical difference between seeing inequality as a problem only because the marginalised do not achieve some absolute human poverty criteria … or seeing the damage inequality does to societies more widely. I mean things like uniforms, bags, books, chairs and desks, balanced diet, well trained teachers, relevant educational resources to us as Africans.
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