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  • UK hails ‘unprecedented’ summit plan commitment to save 16 million women and children

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the UK Government has shifted its development focus to put women and children at the heart of its policies.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UN Millennium Development Goals Summit: speech by the Deputy Prime Minister

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's speech at the UN General Assembly meeting on Millennium Development Goals.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Partnership to support countries’ maternal health plans

    A groundbreaking international partnership to cut mother and child deaths in the developing world was announced by Andrew Mitchell today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Nick Clegg addresses the UN General Assembly

    Speech by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg at the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK to lead global efforts to combat malaria

    The UK will help halve the number of deaths caused by malaria in at least ten African countries by 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will announce today.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK hails plan to save 16 million women and children

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today confirmed that the UK would double the number of maternal, newborn and children’s lives saved by 2015.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's speech to the UN General Assembly

    Speech by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to the UN General Assembly about reaching the Millennium Development Goals.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • World leaders meet for Millennium Development Goals Summit

    The UK is prioritising maternal and child health at the Millennium Goals Development Summit.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Research programme to tackle malnutrition

    New research programme to address evidence gaps on cost effective solutions to chronic malnutrition

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Deputy PM heads to Millennium Development Goals Summit

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has vowed to tell world leaders to "step up to the plate" and deliver on promises to boost aid for the developing world.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Market women secure a decent trade in Ghana

    A UK aid funded scheme helps women in a Ghanaian market organise fair taxation

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  • Growth week: Tackling the hardest questions

    Growth Week will bring together leading academics and policy makers from both the north and the south to discuss key growth issues facing developing countries.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Others must follow UK’s lead at summit

    Millions of lives across the world could be transformed by achieving the MDGs to tackle global poverty, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said today in New York.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • After the floods: returning home in northern Pakistan

    How UKaid funded relief packages have helped families move back to their villages

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  • Sudan: NGO Day of Action

    Joint Statement by Stephen O’Brien MP and Henry Bellingham MP

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Chief Financial Officer appointed on Turks & Caicos Islands

    Caroline Gardner, Deputy Auditor General for Audit Scotland is appointed new chief financial officer to the Turks and Caicos Islands Government.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • British health workers save lives in developing countries

    International Development Secretary and Cardinal Turkson hear how British health workers play a crucial role in reducing maternal and child deaths in the world’s poorest countries.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • UK to increase aid money spent on conflict countries

    The Government is set to increase the amount of aid it provides to fragile and conflict-ridden countries. This will boost the fight against extreme poverty and also strengthen DFID’s contribution to national security.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Development in a conflicted world

    Speech by International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell at the Royal College of Defence Studies on 16 September 2010.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Britain's values in a networked world

    In the third of four speeches made by the Foreign Secretary on the Government's foreign policy, the Foreign Secretary said that it is not in our character as a nation to have a foreign policy without a conscience, and ne…

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government