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Food, food everywhere... yet 1 billion face hunger
5,000 child deaths scheduled for G8 opening
Financial industry receives 9 times more in 1 year than poor countries in 49
Toll on developing countries becomes clearer
Global hunger crisis key Irish priority - Minister
Aid donors neglect chronic diseases
Africa to grant new rights in landmark convention
2008 second deadliest for disasters
Africa 3.0
Crimes against children: Zero convictions in India
Vitamin A deficiency linked to malaria
"Ignored" Somalia emergency repeatedly flagged
Somalia experiences "worst fighting" in years
Tanzania and Mozambique manage boom wisely
Media's role in development insufficiently understood or prioritised - report

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Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund News

Upcoming Deadlines: Standard Grant Round II: 30 September 2009 5pm

NEWS: Fund recipient Kim Haughton wins a 2008 Press Photographers Association of Ireland AIB Photojournalism Award.

Fatima Sultan with malnourished Fetia Khalid, thirteen months-old, weighing 4.5kg, at the Dosha Clinic which is run by Concern in Shashego Woreda, Southern Ethiopia. Failure of the first rains in parts of Ethiopia, led to food shortages in many areas in 2008

NEW in the archive: Videos by 2008 TV Seed recipients and work by 2008 Standard Grant recipients.

2007 recipients of the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund

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2008 Applicant Workshop Report now up
Connect-World’s Lorraine Whitty has been interviewed about the Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund (Listen),
Louise Williams' EU El Dorado shortlisted for One World Media Awards
Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund in the Irish Journalist (04/08)

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	Simon Cumbers Media Challenge Fund recipient Kim Haughton wins a 2008 Press Photographers Association of Ireland AIB Photojournalism Award. Appeal to the People of Africa by Stephen Stewart won the Connect-World Multi-media Award at the 2009 Digital Media Awards


	June 30 TANZANIA - Tanzanian refugee camp due to close: 36,000 Burundian refugees face uncertain future NEW YORK - Roxana Saberi, a reporter formerly held in Iran, joins the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran organised by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International-USA ABUJA - Amnesty International releases report on human rights in the Niger Delta ACCRA - World Bank will decide whether to give Ghana a $300 million loan to help stabilise its economy BRUSSELS - *Media briefing on the forthcoming World Climate Conference 3 (WCC 3) that will take place in Geneva from 31 August to 4 September More**


	Global hunger crisis key Irish priority - Minister (June 2009) Africa to grant new rights in landmark convention (June 2009) 2008 second deadliest for disasters (June 2009) Cluster bomb treaty: 8 down, 22 to go (June 2009) Campaign highlights signatories failure to ratify 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (June 2009) Irish Senate debate reveals cross-party support for aid programme (June 2009) Robinson condemns "illegal" imprisonment and trial of fellow Elder, Aung San Suu Kyi (May 2009) Development NGOs call for a vote for justice (May 2009) Aid in a crisis: UK bucks trend, Ireland does not (May 2009) "Ireland is a champion in making aid more effective" - OECD (May 2009) Irish Aid budget cuts jeopardise lives, 2012 target - NGOs (April 2009) Irish aid cuts: "if we stop funding this programme, people will die" (April 2009) Rare window of opportunity in the Congo - Mary Robinson (April 2009) Ireland considers female genital mutilation ban (March 2009) Ireland may be the safest place to have a baby, Niger the most dangerous (February 2009) Ireland's commitment to development (December 08) Governance improving in Irish Aid program countries (October 08)

10 million child deaths "easy and inexpensive to prevent" - IMF

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