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	March 13, 2013 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Food-security strategies must involve women, De Schutter says The empowerment of women can be enabled by adjusting food-security and anti-poverty programs, writes Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food. "Food security and anti-poverty strategies must be transformative and make the redistribution of roles between women and men a priority. This is the only way to make sure that the social investment intended to sustain the poor does not also sustain the gender divisions that characterise poverty and keep it locked in place," De Schutter argues. 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The report, Syria's Children: A Lost Generation is a horrid reminder of the basic fact of most war: children suffer first, and suffer the most." UN Dispatch My World campaign seeks votes on post-MDG aims The United Nations is gathering votes from the global community on post-2015 development goals via its My World survey. Participants pick six of 16 issues that need to be addressed following the Millennium Development Goals. Results thus far show education is the leading concern, followed by effective government and health care. 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He expects a trend toward these simple goals, which he argues "[a]re now unshakeably central to the post-2015 agreement." The Guardian (London)/Poverty Matters blog (3/12)      Other News Somaliland launches polio-immunization effort Sabahi (U.S. Africa Command)/Sabahi (3/12)      UNICEF calls for end to polio by 2018 ABC (Australia) (3/13)      Taliban halt distribution of polio drops in Afghan province The Guardian (London) (3/12)      Addressing the causes of violence against women International Women's Day brought the spotlight on ending violence against women and girls, Haley Edwards writes, and efforts to eradicate violence must address underlying causes. UN Women chief Michele Bachelet says, "[I] realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes." 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