The United Nations Millennium Campaign, FEMNET and OXFAM GB will present a series of global conversations broadcast live on Facebook at 8:00 am from March 3 to March 5, to discuss the status of the promises world leaders have made to women in the Millennium Development Goals. Gender activists will connect over Skype with African citizens in real time to discuss gender empowerment, decent work and maternal health from the sidelines of the Commission on the Status of Women being held at the United Nations in New York this week. The conversations can be viewed on www.facebook.com/mcampaign.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has set up a high-level advisory panel to mobilize funding to help developing nations battle climate change. The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, is aimed "to mobilize the resources for climate change pledged at the recent climate change conference in Copenhagen," Ban told reporters.

World Trade Organisation, Geneva

Although the trade and human rights communities distrust each other, “human rights and trade rules, including WTO rules, are based on the same values: individual freedom and responsibility, non-discrimination, rule of law, and welfare through peaceful cooperation among individuals,” WTO Director General Pascal Lamy told a colloquium on human rights in the global economy in Geneva on 13 January 2010.

Food or education? Public spending choices are never easy.

But in Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, the choices are particularly stark. The government has made "food security" - which means making sure people have enough to eat - the top priority for government spending. This article, written for the BBC, explains how the Malawian government has chosen to provide food, a choice which is difficult and bold for a developing country with financial constraints.