(New York) - A UN review of Uzbekistan's human rights record on March 11 and 12, 2010, is a rare opportunity to highlight the government's abysmal record and to urge specific steps to end abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. The government's persecution of human rights defenders, rampant torture and ill-treatment, and religious persecution top the list of concerns, Human Rights Watch said.
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The results of 6 national roundtable discussions organized in 2008 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine as well as a regional conference in Turkey in December 2008 are reflected in the policy note published by UNDP Office in Bratislava - Enhancing womenâs politi......
JOHANNESBURG, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - Mozambique's National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) has raised the flood alert level to "red" and some 130,000 people living along three main rivers in central Mozambique are at risk of possible floods and need to be moved...
Nomadic pastoralism boosts African economies and protects livestock from drought. So why is it under threat? Ced Hesse explains.Mobile-livestock keeping, or pastoralism, plays a critical role in the economic prosperity of Africa’s drylands. Across east and west Africa, an estimated 50 million livestock producers support their families, their communities, and a massive meat, skins and hides industry based on animals that are fed solely on natural dryland pastures. Where other land-use systems are failing in the face of global climate change, mobile-livestock keeping is generating huge national and regional economic benefits.
Today’s pastoralists download the latest market prices for cattle on their mobile phones, use cheap Chinese motorbikes to reach distant herds or lost...
The EU's new commissioner for climate action wants Europe to continue leading global negotiations and pursue deeper emission cuts, even if the current pledge of 20% reductions by 2020 was not matched by other developed...
From IRIN, a story on the struggle of being HIV-positive and hungry while living in Kenya's slums. Not only so the sick have to keep themselves well, but they also have to fight to keep themselves fed. Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease - but hunger."When I went for the results that informed me that I had TB, I was very hungry; I'd had no breakfast and lunch and could barely walk," she told IRIN/PlusNews. "I had to be supported and put in a wheelchair to collect the drugs."Often I go without food and during such times I feel dizzy and nauseous after swallowing the [TB and HIV] drugs," the formerly prosperous carpenter added. "Putting...
DAKAR, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - It costs more to vaccinate a child in Chad against polio - almost 70 US cents per child - than in any other country in the world at risk of polio outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization...
KABUL, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - The refugee cards of about 1.7 million Afghans in Pakistan will be extended until December 2012 and the Afghan government will have to enhance its reintegration services, according to a tripartite meeting of Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UN Refugee Agency...
YANGON, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - In Myanmar, where abortions are illegal, complications arising from unsafe terminations are the third leading cause of maternal deaths after post-partum haemorrhage and eclampsia, according to the government's 2006-2011 National Health...
ISIOLO-NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - At least 10,000 people in Kenya have been displaced by flooding, mainly in the north, which has prompted fears of an outbreak of waterborne diseases. Hundreds of heads of livestock have drowned or gone missing and dozens of houses and business stalls are...
TANOUT, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - "Empty" increasingly describes the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, are...
Geneva/Abuja (ICRC) – In the wake of last Sunday's violent attacks south of Jos, in northern Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross Society is distributing food and water to about 5,000 displaced people (IDPs) who have taken refuge in various police stations in the area and to some 300 detainees....
This is a joint post with Lauren Young.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been getting negative press about the relief efforts after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Perhaps worst is a scathing report from Refugees International accusing the UN of ineffectual leadership, missing coordination, and weak communication while an estimated 1.2 million Haitians remain displaced....
Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 10, no. 1 (2010) [contents]- Special issue on "Conflict prevention and development co-operation in Africa." Includes a personal reflection by Sadako Ogata, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees.Development in Practice, vol. 20, no. 2 (2010) [contents]- Mix of articles.Gender and Education, vol. 22,no. 2 (2010 ) [contents]- Includes a special section on "Forced migration, gender and education."Journal of Conflict and Security Law, vol. 14, no. 3 (Winter 2009) [contents]- Articles in this issue examine the interplay between international humanitarian law and human rights law.Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 28, no. 1 (March 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles.Tagged...
A transferred wall painting from Janakpur.
As Nick Kristof and others have noted, women are more inclined than men are to spend their money on health care, food, and education for their families and communities. Overall, they invest more in long-term plans than in short term gratification. But what’s a woman to do when she lacks the education, skills, or start-up capital necessary to begin her own business? How can she earn an income when she does not know where to start? For a group of women in Janakpur, Nepal, the answer had been passed down for generations.
For centuries, the Maithil women of southern Nepal have painted elaborate traditional designs on the mud walls of their houses and compounds to celebrate weddings, festivals, and religious celebrations. The works of art create...
The lightweight metal is enjoying a boom in interest because of its critical role in hybrid and electric car...
Yasmina Zaidman is Director of Communications at Acumen Fund. She recently returned from vacation in the Dominican Republic, where she personally experienced the importance of access to emergency medical care.
The hospital in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, where Yasmina and her son were fortunate enough to receive treatment.
I try not to think too much about work when I’m on vacation, but when I found myself in the back of an ambulance in the Dominican Republic this past week, I couldn’t help but think about Acumen Fund’s work on improving access to emergency care. I was holding my 17-month old baby in my arms as he vomited into a bed pan, while two young medics stood ready to check his vitals. He had acquired an acute bacterial infection, we later learned, that was leading to...
Founded by Aneto Okonkwo: MyRadeo is a microblogging service for music. It helps you share and discover songs with your friends. "It's like Twitter for songs or Pandora if your friends pick the songs for you"Speaking during a Tech Masai interview Aneto stated:I initially started using it just with my friends, and now many of their friends use it regularly which is very encouraging. Its been exciting to take a simple idea and evolve it over time based on feedback and the way people use it. In the next few months, we plan to improve our integration with Facebook, expand the mobile experience, and eventually even launch a desktop version to integrate with iTunes...[continue...
Militants attacked World Vision offices in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday. The attack killed six Pakistanis who work for the international aid organization. The Taliban, Al-Qaida and other extremest groups have strongholds in northwest Pakistan. Continued attacks on humanitarians working there have made it hard to accomplish any work to improve Pakistanis lives. From The Seattle Times, we find this summary of the attack.The attack targeted World Vision, a large Christian humanitarian group helping survivors of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Mansehra district, which killed about 80,000 people.The dead in Wednesday's attack, all Pakistanis, included two women, said police official Mohammad Sabir.Seven World Vision employees were hospitalized and one was missing, according to information...
NAKIVALE, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - With at least 67,000 refugees in southwest Uganda, the government and aid workers are still battling inadequate resources in what a UN official described as a "silent emergency"....
As China and India, among the largest sources of greenhouse-gas emissions, gave approval Tuesday to the Copenhagen Accord, the European Union sought to regain the initiative on global climate...
Fragile states are at the top of the policy and political agenda for donors, and at the heart of the UK electoral debates on the future of international development. In its 2009 White Paper, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) commits to substantially increase bilateral aid to fragile states; in their Green Paper, the Conservatives define conflict as a development issue and peace and stability as pre-requisite of development. Whoever wins the UK elections in May, engaging...(read more)...
Authored by: Manuel BuenoEarly childhood development (ECD) is a term used to describe the personal growth of a child until the age of 6. During this period the brain of a child continues to develop and form neural connections – a process that started during the pregnancy. Adequate nutrition, cognitive stimulation and care strongly influences the extent to which a child’s health may develop to their fullest potential, as well as her cognitive and social and emotional abilities (Young, 2002).
Unfortunately, in many low-income countries, poverty also begins at birth. Children from low-income families are much more likely to be malnourished, live under unhygienic circumstances and receive low levels of education. A shortfall in early childhood development will have irreversible...
GAZA CITY, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - A half-finished two-story building in central Gaza City is one of the few places providing support to amputees, most of them civilian victims of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, as they try and come to terms with their...
BOSASSO, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - Abdullahi Aden Ali, 32, arrived in Bosasso, commercial capital of the autonomous region of Puntland, 10 years ago from southern Somalia. His aim, like that of thousands of young Somalis, was to go to Yemen and on to Saudi Arabia. He first fled his home town of Baidao for the capital, Mogadishu, but was again forced out when fighting between warlords...
(New York) - The Uzbek authorities should thoroughly investigate and prosecute the men who violently attacked Dmitrii Tikhonov, a human rights activist and member of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(New York) - Philippine authorities should act swiftly to protect eyewitnesses to the November 2009 massacre of at least 57 people in Maguindanao province on Mindanao, and to protect their families as well, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(New York) - The Yemeni government's acknowledgment that an airstrike killed more than 42 civilians in December 2009 is a stark reminder of the need for careful targeting when using such counterterrorism measures, Human Rights Watch said today.
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(Beirut) - The Lebanese government should investigate the seizure of a human rights lawyer's passport by General Security, a group of 16 Lebanese and international human rights organizations said today.
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