Jean Pierre Nshimyimana initiator of the LifeEngine Clean Water Project, is developing a business that will provide clean water and green energy technologies and environmental engineering consultancy to provide superior services, designs, knowledge, and green energy solutions to community-based initiatives in Rwanda-LegatumJean Pierre Speaks at Harvard from Sean Clauson on...
KABUL, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - The insurgents in Afghanistan have shown interest in negotiating with the UN and aid agencies on humanitarian access and aid distributions, according to a purported Taliban...
(New York) – Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign relations chief, should raise human rights concerns with Syrian officials during her visit next week and seek specific commitments to improve their record, Human Rights Watch said today.
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American Journal of Bioethics, vol. 10, no. 2 (2010) [contents]- Includes the target article, "Returning to History: The Ethics of Researching Asylum Seeker Health in Australia," along with five peer commentaries that discuss the ethics of refugee and asylum seeker research.Disasters, vol. 34, no. 2 (April 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles including "Financing of internal displacement: excerpts from the Sri Lankan experience."International Migration, vol. 48, no. 2 (April 2010) [contents]- Mix of articles, with several focusing on integration and social networks.Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, vol. 8, no. 1 (2010) [contents]- Mix of articles, including "From Persecution to Destitution: A Snapshot of Asylum Seekers' Housing and Settlement Experiences in Canada and the United...
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Reviving an economic base is one of the first priorities in post-conflict reconstruction. When large companies have suffered too great loses to resume operations quickly, and while foreign investors may still be wary of the security situation, local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often the first signs economic rebirth. Increasingly, women are joining men in creating their own SME ventures, contributing both to supporting their own households and to their countries’ recovery. But much remains to be done to empower those women: analysis of emergency and post-conflict spending patterns done by the UN Development Fund for Women shows that just 2 percent of post-conflict budgets target women’s empowerment or gender equality.
The presence of women entrepreneurs in...
The ICRC continues to press for the release of staff member Gauthier Lefèvre, abducted in West Darfur in October. Owing to his kidnapping, ICRC activities have been curtailed in Darfur, but elsewhere in Sudan they continue normally....
Fear of tsunamis and aftershocks prompted many to flee the coast of southern and central Chile after the recent earthquake. Ten days on, many victims are living in improvised camps....
Researchers at I.B.M. and Stanford University said they had discovered a new way to make plastics that can be continuously recycled or developed for novel uses in health care and...
CARACAS, Mar 10 (IPS) - Although most of the governments in Latin America
today are described as progressive, abortion is only legal in one
country, while in five countries it is banned under all
circumstances, even when the mother's life is at......
MONTEVIDEO, Mar 10 (IPS) - "Nature is wise, and if we take the time to
observe it, we can learn so much" is the underlying
philosophy of a number of innovative programmes being carried out
in Uruguayan schools that are using gardens as a teaching
resource, explained Edith Moraes, director of the national
Primary Education...
DAR-ES-SALAAM, Mar 10 (IPS) - Pregnancy is the leading cause of dropouts for
school girls in Tanzania.
And a national law forbidding young
mothers to return to school after giving birth did not make it
any easier for them to continue their education....
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS/TerraViva) - Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of
discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia
and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success
stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties
even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and
wrongly...
Big business is now free to blitz the airwaves to attack politicians who support action against climate change, which could smother messages from...
A climate scientist and a business leader join forces to assert the validity of climate science, and recommend the adoption of a market-based cap-and-trade...
The Botswana Red Cross Society in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies launched a long term, cross border initiative to support chronically vulnerable people living along the Zambezi River basin in seven countries, namely Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its theme "Early warning, early action" speaks of...
A conference was held in Miami to bring together private companies to drum up investment interest in Haiti. Business leaders say they need a master plan from the Haitian government before they begin to estimate costs. A wide range of businesses were represented at the conference including security, shelter and transportation. From this Reuters article that we found at Canada.com, writer Pascal Fletcher describes the conference. Private sector firms that focus on post-conflict or disaster relief operations gathered at a meeting in Miami this week to consider the business opportunities offered by Haiti's recovery from the Jan. 12 quake that devastated the capital Port-au-Prince and surrounding towns.With Haiti's government saying up to 300,000 people may have died, some economists are...
From the Voice of America, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates testified on Capital Hill today about global health. There was a different kind of health care debate Wednesday on Capitol Hill. The topic was how the United States can best build on the success of its global efforts to combat AIDS and malaria. Members of Congress received advice from two leaders in global health - a former U.S. president and a technology tycoon.Bill Clinton and Bill Gates sat side-by-side at a witness table before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Their goal: to convince Congress to spend more to fight disease and provide basic medical services in some of the poorest countries around the world.Former President Clinton called it a "moral imperative," and a foreign policy priority. "This is not complicated," he...
Introducing our new guest blogging series called "Guest Voices." To inaugurate our series we turn to Jane Guinn, who writes for Sedona Cyber Link. Jane recently took a trip to Myanmar, the country that is ruled by an oppressive military regime. The military government was so oppressive that it prevented humanitarian aid from reaching it's people after Cyclone Nargis. Jane was thinking about how much better life in Myanmar if some bottom of the pyramid opportunities were allowed into the country. On my recent trip to Myanmar (Burma) I took the time to read several important books analyzing the root causes of the economic crisis of 2008. As I was floating up the Irrawaddy, one of the major rivers in Asia flowing from the Himalayas, I reflected on the way of life of the peasants living...
(New York) - The Azerbaijani government should release two bloggers who have been detained since July 2009 as the result of a staged fight designed to frame them, Human Rights Watch said today. The bloggers, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, lost their appeal against their conviction today.
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In this Working Paper, the authors suggest that despite recent calls for increased aid to poor countries by the international community, there may be...
Savings and credit cooperatives provide financial services to millions, including poor and low-income people in many countries. They are user-owned financial...
This paper aims to focus on the three most relevant and most controversial issues at the end of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations - services, agriculture...
This paper examines a rising tide of expectations faced by business from a range of stakeholders on the issue of business and human rights. The authors...
This document is the executive summary of a study which aims to understand the demand for and supply of the remittance services for migrant workers in...
This report evaluates the impact of changes in the Chinese population age structures on its economy, both in the past two decades and in the near future.Demographically,...
This policy brief attempts to answer three interlinked questions regarding corruption within tax administration systems. It asks: How can corruption effectively...
This paper considers the inevitable shift of Cuba from a Marxist to a market-oriented economy. It examines the paths towards reform experienced by former...
As part of a series of briefing notes on arms control, this note brings together a number of case studies and stories of the impact of arms trade on people...
This briefing paper argues that the availability of trade-related assistance is not enough to fulfil the development dimension of the Doha Work Programme....
This report considers the ecological, economic and livelihoods impact of the large quantities of non target fish (bycatch) caught and discarded by EU...