November 2010
170 posts
Americans less responsive to flood victims in... →
In the 11 weeks after torrential rains in late July caused rivers to overflow and inundate villages and farmland across 62,000 square miles of Pakistan, U.S. groups raised $48.7 million, according to…
Cholera in Haiti: Do Aid Groups Deserve Some of... →
Aid groups are scrambling to respond to the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti—and to answer questions about whether they did enough to prevent the disease, which has claimed more than 1,100 lives. Aid…
VOA | UN Estimates Cholera Could Affect 400,000... →
U.N. officials are calling for a much stronger international response to Haiti’s cholera outbreak after new estimates show the epidemic could affect as many as 400,000 people. The U.N.’s humanitarian…
Why the revolution will not be tweeted - Malcolm... →
“It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, in Foreign Policy. “Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” Western…
The Fake Taliban and Other Great Diplo-Scams |... →
The United States was just bamboozled by a con artist purporting to be a high-ranking Taliban official. Here are five other unbelievable and embarrassing historical diplomatic frauds.
Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson: 1955-2010 | Music |... →
It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, who died in his sleep yesterday, aged just 55. As a founding member of Throbbing Gristle, he was part of one of the most…
Reuters Photographer Portfolio: Akhtar Soomro →
Akhtar Soomro was born in 1965 in the Lyari neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan. He has shot assignments for local and international newspapers, magazines and stock agencies around the world. In 2009,…
Tweeting after-hours: The U.N.'s undiplomatic... →
In their short history, diplomatic blogs and tweets have too often served as little more than a modern delivery system for self-serving state propaganda, or old-fashioned press releases and policy…
Slackistan or City of Fear: Which is the real... →
It’s one of the great cliches of travel writing: flick through any city guide and you’ll most likely find your destination branded a “city of contradictions”. In most cases, of course, it does…
At the Heart of Haiti's Cholera Riots, Anger at... →
Pieces of rubble flew through the air as angry protesters marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince, holding up signs, “Down with MINUSTAH.” They were protesting against the United Nation’s…
U.N. blasts global response to Haiti cholera... →
he United Nations criticized the international response to the Haiti cholera outbreak as inadequate on Saturday, saying donors had pledged only about ten percent of the money needed to curb the…
UN worries its troops caused cholera in Haiti -... →
The mounting circumstantial evidence that U.N. peacekeepers from Nepal brought cholera to Haiti was largely dismissed by U.N. officials. Haitians who asked about it were called political or paranoid….
UN pleads for end to Haiti unrest - smh.com.au →
The top UN envoy in Haiti called for an end to protests against UN peacekeepers whom Haitians blame for importing a cholera epidemic that has now claimed nearly 1,200 lives. Demonstrators must stop…
Crisis Guide: Pakistan - Council on Foreign... →
A powerful interactive guide to the internal and external forces that shape modern day Pakistan from the Council on Foreign Relations. It also examines its evolution since partition in 1947 and its…
“Winning the trust of all parties in a conflict and gaining access to the...”
– Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director, on the politicization of aid during the response to Pakistan’s floods. (via doctorswithoutborders)
10 Human Trafficking Films to Watch →
Film, as a medium, is unique in its power to change us, educate us, and most of all, open our minds and eyes to other worlds - to the layers of life that surround us, including that of our own. From End Human Trafficking on Change.org, one of the most quickly expanding site out there for positive change in the world, comes a list of 10 human trafficking films to watch:
10 Human Trafficking...
