April 2010
55 posts
The Road to the Horizon: Suicide bombers going on... →
Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a three-day strike on Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so…
War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern... →
Now comes a book from the Dutch writer and journalist Linda Polman that shines a light on the multibillion dollar juggernaut that is today’s global humanitarian aid network. War Games: The Story of…
Does humanitarian aid prolong wars? | The Observer... →
Linda Polman believes the business of international aid - from Ethiopia to Rwanda to Afghanistan – is only helping gangsters and fighters, while innocent victims suffer on
BBC World Service Trust - Left in the dark: The... →
When crisis or disaster strikes, people need help. They need, shelter, food, water and safety. They need these things rapidly and effectively. This policy briefing argues that people need information…
Joe Rosenthal & Iwo Jima: The Story behind the... →
Fifty years ago this month, a young Associated Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal shot the most memorable photograph of World War II, a simple, stirring image of five Marines and one Navy…
BBC News - The virginity industry →
Young Arab women wait in an upmarket medical clinic for an operation that will not only change their lives, but quite possibly save it. Yet the operation is a matter of choice and not necessity. It…
Reuters AlertNet - 100 terrific twitter feeds for... →
Twitter has increasingly been used to spread awareness about humanitarian issues and to raise funds to help people affected by disasters. But it can be hard to find the right feeds in the flood of…
Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - Death by... →
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military…
The Voice of the Affected: How the media are... →
A team of media-development experts that has been working with radio stations in earthquake-damaged Haiti to provide critical information to people in need is, in the process, fundamentally improving…
Somalia — National Geographic Magazine →
Mogadishu is ground zero for the failed state of Somalia, a place where pirates and terrorists rule. Yet to the north, the breakaway region of Somaliland is stable and at peace. What happened?
Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations’ Go-To... →
Samantha Power’s new film offers a gut-wrenching portrait of the late Sergio Vieira de Mello, a man whose loss the United Nations is still struggling to overcome today.
Donors’ three mistakes in fragile states – Chris... →
You’re the Finance Minister in a country just coming out of conflict. Or maybe you’re disaster-struck like Haiti. Donors line up and make big pledges. UN agencies arrive and occupy whole blocks of…
Good camp, bad camp: The shortfalls of Haiti aid -... →
The organized relocation camp at Corail-Cesselesse has thousands of spacious, hurricane-resistant tents on groomed, graded mountain soil. The settlement four kilometres down the road — named after…
