June 2010
72 posts
SocialDocumentary.net - Using the power of... →
SocialDocumentary.net is a website for photographers, NGOs, editors, journalists, lovers of photography and anyone else who believes that photography plays an important role in educating people about…
After the Taliban, Back to Normal - Photographs by... →
When the Taliban ran Afghanistan, they destroyed idols, refused to educate women, and even forbade kite-flying. After the Americans unseated them in 2001, Afghans slowly began recovering the basic…
Postcards from Hell - Images from the world's most... →
For the last half-decade, the Fund for Peace, working with Foreign Policy, has been putting together the Failed States Index, using a battery of indicators to determine how stable — or unstable — a…
Embedistan - At War Blog - NYTimes.com →
Even before a magazine journalist brought down Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the institutionalized practice of journalists moving and living with military units was one of the most controversial…
Pakistan Watches Google, Yahoo and Amazon for... →
Pakistan will start monitoring seven major websites, including Google, Yahoo and Amazon, for sacrilegious content, while blocking 17 other, lesser-known sites it deems offensive to Muslims.
The Runaway General - Stanley McChrystal &... →
Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: the wimps in the White House….the article that led to his downfall.
Apocalypse Afghanistan - Photo Essays - TIME →
From soldiers to civilians, photographer Mauricio Lima discovers two worlds within the war-torn nation - daily life under occupation in Afghanistan.
Female Circumcision in Indonesia - A Photo Essay... →
The families of 248 girls were given money to have their daughter’s circumcised in a mass circumcision celebration timed to honour the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday.
Selling the Distant Other: Humanitarianism and... →
This article investigates the integral relationship between humanitarian relief and imagery, focusing in particular on the ways in which aid agencies produce and disseminate images of human suffering.
Global Pulse | Harnessing innovation to protect... →
Global Pulse is a United Nations initiative to close the information gap between the onset of a global crisis and the availability of actionable information to protect vulnerable populations.
Kyrgyzstan Torn by Ethnic Bloodshed as Uzbeks Flee... →
The international community, and especially the United Nations Security Council, has an opportunity to finally live up to some of its lofty rhetoric. It is possible, still, to prevent Kyrgyzstan from…
Beyond Good Intentions | Documentary Series on Aid... →
The Beyond Good Intentions film series follows the round-the-world journey of first-time filmmaker, Tori Hogan, as she investigates how international aid can be more effective. On this journey,…
An Online Atlas of the Millennium Development... →
An interactive atlas by the World Bank, comparing each of the MDG indicators at the global level.
Human Rights Watch slams high rates of female... →
On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch held a news conference in Irbil, Iraq, to rally international outcry against the practice. The organization presented its report on the practice in Iraqi Kurdistan,…
“They Took Me and Told Me Nothing”: Female Genital... →
While internationally recognized as a form of violence against women and girls, the tragedy is that female genital mutilation is perpetuated by mothers, aunts and other women who love and want the…
Kyrgyzstan crisis: UN says 400,000 displaced by... →
The UN says that the number of people displaced by unrest in southern Kyrgyzstan has reached 400,000. About 300,000 people have fled their homes, while another 75,000-100,000 people - not counting…
Group Assails Genital Cutting in Kurdistan -... →
Human Rights Watch urged Kurdistan’s government on Wednesday to ban genital cutting of women and girls, a practice the organization said is widespread and dangerous there, but which they said Kurdish…
As Kyrgyzstan Violence Eases, Evidence Points to... →
Violence ebbed on Tuesday and people began emerging from their barricaded homes in Kyrgyzstan’s ethnically torn south, as evidence mounted that days of brutal bloodletting had been deliberately…
Amos tipped for top U.N. humanitarian relief... →
Valerie Amos, a British high commissioner in Australia, has emerged as a frontrunner for the U.N.’s top humanitarian relief coordinator, highlighting U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s preference…
Millions suffer in 'human rights free zone' in... →
Millions of Pakistanis in the northwest tribal areas live in a human rights free zone where they have no legal protection by the government and are subject to abuses by the Taliban, Amnesty…
Amnesty International: Pakistan's triple threat... →
It is civilians who suffer as a consequence of the fighting between the Taliban and Pakistani government forces in northwest Pakistan. What is little reported is that this region is also home to…
Global index finds world has become less peaceful... →
The world has become less peaceful over the last year, despite a drop in the number of armed conflicts, according to this year’s Global Peace Index (GPI). Figures published today show homicide rates…
US places No. 85 -- behind Libya -- in Global... →
The world is slightly less peaceful than it was a year ago, in part as a consequence of the global recession. But falling military expenditures in the Middle East and shrinking access to small arms…
