January 2011
63 posts
UNICEF - Pakistan - Six months after floods... →
Six months after devastating floods tore through Pakistan, the country remains in a state of emergency. The magnitude of the tragedy has been difficult to fully comprehend. Millions remain without…
UNICEF - Pakistan - Six months after floods... →
Six months ago, the worst floods in Pakistan’s history struck that country, affecting more than 20 million people. The floodwaters that swept the length of Pakistan six months ago have abated to…
The Pakistan Floods — Six Months On - Photo Essays... →
The long-term challenge is to help the Pakistani people rebuild their lives with focus shifting to infrastructure, agriculture and basic living standards.
Haiti, one year later - The Big Picture -... →
It’s been one year since the earth shook so violently below Port-au-Prince, Haiti, destroying and damaging hundreds of thousands of buildings and lives in mere moments. Twelve months of struggle and…
Is George Clooney helping? Celebrity and the South... →
George Clooney, along with the Enough Project, Harvard researchers, and some of his wealthier Hollywood friends, have hired satellites to monitor troop movements along the north-south border,…
A year on, hubris and debris clog Haiti quake... →
A year after the Haiti earthquake, the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country is still reeling and the international community’s capacity to deliver and sustain aid effectively is being sorely tested….
A Dialogue Between Human Rights Reporter,...
motherjones:
Photographer [to Haitian-born driver who wants to know why we’re here]: You know, we’re looking at various kinds of progress since the earthquake—
Driver: Progress! Ha ha ha ha ha ha…
Photographer and I: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Sorry. Well, you know…
Follow the odyssey of Mother Jones reporter Mac McClelland and photog Mark Murrman, starting today with “In Search of Progress in...
Pakistan Needs More Than Three Cups Of Tea To Fix... →
Three Cups of Tea popularized the notion that Americans can build schools in Pakistan to counter extremism and reduce poverty. Pakistanis and Pakistani-Americans have been building schools with equal…
Pakistan: The moral collapse of a nation |... →
Politicians, lawyers and journalists who championed the cause of democracy now fail to speak up
Mossad's Most Dastardly (Alleged) Plots | Foreign... →
From Munich to the Mabhouh assassination, the secretive Israeli intelligence agency has pulled off some pretty elaborate operations in its time. But lately, Middle Eastern media outlets and…
New Zealand on the Behance Network | behance.net →
A stunning collection of landscape photography from New Zealand
“After Taseer [supported] a woman guilty of using bad words for Prophet Muhammad...”
– A Taliban commander interviewed by NEWSWEEK, on the assassination of Punjab Gov. Salmaan Taseer, one of Pakistan’s strongest voices confronting Islamic extremism. Some worry Taseer’s killing may launch a wave of attacks against other like-minded Pakistanis. (via newsweek)
What Salman Taseer's assassination could mean for... →
Hundreds of Pakistan’s leading clerics have signed a statement condoning the killing of a powerful politician who opposed the country’s blasphemy laws. Experts believe the outpouring of praise for…
Salman Taseer assassination points to Pakistani... →
One of Pakistan’s most openly progressive politicians was gunned down Tuesday in an act that violently highlighted extremists’ tightening grip on the country even as the beleaguered government…
Police: Pakistani governor killed in gun attack |... →
The governor of Pakistan’s powerful Punjab province was shot dead Tuesday by one of his guards in the Pakistani capital. The killing of Salman Taseer was the most high-profile assassination of a…
Pakistan: A nation in turmoil - Picture Stories -... →
A series of recent photos of everyday life in Pakistan