Saturday, April 19, 2014

Responding to disasters in urban areas vs rural ones

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The IRIN news service has a good piece about how responding to the devastation wrought by disaster in urban areas offers very different c...
Friday, December 06, 2013

Mandela's legacy was about human dignity

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"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others....
Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Syria suffering awful but NOT 'unparallled in recent history'

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In a rather shocking statement statement from someone in a position to know better, the head of the UN refugee agency described the situatio...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

How the Baghdad bombing changed humanitarian affairs

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Ten years ago today, a bombing obliterated United Nations headquarters in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing 22 aid workers and UN staff me...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Are anti-AIDS programs based on a false premise?

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The public radio show This American life has a fascinating story on how counterintuitive behavior sometimes save lives and how many AIDS pr...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

How Mali became a failed state

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The Washington Post has a good analysis of Mali's rapid descent into a virtual failed state following a  military coup d'Etat thre...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Evil scum war criminal pats himself on the back

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In his sentencing hearing yesterday, evil scum and war criminal Charles Taylor pleaded for mercy from the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone...