Michael Kleinman
Michael Kleinman is an aid worker, lawyer, and consultant. From 2004 to 2007 he worked for CARE, first as the organization's Advocacy Advisor in Afghanistan, then covering Sudan, and finally as CARE's Regional Advocacy Advisor for East and Central Africa. He left CARE in early 2007 to take a position with International Relief & Development in Iraq. Prior to going overseas, Michael worked for the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, providing assistance to the United Nations. He is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. He runs change.org's blog on a humanitarian relief.
Wednesday award for the worst place in the world
This blog post is taken from Michael Kleinman's change.org blog on humanitarian relief This is a special, WTF version of the Wednesday awards - namely, reports in The Times that 1,400 civilians are dying each week at the Manik Farm displaced person camp in Sri Lanka. Come again? 1,400 deaths per week? ...
Killing me softly in south Sudan
This blog post is taken from Michael Kleinman's change.org blog on humanitarian relief The deadliest region of Sudan isn't Darfur - instead, it's Jonglei State in South Sudan, where inter-tribal clashes killed more than 1,000 people in March and April alone. Casualty calculus is always somewhat problematic, but illuminating nonetheless - by way of comparison, 143 people were killed in Darfur over the same two-month period. ...
Aid workers kidnapped in Darfur, Afghanistan
This blog post is taken from Michael Kleinman's change.org blog on humanitarian relief Bad, bad week on the abductions front. Last Friday night, gunmen kidnapped two aid workers in Darfur - the two women, one Irish and one Ugandan, work for Goal. They were taken from the compound in Kutum, North Darfur shortly after nightfall. The kidnappers identity is still unclear. ...
Groundhog Day, Darfur-style
This blog post is taken from Michael Kleinman's change.org blog on humanitarian relief The cat seems to be escaping the bag - after months of rumors, there are now reports that some of the expelled aid agencies might return to Darfur. According to Reuters AlertNet: "Three U.S. aid groups expelled from Sudan three months ago are in talks to send new teams back into the country, relief workers said on Tuesday." The article identifies the three agencies as CARE, Mercy Corps and Save the Children. It seems that the agencies would return as "branches of their organizations affilliated to other countries" - i.e. Mercy Corps would return as Mercy Corps Scotland. ...
Aid worker safety: Glass half full, glass half empty
This blog post is taken from Michael Kleinman's change.org blog on humanitarian relief Just to continue on the theme of aid worker security, some good news and some not-so-good news of late. First, the good news. Four UN staff kidnapped in Somalia on Monday were released unharmed that same evening. ...
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