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Bangladesh: Spreading the Warmth
30 Nov 2009 17:19:22 GMT
Author: Global Voices
Bangladeshi blogger Sadiq Alam, who blogs at Inspirations and Creative Thoughts, has taken an initiative called Spreading the Warmth. The goal is to distribute winter clothes for those who live on the street in Dhaka, especially the children and the elderly.
West Bank Bedouins say they are facing drought and discrimination
30 Nov 2009 15:46:00 GMT
Author: The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (
Rows of houses stand sentry on the parched, barren hill. A water tower rises from their midst, irrigating lush greenery. But beyond this West Bank settlement's perimeter fence is a tiny Bedouin campsite where people are desperate for water.
Poppies and poverty in Afghanistan
30 Nov 2009 13:53:00 GMT
Author: Transnational Institute
Written by Martin Jelsma and Tom Kramer
Displaced villagers living with climate change
30 Nov 2009 12:56:00 GMT
Author: Esther Williams
Bangladesh's Kalinagar village, crammed on an elevated dyke, is a landscape flooded with straw and clay huts covered in blue tarpaulin. Over 14,000 people displaced by a combination of Cyclone Aila and rising water levels struggle to survive there.
I Will Not Give Up
27 Nov 2009 16:54:00 GMT
Author: Oxfam
By Bao Xiuhong
No homes in sight for 900,000 Myanmar cyclone survivors
25 Nov 2009 17:02:00 GMT
Author: A Myanmar expert in Bangkok
BANGKOK - For about 100,000 people in Myanmar who have been living in makeshift shelters since Cyclone Nargis hit 18 months ago, Wednesday's news of fresh donor money spells light at the end of the tunnel.
China: Children who are left behind
25 Nov 2009 02:38:35 GMT
Author: Global Voices
On November 12, several days before the International Childrens Day, an explosion erupted in an illegal fire cracker factory in Guangxi which resulted in 2 children workers dead and 11 others injured.
Trials not yet a deterrent to rapes in Congo
24 Nov 2009 17:39:00 GMT
Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - In the year since the start of the first trial at the international war crimes court involving an alleged Congolese warlord, rape on a mass scale has continued unabated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Climate change and conflict: respecting complexity
24 Nov 2009 11:29:00 GMT
Author: Dan Smith
The climate deal won't happen at Copenhagen in December. The work will continue. And as more people become aware of and motivated by the links between climate change on the one hand and conflict, peace and security on the other, both the possibility and the necessity of clarity about those links increase.
Afghanistan: Counting the cost of war
23 Nov 2009 17:28:42 GMT
Author: Global Voices
Nick Fielding reviews The Cost of War: Afghan Experiences of Conflict 1978-2009, a report by nine NGOs working in Afghanistan analyzing 30 years of war and a devastating impact they had.


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