August 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

What is Obama Waiting for in Sudan?

As a perpetual optimist, even I am starting to become pessimistic about Sudan and the potential for the U.S. to step up and implement a successful Sudan policy. With the Obama administration still “mulling over” potential policy changes, tensions are...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2010 3:15 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Beware, Your Social Media Privacy Is In These Hands

The U.S. Office of Naval Research and the U.S. government-run National Science Foundation are funding the groundbreaking research that will "protect" your online privacy in the very near future, particularly on widely used social media sites...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2010 12:00 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Honoring U.S.-Affiliated Iraqis Like "Roy”

Over the weekend, The Washington Post published a humanizing, heart-wrenching glimpse of a portrait of a young Iraqi interpreter who served alongside American soldiers when the insurgency was at its potent and lethal zenith three years ago. “Roy,” the...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2010 9:00 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Enticing Kids to Smoke, One Hip Party at a Time

Remember the days when the Marlboro Man and Joe the Camel made cigarette smoking look utterly cool? Those days are long gone, right? Well, maybe for American youth, but not for kids in Nigeria. According to Environmental Rights Action (ERA), a Nigerian...

Published Tue, Aug 31 2010 6:47 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

In Are The Days of The Aid Entrepreneur

What would you do with $600 billion? That’s the figure rumored to be the bare minimum Bill Gates and Warren Buffet want to shake out of the world’s wealthiest people in the name of charity when their Giving Pledge is all said and done. How they plan to...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 12:00 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Africa Doesn't Want or Need UK Aid

Last fiscal year, British public debt reached levels never seen before — prompting the release of an emergency budget last week aimed at remedying the fiscal imbalances. Assured cuts to funding had many worrying that programs for the poor and marginalized...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 9:00 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Latin America in Crisis: An Expert Witness Responds

Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner of Columbia University is a world-renowned scholar and filmmaker. She has been named as one of the nation’s “100 Most influential Latinos” by Hispanic Business. Born in Puerto Rico, her work spans several fields, including...

Published Mon, Aug 30 2010 6:57 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Google's Scam-paign for Human Rights Needs to Change

Google, the owner of YouTube, has recently launched a video blog series with Witness, an advocacy and training organization, to examine "the role of online video in human rights," in addition to their Citizentube channel, "a feed of the...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 11:22 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Getting the Simple Things Right In Addressing Global Poverty

The big landmarks in the development field tend to be the things we get most excited about, but often, they signify little in the way of meaningful change. Kenya’s new constitution, which Meredith Slater has written about for Change.Org here , is an important...

Published Thu, Aug 26 2010 6:12 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

A Farewell to Arms for the "Ten-Dollar Taliban" Underway

In the title of Ernest Hemingway's famous novel, A Farewell to Arms , the pun is on the "arms." In the story, the tragic hero leaves the "arms" of war to fall into the "arms" of a lover, who then dies giving birth to...

Published Wed, Aug 25 2010 6:30 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Drug Addicts in the Developing World and the Practice of Flashblood

In July, The New York Times reported a new practice called “flashblood” where some intravenous drug addicts in several east African countries inject other users’ drug-filled blood in order to stave off withdrawal. The public health community is appalled...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 1:47 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Debunking the Myth of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan

What do you call an enemy who doesn't attack you, doesn't even threaten you, and that you invented as pretext to invading and occupying yet another country for its natural resources? The myth of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, just now being debunked...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 9:45 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Budget Cuts Should Not Kill Human Rights Monitoring

Is England backing down on its long tradition of human rights advocacy? Perhaps not. But budget cuts to human rights monitoring have some wondering. The stir up began yesterday when the British government confirmed claims that it would cut about $ 870...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 6:30 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Valiant Effort, Wyclef Jean. But Now It's Time to Move On

To those of us who have familiarized ourselves with Haitian law, it came as no big surprise when the announcement was made by Haiti's electoral council late Friday night that Wyclef Jean had been disqualified as a candidate for president of Haiti...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 2:53 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Humanitarian Aid Workers Deserve To Be Celebrated, Not Forgotten

This past week we celebrated World Humanitarian Day, or at least tried to. The global audience did not rally as much as some of us would have hoped. Why not? A good indicator is how right after the UN released it's clever World Humanitarian Day project...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 6:10 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

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