August 2010 - Global Health - The Network of Care

International Corporations vs. Developing Nations: The Story of El Salvador

(With the first vote announced by the World Bank Tribunal, the battle wages on between El Salvador and Pacific Rim Mining Corporation.) In a disappointing turn of events, the government of El Salvador has lost the first round in its battle against Pacific...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 9:37 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Your UN General Assembly Summer Reading

September's UN General Assembly may feel far from the beach, but I thought that I'd do a favor for those of you new to following the UN's affairs and share my handy little UN lexicon. Below are phrases that are technically English, but either...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 2:48 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

It's 9 A.M. Do You Know What Your Local Rep Has to Say About Global Poverty?

You know it's silly season when the Tea Party is turning to Colonial Williamsburg for inspirational fodder on anti-government rebellion, while Democrats in Michigan are not-so-secretly staging a tea party of their own. Yes, it's that time again...

Published Tue, Aug 10 2010 6:00 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Wyclef Jean: Haiti's Next President?

As I wrote in February, celebrities often have an inordinate amount of power when it comes to swaying public opinion. So when they use it to bring attention to natural disasters, social issues or global problems, that's all well and good. But what...

Published Sat, Aug 07 2010 6:30 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Kampala to Beijing: Global Health's Influential New "Hot Spots"

When we think about the places where policies influencing global health are debated and decided, there are a few usual suspects — cities like New York, Geneva, Washington D.C and London. Not surprisingly, though, and perhaps disappointingly, all...

Published Mon, Aug 02 2010 6:06 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

The Situation in Darfur Deteriorates

If anyone was under any illusion that Darfur was more or less resolved or could simply be “managed,” recent developments there should be an abrupt wake-up call. A tense situation that continues to unfold in Kalma camp – one of the region’s largest with...

Published Mon, Aug 16 2010 3:23 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Taliban and Family Execute Youth Who Eloped for Love

"In Bold Display, Taliban order Stoning Deaths" , reads a New York Times headline by Rob Nordland. What's shocking about this case of Taliban militants and family members killing a 25-year-old man and 19-year-old woman outside Kunduz is...

Published Tue, Aug 17 2010 4:15 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Is Obama Failing on AIDS?

President Obama is coming in for a very public flogging over a perceived lack of action on the global AIDS pandemic. Is it deserved? In Washington, D.C., bus stop posters earlier this summer compared Obama to former president Bush and asked, “Who’s better...

Published Sun, Aug 22 2010 7:09 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Porn Vs. Politics as Usual

Elected officials worldwide, and especially in the U.S., are notorious for being overly distracted, aloof and absentminded during routine and even special legislative sessions. In other words, they apparently believe that there's better things to...

Published Thu, Aug 12 2010 7:47 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Iraq: One Person's Liberation Might Be Another's Nightmare

There's a new book out you should check out: Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage , by Michael Otterman and Richard Hil with Paul Wilson (and with dozens of Iraqi bloggers who are quoted). Although those who remain champions of the 2003 invasion...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 10:47 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Safeguarding International Adoption: Going Beyond the Hague Convention

(This is the third post in a series on the business and human rights implications of international adoption.) Earlier posts discussed corruption in international adoptions, caused primarily by the large sums of money that change hands during many adoptions...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 6:26 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Misdirected Conversation

The first nuclear weapon used in an act of hostility happened 65 years ago on Friday, and the last one 65 years ago this coming Monday. The Obama administration, among other world leaders, chose to send a delegate to the Hiroshima memorial service, which...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2010 6:36 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Now Growing in Africa: Ethanol

If a Western oil giant has its way, rural Sierra Leone will soon be the site of some major ethanol production. The possibility is raising an increasingly common set of questions: Is that the right way to use the land? And whose land, anyway? The ethanol...

Published Tue, Aug 03 2010 12:48 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Sorry You Got Tortured, But No More Social Security For You

Ten years ago, Obid Sharif and Buthaina Elamin Adam — a married couple and both now 73 — came to the U.S. from Sudan and won asylum. They've got green cards, and they've set up a life in Reston, VA. As older refugees, they rely on SSI, or Supplemental...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 6:24 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Meet Malawi's SkyLoos

The top killer in Malawi isn't malaria, and it isn't AIDS. It's a condition far more mundane than either of those diseases, and something that not many people want to talk about: diarrhea. Across Malawi, lack of toilets and clean drinking...

Published Wed, Aug 11 2010 12:53 PM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

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