Global Health

Getting Technical on Haiti, But Not Too Technical

When a who’s-who cast of 150 leaders in online innovation and development got together last week for the State Department’s Haiti Tech Meet-Up , they grazed the surface of a smorgasbord of the hottest issues of the day with all the flash and fanfare the...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 8:17 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

'Building Back Better' in Haiti as Aid Runs Dry

Ruth Messinger is part of Change.org's Changemaker network, a network comprised of leading voices for social change. According to the latest UN figures, 1.3 million Haitians have been left homeless by the quake. Some of these Haitians are no longer...

Published Thu, May 06 2010 5:58 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Donors Falter on Education Promises in Africa

It's often said, Never break a promise to a child. Presumably, when we're talking about 32 million children, the adage still holds true. But as the UN agency charged with promoting universal education warns , when it comes to past promises of...

Published Thu, Jul 08 2010 10:23 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Stock Up on Sunscreen, 'Cause You May Soon Live in the Desert

For those of us believers, it's pretty clear that global warming is to blame for the weather chaos that has been plaguing the earth of late. From the flooding in Pakistan that has already claimed the lives of 20 million people and is still going strong...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 8:10 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Can Redrawing the Map "Fix" Africa?

When I talk to people who’ve never been to Africa, there’s sometimes a tendency to treat the continent as a dysfunctional object. I’ll get asked questions about ethnic conflict and corruption, and I’ll get the 30-second warning that Africa is ceasing...

Published Thu, Jun 10 2010 6:54 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Engineering Success? New Evidence on the Millennium Villages Project

If you're looking for clarity three years in on whether the Millennium Villages Project — the vision of aid utopia from industry superstar Jeffrey Sachs — are best practice or bunk, you're best off avoiding the MVP's latest report . For those...

Published Tue, Jun 15 2010 6:51 AM by Change.org's Global Poverty Blog

Rising Temperatures Aid The Plague's Comeback

Is the plague making a comeback ? Well it never went away, and unless we kill all rodents, it won't ever disappear completely. Drug resistant strains in Madagascar have scientists worried. Globalization, urbanization, and even climate change is helping...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 1:22 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

The Conservative Case for More Haitian Migrants

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 As we wrote about earlier today, a poll released by Gallup this week found a yawning partisan divide in how willing U.S. voters are to let more Haitian refugees into the United...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 2:38 PM by Change.org's Global Health Blog

Separatism, Sovereignty and Peace: A Different Path to Global Economic Recovery

The proverb "history repeats itself" usually refers to separate, thematically related events spanning decades or centuries. But in the recent cases of peace proposals by two violent separatist groups being rejected outright by the countries...

Published Sun, Sep 12 2010 6:32 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

A Quasi-Success Story: Maternal and Child Health Millennium Development Goals

Is it better to set achievable goals or ambitious ones? The frequent critique of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is that they provide an ambitious destination with very little by way of roadmap or funding. This is the equivalent of sending someone...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 6:00 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Making a PROMISE of Peace to Our Youth

In the spirit of the International Day of Peace, we here at Change.org wanted to take a moment to highlight a national initiative focused on the prevention of youth violence. The Peace Alliance, in coordination with a group of dedicated members of Congress...

Published Tue, Sep 21 2010 6:32 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

One Email Gets Teen Banned from U.S. for Life

You know those annoying chain emails and spam everyone gets all too often? This is nothing like them, and neither should our impulsive blackout reaction to them be. Don't even dare to think of freely expressing your negative thoughts about government...

Published Tue, Sep 14 2010 5:09 PM 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

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

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

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