Bill and Melinda Gates increase vaccination funding Bill and Melinda Gates have pledged $10 billion in a bid to save millions of lives during the next decade with vaccines. The funds will support efforts to provide vaccinations for diseases such as measles, diphtheria and polio, and develop new vaccines. U.S. struggles over status for Haitian […]
Human Rights in Crisis A selection of Pulitzer Center-sponsored works When: February 1, 2010 Time: 6-8 PM Where: Hart Auditorium-Georgetown University Law Center 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Reception to follow Screening and Q&A, with journalists Welcome by Ann Peters (GULC, 94), Pulitzer Center Featuring: • “Afghanistan Disabled,” Don Duncan and Jessica Wanke cover the […]
Call for papers: UNICEF and the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) at The NewSchool will host an international conference on adolescent girls in April 2010. With an emphasis on reviewing existing evidence and policies, the conference will focus on the role and potential agency of adolescent girls in meeting emerging global challenges. The conference, […]
As an activist and writer, one who focuses on issues that face children, but with a passion and concentration on modern day slavery, I live and work in a world that is full of stories of the worlds most heinous and shocking crimes against humanity. Often I am asked how do you do it…how do […]
A year after the Gaza War, the debate rages on about the conduct of forces on both sides during the three-week conflict. By now, major human rights organizations both in Israel and abroad have had their say in what crimes may have been committed during the war, and the UN released the results of their […]
Antwerp, Belgium is Europe’s second largest port. At this very moment it is, like so many other places, going through troubling times. Unemployment is high and now, last week, General Motors announced they will close the Opel plant which means thousands of lost jobs in this city. But this post is not about Opel, nor […]
*Noam Scheiber, the senior editor of The New Republic, says that much of the Haiti coverage is “redundant” and worries that the massive media onslaught is further complicating the recovery efforts. He proposes a “disaster pool” to deal with the problem: “Just like they do for White House coverage, the major (and some not so […]
Some stories never die. Human trafficking, a multibillion dollar a year global industry, seems to be one of them. In recent years, there has been a huge advocacy effort that has raised awareness on the issue, but still the trade of people as goods persists in every corner of the world. One of the most […]
UNESCO: Attendance not the only challenge to educating world’s poor While school registrations have increased in poor countries around the world since the United Nations adopted “Education for All” goals in 1999, many children are not getting an education, according to a report from UNESCO. Unqualified teachers, lack of school supplies, absent educators and latent […]
Yesterday Human Rights Watch released their annual World Report for 2010, detailing the state of human rights affairs around the world for the previous year. Many of the stories they focused on were also covered and editorialized here throughout 2009, from government abuses in Eritrea and Sri Lanka to increased civilian casualties in the Democratic […]
As the aftermath of Haiti’s deadly hurricane continues to unfold, historic rescues are starting to be come less and less as hope for finding live victims in the debris and rubble has faded, as fear induced ciaos quickly followed in its path. A country already teetering on the brink of disrepair, the future of Haiti […]
Last week President Barack Obama granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitians for a period of 18 months. This applies those already living in the US, but without legal papers. It prevents their detainment or deportation, and enables them to work legally. The purpose of this status is to protect persons who cannot return to […]
It was probably over before it even started. As I watched Bulgaria’s minister of foreign affairs, Rumiana Jeleva, shuffle with discernible panic in her chair, any notions she had of becoming the EU’s future commissioner for humanitarian affairs came to an abrupt end. That was last Tuesday at the European Parliament as MEPs from around […]
We don’t all have a lot of money to send to Haiti to add to the countries harrowing disaster and relief effort and few of us have the needed skills, time and capabilities to volunteer to go over and help the country quite literally dig themselves out of the heartbreaking rubble that covers the impoverished […]
News of the disaster in Haiti drowned out most other concerns last week but the earthquake was not the only newsworthy thing that happened in the world. Earlier the same day as the earthquake, Google posted a surprising message on its official company blog that raised the possibility the search engine giant may leave the […]