Top of the Morning: South Sudan’s Military Targets UN
Originally posted here.Top stories from DAWNS DigestSouth Sudan’s Military Targets UN A government that depends on international support is deliberately targeting the UN. “South Sudan’s relationship...
View ArticleThe Commission on Status of Women Takes On the Sustainable Development Goals
Originally posted here.The second week of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) began yesterday here at UN Headquarters. The debate over a final outcome document from the conference — and how...
View ArticleWhat are the “Best Buys” in Global Health?
Originally posted here.What are the most crucial areas for investments in global health over the next five to ten years? That question was put to 1,500 international health and development...
View ArticleTop of the Morning: Extreme Drought in Haiti
Originally posted here.Top stories from DAWNS DigestExtreme Drought in Haiti Poor rains are forcing an extreme drought that is threatening livelihoods and causing food insecurity. “A drought is causing...
View ArticleWhat the MH370 Mystery Tells us About Southeast Asian Politics
Originally posted here.MH370 has gripped the imagination of the world, knocking the Crimea and Venezuela off TV screens and fostering wide-spread international speculation, as well as a search that now...
View ArticleWhy There’s a New Outbreak of Violence in Darfur
Originally posted here.Violence has re-ignited in Darfur in recent weeks, with civilians continuing to bear the brunt of the complex relationships between paramilitary forces and other armed...
View ArticleTop of the Morning: Grave Warning on Anti-Muslim Violence in CAR
Originally posted here.Top stories from DAWNS DigestUN Rights Chief Issues Grave Warning on Anti-Muslim Violence in CARSome 15,000 muslims are stuck in enclaves in Bangui. “Thousands of Muslims in the...
View ArticleCommission on Status of Women Takes on Gender and Climate Change
Originally posted here.Climate Change and gender are often treated as distinct and separate issues by policymakers in and out of the UN system. But there is more and more evidence that the two are...
View ArticleStatistic of the Day: China Halves Tuberculosis Prevalence
Originally posted here.The Lancet just published an important new study showing the prevalence of Tuberculosis in China has been reduced by half since 1990, from about 170 cases per 100,000 people to...
View ArticleTop of the Morning: Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
Originally posted here.Top stories from DAWNS Digest An Ebola Outbreak: MSF and UNICEF are launching an emergency medical intervention following reports of Ebola in southern Guinea, where an outbreak...
View ArticleCAR: What’s Religion Go to Do With It?
Originally posted here.How important is religion to the crisis in the Central African Republic?Recent reports on ongoing violence have drawn attention to the fact that Muslims, by the hundreds of...
View ArticleWe Are Winning the Fight Against TB
Originally posted here.It’s World Tuberculosis Day today.First some cold hard facts about the disease from the World Health Organization:– 8.6 million people fell ill in 2012 and 1.3 million people...
View ArticleTop of the Morning: #Kony2014
Originally posted here. #Kony2014. The USA is more than doubling its troop commitment to help find the reclusive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, sending 150 troops and at least four CV-22...
View ArticleHow the World Health Organization is Responding to the Ebola Outbreak in Guinea
Originally posted here.The World Health Organization this morning confirmed a “rapidly evolving” outbreak of Ebola in Guinea. This is the first ebola outbreak in western Africa and the worst outbreak...
View ArticleThe 5 Territories that Russia Could Annex Next
Originally posted here.Following the recent referendum in Crimea and the growing tensions between the West and Russia over the latter’s military actions in Ukraine, many analysts are looking at what...
View ArticleTop of the Morning: The Deadly Air You Breathe
Originally posted here.Via DAWNS Digest.The World’s Top Killer is the Air You Breathe: The World Health Organization reports that about 7 million people died in 2012 as a result of air pollution. To...
View ArticleTop of the Morning: One Year On, the CAR Crisis is Getting Very Bad, Very...
Originally posted here.Top stories from DAWNS DigestOne Year On, the CAR Crisis is Getting Very Bad, Very Quickly…This week marks the one year anniversary of a rebellion that ousted the longtime leader...
View ArticleHere’s How Internationally Isolated Russia Has Become
Originally posted here.The UN General Assembly met this morning in a special session to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. On the table was a resolution that affirms the “political independence, unity and...
View ArticleClimate Change and Everything Else
Originally posted here.The long awaited report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has hit the presses. It’s “concluded that ice caps are melting, sea ice in the Arctic is...
View ArticleRwanda’s Uncertain Path to Reconciliation
Originally posted here.On the night of April 6, 1994, a private plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down as it approached Kigali airport. Within an hour, roadblocks appeared...
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