A New Ingeniously Designed Shelter For Refugees. What do you do when a flash mob of a million homeless refugees shows up to your third world country from the neighboring third world country?
Make them sleep on the hot (or cold) ground and wait for the United Nations to show up with crappy tents, of course. Until next month, that is, when you’ll be able to put them up in solar-powered huts on the cheap. 3rd International Conference on Urban Disaster Reduction: “Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Addressing Risks and Uncertainty” USCRI. World Watch Monitor.
How to Do Intervention Without Blowing Stuff Up. As the United States and its allies withdraw their forces from Afghanistan, the part of the global war on terror that involves massive military action is coming to an end.
To be sure, drones and Special Forces will still engage in targeted strikes, but it may be quite some time before the Pentagon mobilizes for another large-scale invasion. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued in his memoir that our foreign policy "has become too militarized" — but in fact, the military’s own long-term strategic plans would severely constrain its ability to conduct what it terms "large-scale, prolonged stability operations. " But despite the current preference for retrenchment among the American people and their president, the dangers to Western security have hardly dissipated. AidSource - (The Humanitarian Social Network)
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The William Jewett Tucker Foundation will host the annual Community Multi-Faith Celebration honoring the life and works of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Reverend Starsky Wilson, president & CEO of Deaconess Foundation and co-chair of the Ferguson Commission, will be the featured speaker. World Making Progress Against Hunger, Report Finds, but Large Pockets of Undernourished Persist. GOOD » ROSA LOVES ♥ Info. Bonded labor stretches from third to first world – The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery - CNN.com Blogs.
Editor's Note: Anti-trafficking expert Siddharth Kara is the author of “Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia,” providing the first comprehensive overview of bonded labor in South Asia.
In September 2010, I met a young girl named Nirmala in the remote western Terai region of Nepal. Nirmala is one of the thousands of internally trafficked domestic slaves in Nepal, called kamlari, who belong to the outcast Tharu ethnic group. Agents recruit Tharu girls as young as eight to work as servants in upper-caste homes. Aside from room and board, the children receive little to no payment for up to 10 years of work. Kamlari girls often suffer extreme abuse and maltreatment. “I did all the work,” Nirmala explained, “cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, washing dishes.
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Programs that work with non-native English speaking populations remain strong through contributions of dedicated individuals. Spring's ESL classes and Colorado Welcome Back program thrive with a variety of instructors and trainers that can assist participants with lesson content, out-of-class site visits, homework, and even conversation practice. UNICEF - At a glance: Lebanon - Bringing learning to Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. By Miriam Azar “A child in school is a child protected.” – UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Annamaria Laurini BEIRUT, Lebanon, 10 January 2014 – Many of the younger children struggle to hold a pen.
Some don’t know how; others have forgotten. “This is the first time I have gone to school in two years,” says Hanaa, a Syrian refugee. She sits in the sand in the informal settlement in eastern Lebanon that she and her family call home. Rafah is a young Syrian refugee. Jobs in charities. When Charity Destroys Dignity: SCHWARTZ GLEN: 9781425993917: Amazon.com: Books.
Life Impact International. Cross-CulturalCare(C3) > Home. No Boundaries International. The Crossing - Current Openings. Working with us - IFRC. Save the Children Jobs. Plan – improving children's lives in developing countries. Journal of Children & Poverty / Home. Sunlight Foundation. Very Serious Commentary on Very Important Issues. CAIR-Washington State. PrimaCafé. TheElders.org. 7 Blogs Every Humanitarian Should Follow. There With Care. Isis announces Islamic caliphate in area straddling Iraq and Syria. Link to video: Isis militants parade military muscle in Raqqa, Syria Islamist militants have declared an Islamic "caliphate" in an area straddling Iraq and Syria, trumpeting the declaration in several videos.
One slick video, mostly in English, features a bearded fighter with an AK-47 on his back, explaining the new caliphate. "This is not the first border we will break, we will break other borders," a jihadist from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis) warned in the video called End of Sykes-Picot, a reference to the agreement between France and Britain that divided up the Ottoman empire territories after the first world war. Later the fighter pledges that jihadists will free Palestine. "We are not here to replace an Arab cahoot with a western cahoot.
He is filmed showing abandoned Iraqi army badges and vehicles left by fleeing soldiers. The video features about a dozen men in a cell said to be captured troops and border police. UNICEF Connect - UNICEF BLOG. Contact Samaritan's Purse. Azraq camp 6 - YouTube. DARE NOT WALK ALONE : The War of Responsibility. Franklin Graham: Putin Is Better on Gay Issues than Obama - Kevin Eckstrom. Evangelist Franklin Graham is praising Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggressive crackdown on homosexuality, saying his record on protecting children from gay “propaganda” is better than President Obama’s “shameful” embrace of gay rights.
Evangelist Billy Graham, right, with son Franklin Graham, at a crusade in New York in 2005. Photo by Michael Falco. The Russian law came under heavy criticism from gay rights activists, and from Obama, ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. In response, Obama included openly gay athletes as part of the official U.S. delegation to Sochi. “In my opinion, Putin is right on these issues,” Graham writes. “Our president and his attorney general have turned their backs on God and His standards, and many in the Congress are following the administration’s lead.
Compasio. DoSomething1 - YouTube. Morning Joe: Working together on Capitol Hill for the common good. Which Way Home. Mosaic Family Services, Inc. Land acquired over past decade could have produced food for a billion people. International land investors and biofuel producers have taken over land around the world that could feed nearly 1 billion people. Analysis by Oxfam of several thousand land deals completed in the last decade shows that an area eight times the size of the UK has been left idle by speculators or is being used largely to grow biofuels for US or European vehicles.
In a report, published on Thursday, Oxfam says the global land rush is out of control and urges the World Bank to freeze its investments in large-scale land acquisitions to send a strong signal to global investors to stop "land grabs". Compasio - Donor Tools. MSF's critique of humanitarian relief: a practical response. Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) created some welcome upheaval in the international humanitarian discourse recently, with their compelling Where is Everyone?
Report, lamenting the scarcity of humanitarian agencies operating in difficult environments. As an organisation forged from righteous anger, MSF has never reserved criticism for governments and warring parties alone. Often its barbs are directed horizontally at humanitarian counterparts, and this one clearly stung. Despite the United Nations receiving the brunt of the criticism, and the authors not excluding MSF itself from blame, many in the NGO community felt compelled to push back.
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YANGON, Myanmar, May 16 (UNHCR) – As Cyclone Mahasen approaches the coasts of Myanmar and Bangladesh, more than 35,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar's Rakhine state have been moved to safer locations under a government evacuation plan. Many more have moved spontaneously into local communities to avoid the brunt of the storm, which is expected to hit land on Thursday night.