Diversity reporting award goes to story on Bhutanese refugees in New Zealand | Asia New Zealand Foundation. Rebecca Todd, a Press reporter, and Kirk Hargreaves, a news photographer, were funded by the Asia New Zealand Foundation to research the plight of Bhutanese refugees living in refugee camps in Nepal. The reporting team travelled to Nepal in February 2010 to meet refugees who were about to resettle in New Zealand under this country’s commitment to a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) programme. Rebecca Todd describes her Nepalese assignment. Photos by Kirk Hargreaves. This is an overview of the Nepalese stage of Rebecca Todd's project, which helped her win the 2010 Excellence in Diversity Reporting award for her stories on the Bhutanese family settling down in New Zealand. Around 100,000 Bhutanese refugees have been living in United Nations refugee camps in Southeastern Nepal since the early 1990s.
We wanted to illustrate – through pictures and words – the lives that these people were leaving behind and the huge amount of hope they have for their futures. By Rebecca Todd. Sources - vietnam war - cartoons, photos.
Is the United Nations racist? Ask it quietly, but ask it we must. Is the United Nations racist, either deliberately or unconsciously? Many years ago, the late Sergio Vieira de Mello, universally admired as one of the brightest and best U.N. officials, was pulled out of the Balkans because the Europeans would not accept a non-European as head of the U.N. mission there. This despite the fact that in personality, outlook and ways of thinking, he was more European than most Europeans. Their stance might have had credibility if, by the same logic, Europeans excused themselves from serving as heads of U.N. missions outside Europe. In fact, westerners dominate this category. Double standards We have seen the same double standard, rooted in the belief in the innate superiority of the westerners, in the choice of the chief executives of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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It’s a well-made and uplifting film; we applaud its success, and extend our sincere congratulations to all those involved in its production. But to the extent the film draws its moral force and emotional energy from its context, what can ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ teach us about slums? More generally, what are the strengths and limitations of cinematography as a medium for conveying complex realities about the causes and experience of mass poverty? Like this: Like Loading... Water Facts. Reflections on a Thirsty Planet for World Water Day. The Mahanadi River in Orissa, India, ebbs to a trickle during the dry season. Photo credit: James P. Blair Water, I have learned, means different things to different people.
To the novelist D. H. Lawrence, water was mysterious. To the anthropologist Loren Eiseley, water was supernatural: “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” And to the ancient Greek poet Pindar, water was quite simply “the best of all things.” But for millions of people in the developing world – especially women and girls – water means a daily struggle to trek to a source, carry fifty pounds of it home, and then hope against hope that drinking it won’t make a family member sick or die. For millions of poor farmers, water means the difference between hunger and a full belly, and between a well-nourished child and one stunted from malnutrition. For river people around the world, who rely on fish for protein and income, water is home to the aquatic life that sustains them, day in and day out. Teaching Tools.
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