Archive for November, 2006
« Previous EntriesUrbanizing Senegal
Saturday, November 25th, 2006Urbanzation is changing the city of Dakar
and the countryside of Senegal. A collection of photo essays on the Washington
Post by Michael Robinson Chavez captures some of the result of this
migration.
Sitting on the square in Dakar, Senegal many years ago I had a conversation with a young man who sat beside me to talk. [...]
Somalia Ignored
Friday, November 24th, 2006Somalia, long ignored by the international
community, can no longer be ignored according Stanley A. Weiss in the
International Herald Tribune.
Somalia has been ignored or treated as if it were of little strategic consequence. But that attitude cannot continue. If the suffering of the people of Somalia isn’t enough to justify international attention, the strategic [...]
Information to Save Lives
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006A new report from the UN says thousands of
children die soon after birth, deaths that are preventable with inexpensive
intervention.
Up to half a million African babies die on the day they are born — most at home and uncounted. WorldHealthOrganizatioin
Where mothers have information and basic health care, the risk of losing their newborn in the first [...]
A Science and Religion Free for All–George Johnson report in NY Times
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Writer George Johnson profiles a
a forum this month at the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. as a free for all between
science and religion.
…the world needs to wake up from its long night-mare of religious belief…–Steven WeinbergNY Times
A forum discussing science and religion at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies this month became [...]
Chad and the Revenge of Genocide
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Nicholas Kristof presents a chilling and
disturbing conversation he had with a wounded 15-year-old Sudanese boy in
Chad.
A wounded 15-year-old youth in Chad told Nicholas Kristof, columnist for the New York Times, he wishes to kill all Arabs. The boy was wounded by merciless Janjaweed militia. They murdered his father and shot him. They [...]
Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the Nobel Peace Prize
Sunday, November 19th, 2006Dr. Muhammad Yunus told an audience tonight
in Washington, D.C. that peace is inextricably connected with
poverty.
(I attended a dinner to honor Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and Nobel Laureate. Dr. Yunus spoke about the role of micro-lending enabling people to emerge from poverty.)
Peace is inextricably connected to poverty, according to Dr. Muhammad Yunus. [...]
Global Media–The Landscape Has Changed
Sunday, November 19th, 2006The proliferation of media
outlets has changed the lenses through which audiences view the world,
especially U.S. policy and the words and deeds of leaders, according to Lawrence
Pintak, director of the Adham Center for Electronic Journalism at The American
University in Cairo.
There used to be a time when the U.S. media wrote the global narrative.The world saw itself [...]
Nothing But Nets
Friday, November 17th, 2006A new partnership between
“sacred” and “secular” designed to save lives has been
launched.
Malaria kills. Send a net. Save a life.
Acting on this simple message can save the lives of millions of children who are infected with malaria. A child dies every thirty seconds from the disease which is preventable and can be treated with [...]
Invisible Children
Thursday, November 16th, 2006Nightly children in northern
Uganda leave home to commute to a safe sleeping place in the center of nearby
city neighborhoods to avoid forced conscription into the Lord’s Resistance Army
or sex slavery.
(Updated 2:55 P.M. November 12, 2006)
Jan Egeland, Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator for the United Nations was unsuccessful today in securing release of women and children held as [...]
Faith and the Middle Ground of Social Policy
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006Moderate voices have been
heard.
People really care about right and wrong more than right and left, and their antennae were up about corruption and the war in Iraq and kitchen-table moral issues — health care and poverty– Alexia KelleyWashingtonPost
Religious moderates are awakening and finding their voice. Alan Cooperman examines the influence of the religious [...]
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