Look at the girl effect
18.07.2008
The World Trade Organisation’s last-minute push for a global trade deal threatens to throw millions more people into hunger and poverty in developing countries, a UK charity warns today.
From:
War on Want
Image: Trade - promise or threat?
18.07.2008
Economic progress in the world's 50 least developed countries has not been enough to prevent their total number of poor from increasing, says a new UN report, and rising food costs are threatening to undercut even the modest progress achieved.
Image: Make Poverty History rally, Edinburgh © Peter Armstrong
18.07.2008
How much of a cut is necessary to avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change? Lester Brown puts our leaders on the spot.
From:
Earth Policy Institute
Image: Plan B: cutting emissions drastically. Image credit: Earth Policy Institute
Nepalis have lost a monarchy and gained a former kingdom, says Bruce McCoy Owens.
Image: Nepal elections © International Rescue Committee
Today you will understand is a collection of 16 true stories related via radio interviews conducted jointly by a radio project in northern Uganda and members of the Uganda Women Writers’ Association.
Image: A woman sits by the fireplace in her hut in Oromi camp in Kitgum district, northern Uganda. Women and girls in the camps in northern Uganda also face sexual violence and exploitation by the very soldiers who are supposed to protect them. (Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN)
Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris says that although the Abu Ghraib prison photographs were “the most widely seen photographs in history”, no-one had really talked to those responsible for the abuses captured on camera. His film Standard Operating Procedure puts that right.
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Image: Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure
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