Features from OneWorld UK
24.11.2009
Gadhimai Mela in Nepal will take place on 24 November, whether activists, sympathisers and critics cry themselves hoarse or not. Setting aside the visual repulsion, the macabre excess and the gluttony for slaughter, Rabi Thapa investigates the logistical details involved in managing such an epic event.
more...Related topics/regions: [Nepal] [Religion] Image: Nepal: the goddess beckons (© Himal magazine)
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23.11.2009
Scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight – creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5,000 metres below the ocean waves.
more...Related topics/regions: [Science] [Oceans] [Animals] Image: A magnified crustacean, a tiny copepod collected this year from the Atlantic abyss (© Bünzow/Corgosinho)
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19.11.2009
World leaders and negotiators will meet in Copenhagen in December to discuss the future of our planet. As the debate intensifies, the New Statesman’s panel of environmental experts have chosen their heroes and villains – politicians, activists, companies and institutions.
more...Related topics/regions: [United Kingdom] [Environmental activism] [Environment] Image: Dr RK Pachauri
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16.11.2009
Is brutality in the name of patriotism more justified than violence in the name of parallel ideologies, be it Maoism, communalism, or Hindu nationalism, asks Dilip Simeon.
more...Related topics/regions: [India] [Conflict] [Politics] |
12.11.2009
A season of fear has returned to Zimbabwe, following Morgan Tsvangirai’s decision to 'disengage' from the country's dysfunctional Government of National Unity, writes Mary Ndlovu.
more...Related topics/regions: [Zimbabwe] [Politics] |
10.11.2009
While Ethiopia endures a devastating famine, Meles Zenawi's regime has been downplaying and double-talking around the crisis, writes Alemayehu G. Mariam.
more...Related topics/regions: [Ethiopia] [Food] [Agriculture] |
15.10.2009
Withdrawal of Bangladesh army troops has begun in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. There is tension as the hill people also demand the removal of Bengalis from the region. Retired Brigadier General Hannan Shah discusses the situation.
more...Related topics/regions: [Bangladesh] [Politics] |
19.08.2009
An international water conference this week wants to ensure that rural and poor people have access to clean water even as climate and population pressures drive the number of those in need beyond 1 billion.
more...+ Progressio takes “Just Add Water” message to Stockholm’s World Water Week From: Progressio, OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Water/sanitation] [Poverty] [Population] Image: Drinking water in Malawi © United Nations Development Programme
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29.06.2009
While the world watches the stand-off between the Iranian government and protesters, the end-game begins in Nigeria between its own angry mob of citizens railing against the establishment. Nicholas Benequista reports.
more...Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] [Democracy] [Civil society] Image: A young boy fetches water in front of the National Electoral Commission's office in Kano, the capital of Nigeria's second largest state. In 2007, thousands of residents surrounded these offices to express their distrust of the vote counting. Nigeria's National Assembly is currently considering reforms that might help curtail election-rigging. (Photo: Nicholas Benequista)
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25.05.2009
Economic troubles have dominated 2009. The Trento Festival of Economics therefore enjoys pole position in the European festival season. Its imaginative programme Identity and Global Crisis addresses questions affecting us all.
more...Related topics/regions: [Italy] [United Nations] [Economy] [Development] |
10.03.2009
Disabled women are becoming more visible in Southeast Asia's disability movement and getting their voices heard. Kuhu Das, a disabled woman activist and director of the Association of Women with Disabilities in India, tells of her struggle and how a unique project is training disabled women to be new leaders.
more...Related topics/regions: [India] [Gender] [Disability] Image: Association of Women With Disability
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10.03.2009
Large majorities in most countries say they would like their government and the UN to take an active role in preventing discrimination against women, according to an international poll.
more...Related topics/regions: [Gender] [Human rights] |
08.03.2009
Mothers, wives, widows and daughters of Iraq remain caught in the grip of a silent emergency, a new survey shows.
more...From: ReliefWeb UN OCHA Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Gender] |
04.03.2009
A film by five midwives and a doctor in Tanzania documenting the appalling conditions in which women have to give birth had remarkable effects: the government doubled the number of midwives trained each year and placed more midwives in rural areas. Brigid McConville tells the story.
more...From: Healthlink Worldwide Related topics/regions: [Tanzania] [Information & media] [Gender] [Infant mortality] Image: Midwives in Huruma, Tanzania (Photo: White Ribbon Alliance)
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03.03.2009
As the Sri Lankan government steps up its war with the Tamil Tigers, assaults on journalists are on the rise. So are suspicions that the government is complicit in these attacks, says Bob Dietz.
more...Related topics/regions: [Sri Lanka] [Justice and crime] [Information & media] |
20.11.2008
For the first time in recent memory, activists are marking World AIDS Day not by risking arrest in protests at the White House, but by lauding the next president for the hope he brings to those affected by the AIDS crisis.
more...Related topics/regions: [United States] [AIDS] Image: World AIDS Day, 1 December
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12.11.2008
Yuri Kozyrev is the winner of the Frontline Club Award for his exceptional coverage of the Iraq war - a comprehensive, unique, honest portrait of the people that it has involved.
more...More Kozyrev photos Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Information & media] Image: Iraq: by Yuri Kozyrev
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24.09.2008
Tunisia promotes itself as a progressive nation that protects human rights, but an international media group says it aggressively silences journalists and others who challenge the policies of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and that journalists are subject to imprisonment, assault, harassment, and censorship.
more...Related topics/regions: [Tunisia] [Media] Image: Tunisia
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26.10.2004
Irresponsible arms trading by some of the worlds biggest exporters is diverting money that should be used to combat poverty, Oxfam reports.
more...From: id21 Related topics/regions: [Poverty] [Finance] [Trade] [Human rights] [Arms & military] |
20.10.2004
Securing peace through bullets has stunted Angolas ability to rebuild and develop a democracy. Conciliation Resourcess report reveals important lessons for resolving other armed conflict.
more...From: Conciliation Resources Related topics/regions: [Angola] [Human rights] [Politics] [Democracy] [Conflict resolution] [Arms & military] |
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