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HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: Health workers in Haiti on mission to thwart spread of Zika
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Issues and Analysis
DEVELOPMENT: Western do-gooders need to resist the allure of ‘exotic problems’
By: Courtney E Martin 23 April 2016 TheGuardian Problems in countries far from home can somehow seem far easier to solve, says Courtney Martin....
HAITI/DEVELOPMENT: Don’t Dump Peanuts on Haiti, Campaigners Tell the US
Published 2 May 2016 TeleSur Ostensibly a donation, flooding Haiti with peanuts could wipe out the country's struggling domestic producers. As part...
AFGHANISTAN/ON THE MEDIA: Threatened with death for working on TV
By Yalda Hakim 29 April 2016 BBC When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in the 1990s they were quick to ban television, along with music...
DEVELOPMENT: Opinion: Increasing Productivity Key to Revive Growth and Support Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
By Shamshad Akhtar IPS The author is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. She has been the UN’s...
ON THE MEDIA: How We Can Keep Press Freedom from Withering Away?
By Farhana Haque Rahman IPS While a free press means that a journalist has rights, it does not mean that she or he is right. This article forms...
DEVELOPMENT: UN Predicts 40 Percent Water Shortfall by 2030
By Thalif Deen IPS UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 2016 (IPS) - Ten presidents and prime ministers from around the world will work together to resolve the...
ON THE MEDIA: Violence Against Women Journalists Threatens Media Freedom
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage IPS NEW YORK, Apr 28 2016 (IPS) - For women journalists, violence and intimidation don’t just happen in conflict...
DEVELOPMENT/ON THE MEDIA: IF IT HAD HAPPENED OVER HERE
14TH MAR 2016 Tumblr How would it sound, if African media reported US elections in the same tone as Western media report on polls in Africa and...
DEVELOPMENT: Secret aid worker: is humanitarian work a career for escapists?
By: Secret aid worker 23 February 2016 TheGuardian The grass is always greener elsewhere for western expats, says one development worker....
ON THE MEDIA: If It Happened There: Death of Hard-Line Jurist Throws Regime Into Chaos
By Joshua Keating FEB. 17 2016 Slatest WASHINGTON, United States—The unexpected death of a hard-line conservative jurist on America’s...
DEVELOPMENT: Secret aid worker: who will save the white saviours from themselves?
By: Secret aid worker 19 April 2016 TheGuardian I see subtle forms of racism all around me. Others call it charity When one lives...