UNITED NATIONS, Jul 27 2016, ipsnews.net, by Aruna Duttoriginal - Narrow national interests are threatening to derail an upcoming UN summit which...
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEES: Narrow National Interests Threaten Historic Refugee Agreement
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AFGHANISTAN: A Rock Between Hard Places
hurstpublishers.com New Book: "A Rock Between Hard Places-Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity" by Kristian Berg Harpviken And Shahrbanou...
ON DEVELOPMENT: School out of reach for nearly one in 10 children worldwide, UNESCO says
Many children out of school live in areas of conflict, others are girls living in societies that do not advocate educating women By Sebastien Malo...
ON DEVELOPMENT: Too hot to work: global warming to cost $2 trillion in lost productivity
The first three months of 2016 have broken temperature records and 2015 was the planet's warmest year since records began in the 19th century; By...
AFGHANISTAN: Pakistan plans talks with Afghanistan, UN agency over refugees’ return
Reuters, Thursday, 30 June 2016 The number of Afghans voluntarily returning from Pakistan has plummeted this year * Pakistan has world's second...
ON DEVELOPMENT: Water security for all? We need these five organisational changes
theguardian.com, by Nick Hepworth, July 19, 2016, original The global water crisis is not driven by absolute water scarcity, but by a scarcity of...
HAITI: Murder of three deaf women in Haiti must be a starting point for change
theguardian.com, by Anna Leach, July 18, 2016, original On Saturday 11 June government ministers and campaigners attended the funeral of three...
ON DEVELOPMENT: Leaving no one (apart from migrants and refugees) behind
irinnews.org, July 25, 2016, original Ten months ago, the UN’s 2030 Agenda laid out an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals to be met over...
HAITI: U.S. Halts Funding For Haiti’s Election
July 15, 2016 By Sophie-Anne Baril, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs To download a PDF version of this article, click...
Starting Sept 6: Filmmaking Fundamentals Course – Boston – 9/6-12/13, 2016
Michael Sheridan will teach a semester long Filmmaking Fundamentals course at MassArt, Boston, this fall. Please join us or spread the word. Class...
ON THE MEDIA: Which Countries’ Terrorist Attacks Are Ignored By The U.S. Media?
By Milo Beckman, FiveThirtyEight, July 19, 2016 When a man drove a truck through a crowd in Nice, France, on Thursday night, the act of mass...
AFGHANISTAN: Deciding to Leave Afghanistan, Part 3 of 3: What happens after arrival in Europe
Afghan refugees in Germany are concerned about their asylum application status; here a group of new arrivals is led to the registration centre in...