February 2012
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Thursday 23rd February 2012
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ActionAid is providing emergency relief to thousands of people affected by the recent heavy flooding in Mozambique and Malawi, where torrential rains have destroyed essential infrastructure, killed more than 40 people and forced more than 18,000 people to flee their homes.
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Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the only international agency deploying aid workers in Syria, is negotiating with Syrian authorities and opposition fighters on a ceasefire for two-hours to bring life-saving aid to civilians hardest hit by the conflict.
Read more: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/red-cross-negotiating-syria-ceasefire-to-bring-aid/
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Tuesday 21st February 2012
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Plan International has teamed up with the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) to provide emotional support sessions to children affected by Typhoon Sendong, which has killed 1,470 and left 1,074 unaccounted for. As of January 27, Plan has given psychosocial help to some 715 children. It is expecting to reach an additional 1,000 children and 160 adults as it embarks on future...
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21 Feb 2012
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Fiji’s military regime may have lifted emergency rule after three years but press freedom has not been restored. Last month, the government led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama also introduced a decree that exempts him and ministers from defamation suits - but not other people.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/feb/16/press-freedom-fiji
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Monday 20th February 2012
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Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world’s endangered languages.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17081573
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Twenty-nine NGOs providing services ranging from alleviating food insecurity to assisting the disabled in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province have been banned, sparking fears that this could be the...
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Sunday 19th February 2012
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A Bangladeshi State Government is trying to encourage people in rural areas to use Methane, released from manure, as an alternative fuel to wood and oil (after it has been processed of course). Using Methane for cooking – and in some cases for heating and lighting too – can help prevent deforestation, as there is less need for fuel wood.
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Saturday 18th February 2012
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German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily quadruple production and drop the price significantly, increasing the availability of treatment for a disease that kills hundreds of thousands every year.
Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jkjlFfSgOCdA6OguT3oMqP5wPA4A?docId=2f7fded8a4b54f1cb575b96edbccf631
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Friday 17th February 2012
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Scores of South Asian charities struggling to curb high child-marriage rates are backing a global movement spearheaded by South African peace icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu to end the practice affecting millions of girls and women worldwide. Representatives from charities in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka gathered in New Delhi last week at the regional launch...
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Thursday 16th January 2012
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Sayyid Abdullah Hashemi, Afghanistan’s new national director of orphanages, has earned himself a reputation as a man out to clean up the nation’s children’s homes. Children’s homes are notorious for abuse and neglect where even the $1.50 a day per child allocated for food can get lost to corruption.
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Wednesday 15th February 2012
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One million more people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in Rwanda.
Read more: http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/one-million-more-out-of-poverty-in-rwanda
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Children as young as six are working full time in 120 brick factories around Kathmandu. Working in brick factories exposes workers, especially children, to irreparable health damage including acute...
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Tuesday 14th February 2012
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Jamaica has melted down about 2,000 illegal firearms as part of a programme to reduce gun trafficking and violent crime on the island.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16939794
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Six weeks after a storm brought devastation to the southern Philippines, malnutrition among children in two hard-hit cities has risen sharply.
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Monday 13th February 2012
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Via UN Wire: Women engineers in Mali, who have been making solar cookstoves since 2001, are extending their successful project to promote greener cooking in the capital, Bamako, to the entirety of the West African country.
Read more: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/women-engineers-promote-low-carbon-cooking-across-mali/
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While it is clear that Senegal was one of...
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Sunday 12th February 2012
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Last year Benin announced free treatment for malaria, and has now followed up by cracking down on fake drugs and recruiting an army of outreach health workers.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/feb/10/benin-makes-headway-against-malaria
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Malawi’s maize-growing central and southern regions have not had good rains, prompting...
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Saturday 11th February 2012
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Scientists have successfully made human brain cells in the lab that are an exact replica of genetically caused Parkinson’s disease. The breakthrough means they can now see exactly how mutations in the parkin gene cause the disease in an estimated one in 10 patients with Parkinson’s. It offers a realistic model to test new treatments on - a hurdle that has blighted...