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On Green-Bashing

Peter Daou - Mar 3, 2010 - 5:20 am
Climate
Crass and illogical, anti-environmentalism is at once devoid of a rational or moral foundation and a dangerous policy.

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Male Monsters -- Girl Buried Alive for Being a Girl and the World Shrugs (Trigger Warning)

Peter Daou - Feb 5, 2010 - 10:12 am
Women - Violence
The brutalization of women and girls cuts across all religious and cultural boundaries and there simply isn't sufficient public outrage about gender-based violence to spur political action.

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False Reports of UN Ordering Medical Personnel to Leave Haiti Field Hospital

Peter Daou - Jan 16, 2010 - 7:14 am
Security - Haiti
At no time did the UN order any medical team to leave their work sites in PaP. If any medical personnel evacuated it was at the request of their own organization.

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If The World Can Mobilize Like This for Haiti, Why Not for Sexual Violence in Congo?

Peter Daou - Jan 15, 2010 - 11:26 am
Haiti - DRC
Suffering is suffering. We should act decisively and immediately no matter if man made or a natural disaster.

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9-Year-Old Raped in "One of the Worst Places to be a Woman or Girl"

Peter Daou - Aug 11, 2009 - 8:34 am
Violence - Children

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Afghan Battlefield Spreading Into Residential Areas

Peter Daou - Jul 31, 2009 - 7:10 am
Afghanistan

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Can Edible Bugs Solve World Hunger?

Peter Daou - Jul 25, 2009 - 10:22 am
Hunger

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U.S. Still in Denial on Gender Violence

Peter Daou - Jul 16, 2009 - 6:09 am
Violence - Human Rights

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July Already the Deadliest Month for Foreign Troops in Afghanistan

Peter Daou - Jul 15, 2009 - 12:31 pm
Global Security - Afghanistan

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BBC: Sudan women 'lashed for trousers'

Peter Daou - Jul 13, 2009 - 9:40 am
Women - Human Rights

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