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Mark Leon Goldberg
Mark Leon Goldberg is the executive editor of UN Dispatch

Dear Sweden: How About Not Deporting Vulnerable Iraqis?

Swedish authorities plan on deporting 25 Iraqi asylum seekers later today.  This is despite the fact that the UN Refugee Agency has warned that asylum seekers originating from several provinces in Iraq should be granted refugee status under the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Huge Earthquake Strikes Pakistan

Reports are coming in fast via twitter that the US Geological Survey is confirming that a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan.  The apparent epicenter was in Southwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border.

Improving the Lives of Women in Haiti

UN Foundation CEO Kathy Calvin has an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about how some small interventions in Haiti can go a long way toward improving the health and welfare of women living in Haiti's sprawling tent cities.

Ending the Silence on The Fraudulent Vaccine-Autism Link

In a special guest post, Christopher J. Elias, president and CEO of the international nonprofit global health organization PATH, wonders why more people in the vaccine community were not celebrating when a notorious study of the Austism-Vaccine link was declared a fraud.