To stop an imminent government takeover of shelters for abused women, Afghan human rights activists are fighting back, in public and behind the scenes, and rallying supporters in Afghanistan and abroad.
Earlier today, our friends at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves hosted a press telebriefing. If you are new to this issue, the MP3 below offers a good explanation of the problem of indoor household emissions and how clean cookstoves can help.
The U.S. House of Representatives today is voting on a series of amendments to the continuing budget resolution. Several of these amendments take pot shots at the United Nations and other international institutions.
At the Mobile World Congress underway in Barcelona today, the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation announced a new initiative to study how mobile health technologies may be harnessed to improve health care in Brazil's indigenous communities.
Today the Council held a closed meeting on the situation in Cambodia/Thailand, pursuant to a letter from the Cambodian Perm Rep to the Security Council President requesting the meeting.
Fans already know this, but Arcade Fire are long time advocates for Haiti. One song on their Grammy award winning album is even titled Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), which refers to this book about Paul Farmer's quest to transform global health policy through the work of his NGO Partners in Health in Haiti.