View All Blog PostsHave you been keeping up with world news this week? Check out some of our favorite stories in this week’s “What We’re Reading” post.
Thursday March 29, 2012:
- “AU, UN Announce Reduction in Darfur Mission, Condemn Border Violence,” Voice of America
- “The Place to Head Off Malaria,” Frank Smithuis and Nick White, New York Times
- “India’s Polio Win,” Kathleen Sebelius, Foreign Affairs
- “Energy efficiency means prosperity for all,” EnviroFinland
- “Kofi Annan’s office announced that Damascus has accepted his Six Point Plan to end the crisis in Syria. This is potentially a big turning point in the year long struggle in Syria, and the timing of the announcement suggests that Kofi Annan deserves much credit for the turnaround.” UN Dispatch
Friday March 30, 2012:
- “Zambia: Gates Pledges to Finance Malaria, HIV Fight,” Times of Zambia
- “Cheap Solutions for Big Problems,” Amelia Hennighausen, Bloomberg
- “Rotary works to stamp out polio around the world,” Jini Clare, Daily Herald
Monday April 2, 2012:
- “Mali Coup Leader, Facing Sanction Threats, Promises to Hold Elections,” Associated Press, New York Times
- “Prioritise health issues, UNICEF boss tells lawmakers,” Mercy Nalugo and Isaac Imaka, Daily Monitor
- “Delivering Five “Shifts” for Clean Cookstoves,” IDEO
- “Infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and cholera are all but unheard of in most developed countries, but they are a devastating feature of daily life in many parts of the developing world. Cholera, a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea and has the potential to kill within hours if left untreated, is currently endemic in many countries, and outbreaks can easily spiral out of control.” UN Dispatch
Tuesday April 3, 2012:
- “Red Cross Proposes Daily Cease-Fires in Syria,” Neil MacFarquhar and Rick Gladstone, New York Times
- “UN Security Council to Hold Emergency Meeting on Mali,” Voice of America
- “UN discusses Gross National Happiness indicator as successor to Gross Domestic Product,” Associated Press, Washington Post
- “Why Now? Women’s Empowerment in Global Development,” Brattleboro Reformer
Wednesday April 4, 2012:
- “U.N.: 2.4 million human trafficking victims,” USA Today
- “UNICEF aims to raise awareness of children at risk in Africa’s Sahel region,” CNN
- “What’s New for Rio +20?,” Carl Pope, Huffington Post
- “Timeline: How We Learned to Love—and Hate—Natural Gas,” Kate Sheppard and Alyssa Battistoni, Mother Jones