The Other World News

ABOUT HUMANITARIAN AID, DEVELOPMENT, RELIEF OPERATIONS AND TROUBLE SPOTS.

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2007/04/other-news-aggregator.html

Two weeks ago, readers sent in nominations for the "2009 Humanity's Shame List" , a Top-10 highlighting the last year's events we, humanity as a whole, should be ashamed of. I pulled all sugges...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2010/01/2009-humanitys-shame-list-results-are.html

A week ago, I called for nominations for the "2009 Humanity's Shame List" , a top-10 highlighting the last year's events we, humanity as a whole, should be ashamed of. As of now, until December...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-humanitys-shame-list-vote-now.html

IFPRI , the International Food Policy Research Institute, released its 2009 Global Hunger Index report . The report is the fourth in an annual series, that records the state of hunger both on ...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2009/12/feature-2009-global-hunger-index.html

ABOUT HUMANITARIAN AID, DEVELOPMENT, RELIEF OPERATIONS AND TROUBLE SPOTS.

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/billion-for-billion.html

Fewer and fewer people who believe "Climate Change" is fiction. The hard evidence the climate *is* changing, is in our face: Hurricanes and typhoons become more frequent and more violent. Exten...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-action-day-drought-and-floods-hit.html

OCHA (the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) launches the "World Humanitarian Day" . It is dedicated to "thousands of aid workers who have devoted their lives to humanitari...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2009/08/feature-world-humanitarian-day-on.html

Today, March 8th is International Women's Day . While in the past decennia we witnessed a significant change in attitude both in women's and society's opinion about women's equality and emancipat...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/feature-international-womens-day.html

At the end of the year, MSF (Doctors Without Borders) used to publish their "top 10 under-reported crisis" . Now, their hit list is called plainly "Top 10 Humanitarian Crisis". No "under-repo...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/feature-msf-humanitarian-crisis-of-2008.html

December 1st marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day . While the global percentage of adults living with HIV has leveled off since 2000, 33 million people are still living with the virus....

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2008/11/world-aids-day.html

The arguments for a bailout to avoid systemic collapse are of course genuine and persuasive, but so are the arguments for aid and against standing by and allowing a child to die every 3 secon...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2008/10/feature-how-much-is-700-billion-really.html

What would it cost to wipe out world poverty, guarantee universal health care, stabilise population growth and roll back the ravages of global warming? About $190 billion a year, or the equival...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2008/03/feature-cost-of-saving-planet-us190.html

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors without Borders) just published the Top Ten Under-reported humanitarian stories of the year 2007 : Displaced fleeing war in Somalia face a humanitarian...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/feature-2007-most-underreported.html

Unicef published the pictures of the year , snapshots of children around the world. This picture shows a girl on her birthday, living near a waste dump in Manila (Philippines). Picture courtesy...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2007/12/feature-unicef-pictures-of-2007.html

The UN released the "Stories the world should hear more about ", for the year 2006. Journalists are often inundated with stories, all competing for their -and the public's- attention. The aim o...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2007/06/feature-ten-stories-world-should-hear.html

MSF (Doctors Without Borders) published the Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2006 : The current conflict in Somalia may generate fleeting worldwide attention, but the abysma...

http://theotherworldnews.blogspot.com/2007/04/feature.html