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allAfrica.com: InFocus » Africa: Towards Cities Without Slums

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allAfrica.com: InFocus » Africa: Towards Cities Without Slums.

Millions of people live in slums and the rapid growth of cities is compounding the problem. A meeting of ministers on housing and urban development aims to improve the lives of those living under these conditions.

UNICEF HQ’s photostream

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CAN YOU SEE ME? Edeline, 15, HaitiCAN YOU SEE ME? Caleb, 10, HaitiCAN YOU SEE ME? Edencie, 13, HaitiCAN YOU SEE ME? Fatima, 7, EthiopiaCAN YOU SEE ME? China, 15, BangladeshNEWS: Japanese children remember the quake/tsunami
NEWS: Mia Farrow promotes polio eradicationNEWS: Two years after the quakeNEWS: UNICEF supports child protection in BangladeshEMERGENCY: Sahel food crisis loomsCAN YOU SEE ME? Ali, 6 months, PakistanCAN YOU SEE ME? Jane, 16, Sierra Leone
CAN YOU SEE ME? January, 12, Democratic Republic of the CongoCAN YOU SEE ME? Susan, 7, NamibiaCAN YOU SEE ME? Aqila, 8, AfghanistanCAN YOU SEE ME? Amelie, 12, Central African RepublicCAN YOU SEE ME? Lee-Ann, 12, South AfricaCAN YOU SEE ME? Kawther, 3, Lebanon
CAN YOU SEE ME? Medina, 10, EthiopiaCAN YOU SEE ME? Mulu, 13, EthiopiaCAN YOU SEE ME? Annieli, 15, VenezuelaCAN YOU SEE ME? Wakeeb, 3 months, SudanCAN YOU SEE ME? Sergei, 15, UkraineCAN YOU SEE ME? Lawino, 9, Uganda

SOS Children’s Villages USA’s photostream

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Pambazuka – Investigations around Libya

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Pambazuka – Investigations around Libya.

The report is fairly revelatory, making two important points: first, that all sides on the ground committed war crimes with no mention at all of a potential genocide conducted by the Qaddafi forces; second, that there remains a distinct lack of clarity regarding potential NATO war crimes. Not enough can be made of these two points. They strongly infer that the rush to a NATO ‘humanitarian intervention’ might have been made on exaggerated evidence, and that NATO’s own military intervention might have been less than ‘humanitarian’ in its effects.

 

Speaking up about racism in Ireland

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Speaking up about racism.

IT WOULD be all too easy perhaps to dismiss Imran Khan’s comments about racism in Ireland as hyperbole from the race relations industry. But complacent and wrong.

Why War Isn’t Inevitable: A Science Writer Studies the Secret to Peaceful Societies | World | AlterNet

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Why War Isn’t Inevitable: A Science Writer Studies the Secret to Peaceful Societies | World | AlterNet.

Biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as we are to be violent. So what keeps humans bound by a seemingly never-ending cycle of war…

Kidnapped, gang raped, tortured, shot and dumped, but no one cares | Irish Examiner

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Kidnapped, gang raped, tortured, shot and dumped, but no one cares | Irish Examiner.

The lack of public outrage over the brutal murder of a Roma teenager raises serious questions about our values as a society, according to a senior garda.

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Xenophobia Rises from Ashes of Greek Economy – IPS ipsnews.net.

“There has been a deteriorating picture including anti-migrant attacks, the attack on a makeshift mosque, harassment of students, as well as the appearance of people flaunting neo-Nazi paraphernalia around the schools…”

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