U.N. Helpless As Crises Rage In 10 Critical Hot Spots

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says even the U.N.’s 193 member states cannot, by themselves, help resolve these widespread conflicts.

Thalif Deen
От Thalif Deen
A street is littered with debris after a Saudi-led airstrike against Iran-allied Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, that targeted a site of a weapons cache in Yemen's capital, Monday, April 20, 2015. Airstrikes on weapons caches in Yemen's rebel-held capital on Monday caused massive explosions that shattered windows, sent residents scrambling for shelter and killed a local TV presenter. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

A street is littered with debris after a Saudi-led airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen's capital, Monday, April 20, 2015. Yemen is one of the world's hotspot that the U.N. says it is unable to address. UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is fighting a losing battle against a rash of political and humanitarian crises in 10 of the world’s

Читать далее

In ‘Deadliest Time Ever’ For Journalists, Local Reporters Face Greatest Danger: Report

From Iraq to Syria to Gaza, domestic reporters, whose names may never be known to the world, face highest death rate, Committee to Protect Journalists report reveals.

Sarah Lazare
От Sarah Lazare

The killing of international journalists reporting in war and conflict zones horrified the world and seized the media spotlight this year. A report released Tuesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists finds that 2014 has, indeed, been an "unusually" dangerous time for international journalists. However, it is local journalists—whose names

Читать далее

Эбола и ИГИЛ: обмен знаниями между ООН и религиозными организациями

В обоих случаях существуют реалии перегруженных поставщиков услуг, стремящихся реагировать в режиме реального времени на рост числа погибших и крах государственных услуг.

Azza Karam
От Azza Karam
Ebola

NEW YORK (IPS) - The simultaneity presented by the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus on one hand and militant barbarism ostensibly in the name of Islam on the other present the international development community – particularly the United Nations and international NGOs – with challenges, as well as opportunities. At first sight, the two are

Читать далее

US Isolates Troops While Australia Imposes Visa Ban On Ebola-Hit West Africa States

‘Western countries are creating mass panic which is unhelpful in containing a contagious disease like Ebola,’ Ugandan government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said.

Global Post
От Global Post

The US military has started isolating soldiers returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa and Australia became the first rich nation to impose a visa ban on the affected countries amid global anxiety about the spread of the virus. The latest measures, along with decisions by some US states to impose mandatory quarantines on health

Читать далее

Thousands More US Troops Headed To Liberia To Fight Ebola

The treatment units are supposed to be completed by December, but the latest indications are that the US military involvement there will not end with this construction.

Jason Ditz
От Jason Ditz
Ebola Military Training

Thousands of additional US troops are heading to Liberia, according to commander Major General Gary Volesky, the lead of the ongoing war on Ebola in western Africa. Volesky praised the “great team” of troops being sent to Liberia, and vowed that the forces would “stamp out Ebola” across the region. The initially stated “war goal” was to build 17

Читать далее

Nurse Held In Forced Quarantine Readies Legal Battle Against ‘Preposterous’ Ebola Protocols

‘My basic human rights are being violated,’ says Kaci Hickox, who recently treated Ebola patients Sierra Leone.

Jon Queally
От Jon Queally
nurse_ebola

After a weekend of criticism levied against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over policies of forced quarantines for health workers who have traveled back from West Africa where they were helping to fight the Ebola crisis, a nurse now being held in isolation has taken on a lawyer to make sure what has happened to her

Читать далее