Trouble Sleeping
Saturday, February 11
Wednesday, June 22
Sunday, June 12
Tuesday, May 10
Sunday, May 8
Burma: Cyclone Nargis three years on
Photographs: Warisara Sornpet
On 2 May 2008, cyclone Nargis wreaked devastation across Burma, killing more than 140,000 people and affecting the lives of two million more. Since then the
charity Plan International has been working with children in the Delta region to help reduce the impact of further disasters and teach them how to be better prepared.
Guardian
Wednesday, May 4
Tuesday, May 3
Monday, May 2
Sunday, March 6
Iberian Wolf - by Rafael Marchante
An Iberian wolf looks up at a centre run by the Grupo Lobo association.
Grupo Lobo is a non-governmental association founded in 1985 to work
towards the conservation of Iberian wolves and their ecosystem in Portugal.
There are an estimated 2,000 wolves on the Iberian Peninsula, of which
300 are in Portuguese territory.
Sunday, February 20
Tuesday, February 15
Friday, January 14
Tuesday, January 11
Tuesday, December 21
Today, by The Sneaks
The Sneaks, three-piece band from Auckland, have recently released Today,their third EP. It follows You All Suck! (EP) 2005, Pep Sounds! (EP) 2007, and album The Sneaks, 2007.
The Sneaks
Thursday, December 16
Monday, December 13
Wednesday, December 8
Wednesday, December 1
Monday, November 29
Friday, November 26
Thursday, November 25
A crowd of Cambodians is pushed onto a bridge on the last day of celebrations of a water festival in Phnom Penh. Thousands of people stampeded Monday evening, on a small island in a Cambodian river, killing at least 339 people, according to Prime Minister Hun Sen. HENG SINITH
Wednesday, November 24
Green Roof?
Tuesday, November 23
Friday, November 19
Wednesday, November 17
We must protect women in Congo
The mass rape of women in Congo (Report, 25 August) illustrates the difficulty the UN faces in trying to fulfil its mandate to prioritise the protection of civilians. Civilians now account for 70% of casualties in wars and most are women and children. Sexual violence against women and girls has been part of conflicts from Rwanda and Bosnia, to Sierra Leone, Haiti, Congo and Afghanistan. In Congo a few months ago, I spoke to women who had, in effect, been used as weapons of war and who had endured horrific forms of violence. While I am haunted by memories of their suffering, I remain inspired by the courage and tenacity they show. That is why the promise of UN resolution 1325 on ending violence against women in conflict has to be fulfilled and there must be concerted international action to increase awareness of the importance of engaging with women in conflict prevention and resolution.
I therefore urge the coalition government to take these matters as seriously as Labour and Gordon Brown did when, for instance, he appointed me earlier this year as Foreign Office minister with cross-departmental responsibility for bringing coherence and direction to our work on these issues. My role was to ensure that our work was co-ordinated and strategic, so the UK was better able to support the efforts of the UN secretary general's new special representative, Margot Wallstrom.
So far the government has been silent on the matter and in spite of repeated questioning has not put forward the name of the minister who would undertake these vital tasks of ensuring that foreign policy, development and military assistance work together to ensure that international law as it applies to women and girls is respected.
Glenys Kinnock
Lab, House of Lords
Monday, November 15
Saturday, November 13
Friday, November 12
Tuesday, November 9
FGM
“If Genital Mutilation were a problem affecting men,
the matter would long be settled.”
- Waris Dirie
Monday, November 8
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