By: Passy Mubalama [Testimonies for this post were collected by email or face-to-face interviews in French and all links forward to French articles] Illegal abortion is a common practice in several provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, particularly in Goma, Nord-Kivu, where the number of deaths recorded as caused by these back-door procedures is increasing day by day at a [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra In the International Museum of Women, the current online exhibit is all about mothers. MAMA: Motherhood around the Globe explores the different aspects of motherhood through video interviews to women in Nigeria, Kenya, Afghanistan, USA, Colombia, Hungary, China and Norway. Lusina from Kenya is one of the interviewed mothers for IMOW Mama to Be is the section on the expectations around motherhood [...]
BY JACOB PATTERSON-STEIN More Than Me is an organization that help get girls off the street and into school in one of the poorest slums in the world in Liberia, West Africa. This is a repost from their latest blogpost. This is a guest post from Billy Vierbuchen, a More than Me volunteer that recently joined Katie on the ground [...]
By: Aparna Ray Today, e-waste, electronic waste or electronic scrap, is ‘one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world’ and environmentalists everywhere are justifiably concerned about their ‘end of life’ disposal. In India too, the concern about e-waste management has been rising steadily over the years, especially given the huge leap in the quantum of e-waste in the country over the last [...]
By: Juliana Rincón Parra This post is part of our special coverage Japan Earthquake 2011. Journalist Lisa Katayama and filmmaker Jason Wishnow are documenting the lives of people dealing with radiation in a post-earthquake Japan. In We Are All Radioactive, they are including 50% footage made by themselves in the areas around Fukushima Power Plant that had a meltdown after the earthquake [...]
By: Cyclerecycle In 2004 there were 105 million bicycles manufactured globally; thats one for every 67 people on the planet. A truly amazing statistic. More interestingly, these bicycles were produced by China, India, the European Union, Taiwan, and Japan (87%). These statistics raise more questions than they answer, and in some respects, are a cause for concern. Firstly, your brand [...]
By: Barry Rodriguez My translator Denis and I walked down the dusty road to Chambrun, passing a few goats picking their way through the thorny scrub. The sun was high, and lizards darted across the road looking for shade. After stepping through a flimsy fence made of cacti and barbed wire, Denis and I began asking villagers where we could find [...]
January 12th 2010. An earthquake struck the already under-developed nation of Haiti. Over the last two years, aid workers have visited this nation with the desire to stand along side the Haitians and help as they attempt to rebuild their country. The damage extends far past the capital city of Port-au-Prince, the epicenter of the earthquake. Many surrounding communities have [...]
Written by Abdoulaye Bah Translated by: Lova Rakotomalala Lack of access to care for HIV positive people has been well documented on the African continent. Many initiatives strive to show that things could improve with collective effort, and among them is the Drug Resource Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) program. DREAM was created in 2002 by the Sant’Egidio Community in Mozambique, and takes a comprehensive approach to [...]
By: Mark Hackett of Operation Broken Silence Right now, over one billion people on the planet do not have access to clean, safe drinking water. That is about one in seven of us. The obvious health consequences of this extremely high number was made even more apparent by a recent United Nations report, which stated that lack of clean water [...]
