Burundi: Stop Deporting
Rwandan Asylum Seekers
02 Dec 2009 04:00:50 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch
(Bujumbura) - Burundi's government should
immediately reverse a new policy of deporting Rwandan asylum seekers without considering their cases, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 27, 2009, ...
GLOBAL: How not to fight over scarce resources
01 Dec 2009 19:38:19 GMT
Source: IRIN
In all the talk about adapting to climate change, "scant attention" is being paid to "the dangers of ...
[adaptation strategies] going astray in fragile and conflict-affected" countries, warned a report released on 28 November.
Congo ex-warlord held in Rwanda seeks release
01 Dec 2009 19:32:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
KIGALI, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Congolese warlord Laurent Nkunda said on Tuesday they had filed a motion in Rwanda's Supreme Court seeking his release from house arrest.
Nkunda has been ...
Eritrea denies aiding Somalia's Islamist rebels
01 Dec 2009 18:24:49 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Eritrean envoy says no justification for UN sanctions
* Envoy urges UN council to take up its Ethiopia dispute
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Eritrea's U.N. envoy ...
EU extends Niger talks deadline - sources
01 Dec 2009 17:47:29 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Five-day extension to deadline in constitutional crisis
* Niger envoy now due in Brussels by Dec. 8 - sources
NIAMEY, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The European Union has extended until next week a ...
South Africa to expand AIDS treatment - Zuma
01 Dec 2009 17:24:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
* S.Africa to roll out ARVs to more HIV-positive people
* Zuma says "significantly larger" numbers to be treated
* Effective from April 2010
(Adds advocacy group, AIDS expert's ...
ZIMBABWE: Expats not going home yet
01 Dec 2009 17:17:09 GMT
Source: IRIN
Zimbabwean professionals in the UK say they will need to see real change before they would even consider going home, despite South
Africa's ongoing attempts to resolve the disputes between the bickering partners in Zimbabwe's unity government.
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HIV and AIDS in a Time of Hunger
01 Dec 2009 22:16:00 GMT
Source: Concern Worldwide
By Breda Gahan
NEW YORK (December 1, 2009)— Almost ten years ago, in 2001, the UN convened an historic session on HIV and AIDS, at which 189 member states adopted a Declaration of Commitment to ...
UMCOR Hotline for December 1, 2009
01 Dec 2009 20:15:00 GMT
Source: United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) - USA
In Today's Hotline: Read how UMCOR is responding to needs around the world:
CHILE: DISASTER RESPONSE TRAINING
KENYA: EDUCATION GIVES HOPE TO CHILDREN ...
World AIDS Day: Protecting youth in Liberia
01 Dec 2009 17:06:37 GMT
Source: Merlin - UK
Meet Pauline, a Nurse Counsellor at a Merlin-supported youth centre in Monrovia, Liberia. On World AIDS Day, we chat with Pauline as she carries out her work with young people at risk of
HIV.
Pauline Wleh is in her late forties and has been a Registered ...
AmeriCares Honors World AIDS Day
01 Dec 2009 16:50:40 GMT
Source: AmeriCares
AmeriCares
fights HIV and AIDS in Malawi, Romania, Haiti and other hard hit places around the world. Read more about these lifesaving programs.
Rise in HIV and AIDS cases among older Africans
01 Dec 2009 11:47:00 GMT
Source: HelpAge International - UK
A new report, The AIDS 2009 Epidemic Update, by UNAIDS and WHO reveals that the majority of new HIV and AIDS infections in sub-Saharan Africa are among older heterosexual couples.
This is in spite ...
Catholics come to
Copenhagen for climate justice
01 Dec 2009 11:24:00 GMT
Source: Caritas Internationalis
Catholic church leaders, supporters, aid agencies and advocacy groups are joining forces to urge world leaders for climate justice at
talks in Copenhagen.
Tutu: HIV is not statistical
01 Dec 2009 08:57:23 GMT
Source: DanChurchAid - Denmark
All of these
people are not statistics. This is the child of somebody, it is the mother of some child. It is the father of a family.†A major religious leader says the world can no longer think
of HIV in developing countries as a problem that sits in isolation from other countries.
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