Stories about Humanitarian Response from November, 2007
China: Journalist Festival
Yesterday was the journalist festival. Zengying remembers the first time he shed tears in his journalist life. The incident about a child starving to death[zh].
Haiti: Learning Through Gameing
Bryan Schaaf at Haiti Innovation thinks that video games may be a great way to raise children's awareness about international development and humanitarian issues.
Moldova: Prison Conditions
Last year, Father Bill Haymaker of Moldova Prisons documented the heartbreak and humiliation of prisoners’ lives: 20 boys living in a cell designed for 12; 18 girls packed into a...
Kazakhstan: Crying Forever for the Victims of Nuclear Test Ground
KZBlog reviews a new book by Struan Stevenson, a Scottish Conservative Member of the European Union, who has spent a lot of his career trying to bring public attention to...
Ukraine: Human Trafficking
Orange Ukraine writes about human trafficking out of Ukraine.
Iraq: The Slaughter of Armenians Continues
“Let’s just forget about those million and a half Armenians slaughtered in Turkey in 1915. For a moment. Instead, let’s talk about the slaughter of Armenians – in 2007. In...
Touring Libyan Blogs: Hospital raises an orphan and the ostrich factor
The touching story of how a hospital is raising an orphan restores Fozia Mohamed's faith in doctors. Also from Libya this week is a raging debate about prostitutes and packs harassing women in parks and public places.
Armenia: Homeless
Armenia, the blog of an ethnic Armenian from the U.S. volunteering in the country, reports on a family she encountered that will soon be homeless this winter. The blogger writes...
Uzbekistan: Outdated Agriculture
Joshua Foust reports that Uzbekistan’s embassy in London has angrily denounced the stories that children are being used (or forced) to pick cotton, and says that the legacy of authoritarianism...
Chad: French NGO Adoption Scandal
Six French NGO workers are facing prosecution after Chadian authorities thwarted a plan to "rescue" 103 children from the Chadian-Sudanese border from “certain death” by adopting them to France. French-Cameroonian blogger Le blog du Presi writes about the Zoe's Arc scandal, celebrity adoption, and a love that chokes, whatever its good intentions.
