Stories about Humanitarian Response from June, 2011
North Korea: The Food Aid Dilemma
In the Council on Foreign Relations site, Toni Johnson published an analysis on North Korea's food situation and the dilemma in sending food aid to the country.
Syria: Protesting for the Future of Children
Syria's youngest victims are speaking out in a series of heart wrenching videos which are surfacing on YouTube, detailing the horrors they and their family members have faced in days and nights of their country's revolution against Bashar Al Assad's regime. Today's Friday protests are dedicated to Syrian children and their future.
Russia: Civic Activists Launch ‘Anti-Seliger,’ Open Air Civil Society Forum
Alexey Navalny and Yevgenia Chirikova, famous civic (and digital) activists published [ru] a video-invitation to Anti-Seliger (reference to the annual event organized at Lake Seliger by pro-Kremlin youth movement “Nashi”). Anti-Seliger website [ru] describes itself as a festival of artists, bloggers, environmentalists, human rights defenders and promises 4 days of...
China: Another Self-immolation over Forced Eviction
DJH from China SMACK translated a local report and netizens’ response on another forced eviction and demolition self-immolation incident in Zhuzhou, Hunan province.
