New York, N.Y. Syrian Refugee Crisis Straining Medical Resources As Syrians flee the conflict at home to refugee camps, U.N. aid agencies are struggling to provide much needed health services in those camps and in neighboring countries, a U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) report released on April 26 stated. Turkish doctor examines Syrian refugee child. UNHCR [...]
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World News Digest: April 24, 2013
New York, N.Y. Thousands of Kenyans Need Aid Urgently Following Flood Doctors Without Borders reports that thousands of Kenyans urgently need food, shelter, clean water and medical services following weeks of flooding in the Tana River Delta region. The global medical humanitarian organization says flooding has destroyed latrines, contaminated water sources and left nearly 7,000 [...]
World News Digest: April 22, 2013
Conference Calls on Governments to Protect Rights of LGBT Individuals New York, N.Y. Participants of a two-day international conference held in Oslo called on governments last week to protect the human rights of LGBT individuals in their country. More than 200 participants from 84 countries met on April 15 and 16 to hear testimony at the [...]
World News Digest: April 19, 2013
U.N. and Partners Call Attention to Challenges Preventing Global Immunization U.N. agencies and global health organizations called attention yesterday to the urgent need to improve delivery of vaccines and to communicate clearly the importance of immunization. They released a statement ahead of World Immunization Week. “We have seen some major advances in the development and [...]
World News Digest: April 18, 2013
New York, N.Y. New Report Says Children are the Majority of Sexual Violence Victims in War Zones. The charity Save the Children based its findings on data and testimonies from several countries including Colombia, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It’s report, Unspeakable Crimes Against Children, reveals shocking testimony and statistics. In Liberia, for [...]
Barack Obama Wins U.S. Presidential Re-Election
Washington, D.C. Projected election results show President Barack Obama has defeated his Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win another term in office. Supporters at the president’s campaign headquarters in Chicago waved flags and cheered at the news late Tuesday, which came after Obama won enough states to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to clinch [...]
Togo Women Push Sex Strike to Unseat President
Lome, Togo. The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country’s president. Women are being asked to start withholding sex from their husbands or partners as of Monday, said Isabelle Ameganvi, leader of the women’s wing of the [...]
Eyewitness: Haitian Households Caught in Cycle of Debt
New York, N.Y. I was born and raised in Haiti. I moved to the U.S. to further my studies. Haiti’s educational system is very poor; many fortunate students like me tend to move overseas once they obtained their high school diploma. When I first went to college, I was enrolled into a nursing program mainly [...]
