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Welcome to the OneWorld 'miniblog'. We've called it 'Whatever' - because it's a space where our team members can share their reflections on whatever is interesting them. These posts are written in a personal capacity and do not necessarily represent the views of OneWorld... yaada, yaada, yaada.

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'Minorities face attack' as Arab Spring revolutions sour

Syria, Libya, Egypt and Yemen have moved up the international Peoples Under Threat ranking that lists countries where communities are most at risk of mass killing.
from Minority Rights Group International on May 23, 2012.

Call for arms trade treaty as Security Council fails

The courage shown by protesters in the past 12 months has been matched by a failure of leadership that makes the UN Security Council seem tired, out of step and increasingly unfit for purpose, says Amnesty International's 50th global [...]
from Amnesty on May 23, 2012.

Trauma treatment claims to cut child war distress

A new psychological intervention has been shown to more than halve the trauma experienced by child victims of war, rape and sexual abuse.
from Queens University on May 23, 2012.

Yemen on brink of hunger catastrophe

Yemen is on the brink of a catastrophic food crisis, with 10 million people – 44 per cent of the population – without enough food to eat, say NGOs.
from Save the Children on May 23, 2012.

The Occupy movement and the politics of educated hope

American society has lost its claim on democracy, says Henry A. Giroux.
from Truthout on May 23, 2012.

100,000 left without healthcare in North Darfur

Increasing restrictions imposed by the Sudanese authorities have forced a medical humanitarian organisation to suspend most of its medical activities in the conflict area of Jebel Si, in Sudan’s North Darfur state, where is the sole [...]
from MSF on May 23, 2012.

Mali instability increases health risks for children [...]

The crisis in northern Mali has dramatically increased the risks from diseases such as cholera, measles and polio and could increase maternal and infant deaths, says the UN Childrens Fund.
from UNICEF on May 23, 2012.

UK Home Office accused of breaking torture rules

Victims of torture are routinely being held in UK immigration detention centres in breach of the government’s own rules, a new investigation has revealed.
from Medical Justice on May 23, 2012.

Poor will pay for UK's nuclear white elephants, says [...]

“There is absolutely no case for subsidising nuclear power,” said Dr Gerry Wolff of the Energy Fair group, responding to the recently-published draft of the Energy Bill 2012. “The proposed ‘feed-in tariff with contracts for [...]
from Energy fair on May 23, 2012.

Bees at risk from chemicals increase

Pesticide use rose 6.5 per cent in the UK between 2005 and 2010, increasing the risk to bee populations, according to new research.
from Friends of the Earth on May 23, 2012.
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Rio ruminations

What, specifically, do you expect from next month’s Rio+20 UN conference on sustainable development, the CEO of WWF-UK was asked this week.
by Daniel on May 16, 2012.

Floods of tears

How do you take photographs of climate change? Drowning World is Gideon Mendel’s attempt. Climate sceptics will dismiss the idea that the 30 prints and three videos are about global warming and say the floods he has photographed in Australia, [...]
from Daniel Nelson on May 15, 2012.

Nigeria on stage

The Office for National Statistics has suggested that about 154,000 Nigerian-born people live in Britain; thousands of other British Nigerians were born here. Since British Nigerians are one of the country’s highest-educated groups, perhaps it [...]
from Daniel Nelson on May 6, 2012.

An Act of destruction?

It's just a whisper, and there's nothing concrete, but ... at the two-day roundtable on Climate Change Litigation, Policy and Mobilization in London on 26-27 April, a couple of NGO representatives voiced concern about the security of the Climate Change [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Apr 27, 2012.

The aid minister, the president's wife, and contraception

Ministers rarely criticise their counterparts in other countries, or their spouses. But UK aid minister Andrew Mitchell did so on Thursday, Speaking at the Royal Society in London at the launch of People and the Planet, "a major report on global [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Apr 26, 2012.

A business sob story

A UK parliamentary committee, The Guardian reports, is likely to press the government into signing an international agreement requiring minerals and mining companies to report how much tax they pay in developing countries. One of the people questioned [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Apr 25, 2012.

Stars of stage, screen and science

Campaigners can easily become despondent about the slow progress on many vital fronts, from limiting global temperature rise to curtailing pesticide use, but there are signs that the arts – particularly cinema and theatre – are [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Apr 23, 2012.

Hip op song and dance over king's injury

Sad that when I googled King Juan Carlos' hunting accident in Botswana, all the stories (at least until I got tired of scrolling down) were about criticism of the Spanish king taking a holiday at a time when the Spanish economy is in a mess (he had [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Apr 15, 2012.

Climate change? Make people smaller

After climate  geoengineering and egoengineering, comes bioengineering: a New York University professor, Matthew Liao, has come up with another possible way of tackling climate change: make people smaller. “We shall argue that human [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Apr 11, 2012.

ice, fire and Sri Lanka's civil war

Two Channel 4 documentaries presented evidence that war crimes took place at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. Now ice&fire, “exploring human rights stories through performance”, has picked up the issue and is preparing a [...]
from Daniel Nelson on Apr 6, 2012.
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