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- Rights groups ask UN to publish Darfur reports
Thousands have fled their homes in light of renewed fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan, prompting human rights groups to call upon the United Nations to publish reports on abuses. "The UN should at the very least provide regular, thorough and independent public reports on the humanitarian and human rights situation," says a statement by the 17 groups. Reuters (1/8)       - UN faces food aid decisions amid falling donations
The international financial crisis has caused donor countries to look inward, and funding levels have tumbled for the UN World Food Program, which in 2010 received only about half of the $7 billion that it requested. Consequently, aid workers must decide who is fed, and who isn't, among the 100 million people in 73 countries that the program serves. Spiegel Online (Germany) (1/7) Top five news stories selected by UN Wire readers in the past week. - Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.
- Study: Climate-change effects are unavoidable
Carbon dioxide already emitted will remain in the atmosphere for centuries, Canadian scientists say in a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Researchers warned higher sea levels and Antarctic ice melt are unavoidable even if there was an immediate switch away from the use of fossil fuels. AlertNet/Reuters (1/9) - Inflation sows political, economic jitters among BRIC nations
The world's largest emerging countries are raising interest rates, and trying novel methods to stem the rise of food prices, in a bid to combat swift-moving inflation. The so-called BRIC nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- account for nearly a fifth of the global economy and they fear the rise in food prices could sow social instability. The Wall Street Journal (1/8) - Belarus eyes more opposition targets
Belarusian authorities have indicated security services are investigating the 3-year-old son of former presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, who is in detention along with his wife. Authorities have rounded up dozen of opposition supporters and dissidents since the country's disputed December presidential elections. The New York Times (free registration) (1/9) - Blasphemy law supporters march in Pakistan
About 50,000 people took to the streets of Karachi on Sunday to protest any changes to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law, according to local authorities. Discussion over the law has intensified around the case of a woman facing the death penalty, and the assassination of the Punjab governor last week for supporting changes to the legislation. AlertNet/Reuters (1/9) - Young children in Bangladesh are kidnapped, forced to beg
Human rights campaigners in Bangladesh have helped to uncover a practice by which criminal gangs abduct children and force them to beg on the streets of the capital, Dhaka, seizing their earnings of about $10 to $20 per day. Recently at least five children between 7 and 8 years old were held for months in confined spaces, including barrels, and deprived of food before being sent out on the streets. The Guardian (London) (1/9) - Israel pursues settlements in disputed territories
Israel has leveled part of a landmark East Jerusalem hotel, which Palestinians claim was illegally seized in 1967, in order to make way for a new Jewish settlement. Similar construction in the occupied West Bank has spurred a boycott by some 165 Israeli professors of a university in the Ariel settlement. BBC (1/9) , Al-Jazeera (1/9)
- This week marks the anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. What issue in Haiti do you think still needs the most attention?
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