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- Council is still divided over Syria crackdown
 The second day of closed-door talks at the UN Security Council could not yield consensus among members over the escalating violence in Syria, where the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has laid siege on the city of Hama. The lack of broad support for a resolution condemning the crackdown on mostly peaceful anti-government protests has prompted countries to go it alone. Italy recalled its ambassador to Syria, and the U.S. Senate was considering imposing harsher economic sanctions against the country. CNN (8/2), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (8/2)      - Refugees prepare for landmark UN conference
A Bhutanese refugee will represent Utah's 25,000 refugees at a two-day congress in Washington, D.C. that commemorates the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Refugee Convention. Refugees will gather to share stories and experiences and to bring attention to the issue of displaced persons. The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah) (8/1) - UN is among targets in world's largest known cyber-attack
Evidence reportedly points to China as the source of an apparently unprecedented hacking campaign that over five years targeted the networks of 72 governments, companies and organizations, including the United Nations. "This is the biggest transfer of wealth in terms of intellectual property in history," said a spokesman for the McAfee security company, who added that hackers broke into UN computers in Geneva in 2008, then combed through secret data for nearly two years. Reuters (8/3)  - Q&A: Seth Berkley, CEO of GAVI
In an interview Seth Berkley, CEO of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, speaks about GAVI's $165 million campaign in India to immunize 18 million children with the pentavalent vaccine, which protects against DPT, Hepatitis B and Hib, the leading cause of bacterial meningitis. "Immunization is the single most important health intervention, often the only one in backward areas," he says. The Times of India (8/3) - Cameroon net giveaway to slow malaria
Singer-songwriter Mandy Moore is traveling next week to Cameroon as part of a campaign to distribute 8.6 million mosquito nets to help reduce the spread of malaria, which is responsible for thousands of deaths in the country. The campaign has garnered the support of a number of organizations, including UNICEF and the UN Foundation's ongoing program, Nothing But Nets. The Huffington Post (8/2) - Rights groups criticize Malaysia on child marriages
Malaysia has failed to act decisively to combat child marriage and thousands of girls under 18 are married every year, human-rights advocates say. Most child marriages take place for economic reasons and often enjoy the support of local religious and cultural leaders. AlertNet (8/3) - Workers discover Fukushima radioactive hotspot
Tokyo Electric Power has cordoned off an area at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after workers discovered a significant radioactive hotspot in a ventilator tower between two reactors. The levels are severe enough to kill an adult exposed to the area for an hour within one week. CNN (8/2) - Stakeholders seek changes to conflict minerals rules
Companies, NGOs and governments are seeking changes to incoming U.S. regulations on the trade in minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tin, tungsten, gold and other DR Congo-sourced minerals -- known collectively as conflict minerals -- are used in everyday consumer electronic products and have been used by combatants as a means to fund conflict. IRINNews.org (8/2) - Violence erupts in China's Uighur region
Violence in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region has left at least 10 people dead and dozens wounded since July 18. The violence was reportedly triggered by protests by ethnic Uighurs against detentions and land seizures by authorities. BBC (8/3)  | |  | | | | |  |  Program Officer, MHI | Open Society Institute, Budapest | Budapest, Hungary | | Brazil Director | Human Rights Watch | New York, NY | | Advisor, Gender, Diversity and Human Rights (Grade P5) | Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Washington, D.C. | Washington, DC | | Senior Technical Advisor, Regulatory Systems | Management Sciences for Health | Maputo, Mozambique | | | |  | |  |
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