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- Call for UN action as Syria crisis reaches year
As the popular uprising in Syria passed the one-year mark a coalition of 200 NGOs from 27 countries urged Russia and China to stop blocking efforts at the United Nations to end the violence that has killed more than 8,000 people, mostly unarmed civilians. United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, was scheduled on Friday to brief the Security Council on efforts to broker a diplomatic solution to the crisis. BBC (3/15), Reuters (3/14)      - Can diplomats do comedy?
Some of the most senior UN-based ambassadors have strayed from the bounds of news conferences by doing interviews on comedy programs, often at their own peril. "No one is a choicer prey for a comic than a diplomat," Colum Lynch writes. But not all become a punchline -- this post looks at how Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Susan Rice and other UN diplomats who have tangled with professional comics. ForeignPolicy.com/Turtle Bay (3/12) - Women farmers neglected at global food peril
Among the greatest threats to global food security is the continued sidelining of women farmers. Experts gathered this week in New Delhi for the first Global Conference on Women in Agriculture noted women have fewer rights than men to buy, sell or inherit land, as well as borrow money and sell crops. AllAfrica Global Media (3/14) - How climate change imperils wealthy countries
Even if carbon emissions were to drop drastically overnight, the global effects of climate change would be "inevitable and unavoidable for the next 20 or so years," according to climate expert Saleemul Huq. The world has entered a new "third era" of global warming that is different in that it affects even rich, industrialized nations, he said. AlertNet (3/14) - Water Forum said to backtrack on rights
The language of the declaration on water policy at the close of the sixth World Water Forum falls short of reaffirming water and sanitation as human rights, according to observers, who fear governments might find in the document justification for shirking legal and financial obligations to uphold rights recognized by the UN General Assembly in 2010. The Guardian (London) (3/14) - Worry grows over Sudan's Nubans as aid stymied
As awareness grows about the plight of Nubans trapped in Sudan by fighting between government forces and rebels allied with South Sudan, pressure, too, is growing for cross-border operations to deliver urgent humanitarian aid. But Sudan continues to refuse to allow United Nations aid workers into the Nuba Mountains area. ForeignPolicy.com/Turtle Bay (3/14) - Solar panels on West Bank set for demolition
The Israeli government is slated to demolish solar panels built by nongovernmental organizations in Palestinian villages in the West Bank that are not connected to the national electricity grid. The United Nations says that, while Israel provides electricity, water and paved roads to unauthorized Jewish settlements in Area C, it rarely grants building permits to Palestinians, and demolishes homes and animal sheds. The Guardian (London) (3/14), The Christian Science Monitor (3/11) | | | Position Title | Company Name | Location | | Deputy Director, Nothing But Nets | United Nations Foundation | Washington DC, DC | | Campaign Manager | Open Society Foundations | New York , NY | | Leo Nevas Human Rights Fellow | United Nations Foundation | New York City, NY | | mHealth Technical Advisor, Evidence Financing and Policy | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Associate, Online Communications, Nothing But Nets | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Community Manager, mHealth Alliance | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | mHealth Technical Advisor, Technology Integration, Interoperability and Capacity | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Communications Director, Better World Campaign | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Raiser's Edge Database Manager | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Senior Manager, Policy and Advocacy, Shot@Life Campaign | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | | Click here to view more job listings. | | |
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