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	May 23, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Crisis-stricken Yemen on the brink Poverty and lawlessness in Yemen, where nearly 500,000 people have been displaced by fighting, are pacing a food crisis that aid agencies warn could reach "catastrophic proportions" if donors do not do more to meet an appeal by the United Nations for humanitarian assistance. Only 43% of that funding goal has been secured. Saudi Arabia on Tuesday pledged $3.25 billion in aid but did not detail how the money would be used. The Guardian (London) (5/22), AlertNet/Reuters (5/23)      Children ensnared in eastern DR Congo violence  Donors inch toward global aid monitoring  Mozambique program aims to improve cookstoves  Mexican women finds themselves trafficked for sex  Bottom-up infrastructure and the rural poor  Some Somalis flee latest offensive against militants  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Health & Development | Spotlight: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves | Women & Girls | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security Join @BetterWorldOrg in thanking 120,000 men women fighting 4 peace security through @UNPeacekeeping. Take action! http://ow.ly/b4Koz" @GatesHealth "This is a great speech by US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is in Geneva this week for the World Health Assembly. Sebelius offers some global context to America's own struggles with providing adequate health care to women and mothers." UN Dispatch Children ensnared in eastern DR Congo violence At least 20 children have died during the recent upsurge in violence between rebel groups and government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, said UNICEF, which Tuesday condemned the killings but did not assign blame. Neighboring Uganda is preparing for the arrival of as many as 30,000 Congolese refugees. Rights groups say the violence is being fomented by regular soldiers as much as armed rebels. Los Angeles Times/World Now blog (tiered subscription model) (5/22), The Washington Post/The Associated Press (5/23), Al-Jazeera (5/22)        UN's Pillay seeks end to Zimbabwe election violence With Zimbabwe presidential elections less than a year away, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay called upon leaders to take steps to ensure that the violence that marred voting in 2008 does not happen again. Pillay is the first high commissioner for human rights to visit the country. Reuters (5/22), The Zimbabwean (5/23)      Other News UN monitors aid exchange of Syria detainees for tank The Daily Star (Lebanon) (5/23)      UN torture panel calls on Cuba to explain anti-dissident actions The Miami Herald (free registration) (5/22)      Donors inch toward global aid monitoring Two days of talks at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development yielded 10 indicators that would provide the framework for global monitoring of humanitarian assistance. It was unclear whether China, India and Brazil -- which have called for a voluntary framework -- would participate. The indicators include tracking data on untied aid, transparency, how to involve the private sector and the empowerment of women. The Guardian (London) (5/23)      Other News Gunmen abduct 5 aid personnel in northeastern Afghanistan The Guardian (London)/Reuters (5/23)      Botswana uses mobile technology to speed malaria response Mashable (5/22)      Mozambique program aims to improve cookstoves A biofuels program in Mozambique is making ethanol from waste cassava in an effort to phase out polluting charcoal while supporting local farmers and reducing deforestation. CleanStar and Novozymes' plan, announced last week, aims by 2014 to involve 2,000 small farmers and provide one-fifth of residents in Maputo, the capital, with a cleaner-burning fuel for cookstoves. ThinkProgress.org/Climate Progress blog (5/22)        Mexican women finds themselves trafficked for sex The cycle of vulnerable young women in Mexico who are forced into prostitution, then trafficked into the U.S., is depicted in this report by the BBC. The women live in fear and frequently are assaulted. BBC (5/22)        Other News Attack on Afghan school poisons 120 girls, 3 teachers Reuters (5/23)      Bottom-up infrastructure and the rural poor Infrastructure has again become the buzzword of the global development debate, but investment can sometimes bypass poor people for the benefit of powerful interests, as in impoverished Kikwit in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Different approaches are being proposed by the World Bank and Group of 20 to help the rural poor in Africa and South Asia. AlertNet/Climate Conversations blog (5/23)        Other News Water duty keeps children out of school in drought-stricken Niger The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (5/21)      Some Somalis flee latest offensive against militants Aid workers in Somalia are concerned that civilians in the Islamist-held Afgoye corridor -- with an estimated 400,000 people, the largest concentration of displaced people in the world -- could get caught in the crossfire as army and African Union troops step up assaults on rebel al-Shabaab fighters. 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