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- UN, Syria continue negotiating over aid delivery
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is pushing back against Syrian efforts to control the distribution of humanitarian aid throughout the country. "OCHA can't allow the Syrian government to use [aid] as a way to get people [they want to arrest] or to deliver aid only to government supporters," said an unnamed diplomat quoted by Reuters. Meanwhile, no one was hurt after a bullet struck a UN vehicle near the city of Homs. Reuters (5/14), CNBC/Reuters (5/14)      - UN urges prosecution for captured LRA commander
The top United Nations official for children and armed conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, on Monday urged Ugandan authorities to prosecute Caesar Acellam, the high-ranking commander in warlord Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army who was arrested over the weekend. The country is weighing amnesty for Acellam. "The arrest and subsequent prosecution of Acellam would send a strong message to the LRA leadership that they will be held accountable for" child rights violations, among other alleged crimes, said Coomaraswamy. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (5/15), Reuters (5/12) - WHO prepares to call polio a worldwide emergency
The World Health Organization is expected next week to pass a resolution calling polio a global health emergency despite inroads against the disease in India, where wild polio has been halted. New cases increased significantly last year in three polio-endemic countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, which recorded increases of 220%, 185% and 37%, respectively. The Times of India (5/15) - Food security is needed to sustain Africa's growth
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa will not be sustainable unless the region's governments grow food more efficiently and feed the one-fourth of the population living in hunger, according to a report published today by the United Nations Development Programme. "Impressive GDP growth rates in Africa have not translated into the elimination of hunger and malnutrition," said Helen Clark, UNDP administrator. Reuters (5/15), The Guardian (London) (5/15) - Assessing global health begins with data
Making predictions and policy related to global health issues is made more complicated by a difficulty in collecting and verifying data, according to this analysis. "Two-thirds of deaths in the world are not registered. And a third of births are also not registered. ... If you do a global health estimate, you've got to have the data. And getting data is a big problem," says World Health Organization statistics chief Ties Boerma. Reuters (5/14) - A new view of malaria for new American mother
Elizabeth Gore, executive director of global partnerships for the United Nations Foundation, writes of experiencing Mother's Day far from her own child while helping African mothers who have lost children to malaria. "The thought of grabbing my daughter and running from harm for a week or more is frightening. But the prospect of finally reaching safety and then losing her to one mosquito bite is incomprehensible," writes Gore from the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. She asks readers to buy a $10 bed net to protect a refugee mother and child through the Nothing But Nets campaign. The Huffington Post/Global Motherhood (5/14)  | - Africa conservation area is a grand experiment
Five countries in southern Africa -- Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe —- are working together to create one the most ambitious ecological projects in the world: a conservation area that would protect some of the region's most threatened wildlife and help impoverished residents. The Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area is set to exceed 170,000 square miles in size. Yale Environment 360 (5/14) | | | Position Title | Company Name | Location | | International Advance Trip Officer | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Senior Specialist, Nutrition | Save the Children | Washington, DC | | Vice President, Partnerships | The Pop Tech Institute | Brooklyn, NY | | Officer, Online Communications, Nothing But Nets | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Program Officer | Open Society Foundations | New York, NY | | Program Officer | Open Society Foundations | New York , NY | | | Click here to view more job listings. | | |
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