[RED DEMOCRATICA] WHO doctor working against polio is wounded in Pakistan

 

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	July 17, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate WHO doctor working against polio is wounded in Pakistan A physician from Ghana was wounded today in Pakistan when the United Nations vehicle in which he was traveling came under attack by gunmen in Karachi amid a three-day polio vaccination campaign targeting 34 million children younger than 5. The vehicle's Pakistani driver also was injured. The campaign will not reach some 280,000 children living in tribal areas of North and South Waziristan, where Taliban militants imposed a ban on vaccines in protest of U.S. drone attacks. CNN (7/17), CNN (7/17), Time.com (7/15)      Syria refugee numbers soar, UN says  Hitting malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the gut  Mine-scarred Inner Mongolia fuels politics, unrest  A night in the most lawless city on the planet  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Health & Development | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security Statement from @WHO on serious security incident in ‪#Pakistan‬. Our thoughts are w/ the 2 ‪#polio‬ workers injured today: http://ow.ly/ciihl" @UNFoundation "Our friends at Nothing But Nets sent along this compelling story from a supporter of theirs named Nyuol Tong. Mr. Tong is a 21 year old refugee from South Sudan and current student at Duke University in the United States. In the item below, he recounts fleeing South Sudan as a child then returning to the village he left decades before." UN Dispatch Syria refugee numbers soar, UN says The number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries in need of assistance is nearly 200% more than what it was in spring, according to the United Nations, which reports that visas are being denied to Western aid workers hoping to reach an estimated 1.5 million people in Syria. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled Wednesday to ask Chinese President Hu Jintao to support for harsher measures against the regime of Bashar Assad, while Valerie Amos, the world body's humanitarian chief, warned that attacks on civilians constitute war crimes. The Seattle Times/The Associated Press (7/17), Reuters (7/16), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (7/16), The Washington Post/The Associated Press (7/17), Al-Jazeera (7/17)      Other News Security Council decries rebel attacks in eastern DR Congo Reuters (7/16)      Ban urges fair, swift Camp Ashraf relocation in Iraq The Boston Globe/The Associated Press (tiered subscription model) (7/17)      Rwanda blocks UN repatriation of fighters from DR Congo conflict Bloomberg Businessweek (7/16)      Hitting malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the gut Scientists are genetically modifying the bacteria in the guts of mosquitoes, helping reduce the presence of malaria in the insects by as much as 84% and indicating potential for reducing human infections. The results of the study were published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. Bloomberg Businessweek (7/16), DiscoverMagazine.com/Not Exactly Rocket Science blog (7/16)        Keeping children alive and educated in Nepal Nearly half of all Nepalese live in poverty, but conditions are worst in the far west where only school meals from the United Nations World Food Programme are keeping some children fed and in school. The food, grown in the country's south, is delivered over the course of several days, first by truck through the mountains, and then by mule. BBC (7/16)        Mali refugee numbers increase as nations seek solution Refugees from Mali were continuing to stream into neighboring Mauritania and Burkina Faso by the hundreds as Western and African governments weighed military intervention in the northern Mali territories -- seized by Islamist fighters -- now commonly referred to as "Africanistan." The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (7/15), The Guardian (London) (7/12)      Other News Nigeria razes Lagos slums built on stilts BBC (7/17)      Malaria researchers are zeroing in on vaccine SwissInfo (7/13)      Mine-scarred Inner Mongolia fuels politics, unrest The widescale mining of valuable minerals from the grasslands of China's Inner Mongolia has made a political star of the local Communist Party chief, Hu Chunhua. Still, the blanketing of open-pit mines has stoked unrest, especially among ethnic Mongol herders, and devastated a once-pristine landscape. The Economist (7/14)      Other News Solomon Islands is accused of skirting rules in exotic bird trade BBC (7/17)      1,000 pounds of Kenya ivory is seized at Thailand airport The Washington Post/The Associated Press (7/17)      A night in the most lawless city on the planet The Honduran city of San Pedro Sula is known as the most lawless place in a country already dubbed the murder capital of the world. 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