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	October 12, 2012 | News covering the UN and the world Sign up  |  E-Mail this  |  Donate Research reveals role of human travel in spread of malaria Researchers have tracked the movements of 15 million Kenyans through their cellphones over the course of a year in an effort to map the spread of malaria, indicating where control efforts should be stepped up, and where such efforts would have little impact. But the study also suggests that mosquito control is only part of the solution: where people went, so did the disease. "There's a big danger of people damaging control-programs by traveling and bringing parasites in with them," said Caroline Buckee of the Harvard School of Public Health. National Public Radio/Shots blog (10/11), New Scientist (10/11)      UN report: Rwanda supported DR Congo rebels  UNESCO is struggling but not closing, Bokova says  World Bank's Kim outlines reforms  Inroads seen in India against child marriage  Price placed on saving animals from extinction  Computer combat threatens "cyber-Pearl Harbor"  Career Center  Skip to a section:  United Nations | Spotlight: U.S.-UN relations | Health & Development | Women & Girls | Climate and Energy | Peacekeeping and Security What do girls think about International #DayoftheGirl? @GirlUp Teen Advisor Annie Gersh will tell you: http://gates.ly/Pqgm2F #CATAPULT" @GatesFoundation "We need to reverse that trend and redouble our global efforts to support the education, freedom and health of adolescent girls around the world." UN Dispatch UN report: Rwanda supported DR Congo rebels A report slated to be delivered today to the United Nations sanctions committee rebuts denials by Rwanda regarding its alleged assistance of M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The reputation of Rwanda President Paul Kagame has been tarnished by the findings, while his authoritarian policies and smothering of dissent are diminishing development gains, argues David Smith. The Wall Street Journal (10/11), The Guardian (London) (10/10)      Other News Iranian rights violations are documented in UN report Reuters (10/11)      UNHCR concerned over Australia's planned Manus Island refugee center The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (10/12)      Qatar to UN: Supply Syrian rebels with weapons, money ABC News/The Associated Press (10/12)      UN official: Cote d'Ivoire must release findings of probe into postelection violence Houston Chronicle/The Associated Press (10/11)      UNESCO is struggling but not closing, Bokova says Irina Bokova, head of UNESCO, said on Tuesday that the yearlong U.S. suspension of funding -- $72 million, or some 22% of its budget -- is "crippling our capacity to deliver." A hiring freeze, spending cuts and fundraising have not offset the loss in funding, which was a U.S. response to the UN agency offering the Palestinians full membership. "We're not closing UNESCO," Bokova said, "but member states will have to rethink the way forward." Reuters (10/11), The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (10/11)      World Bank's Kim outlines reforms A decade of development gains in the world's poorest nations are at risk of being reversed, requiring renewed focus from an international community that is distracted by crises in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. At a meeting in Japan, Kim suggested reforms for transforming the bank from an institution "dreaming of a world free of poverty to achieving it." The Wall Street Journal (10/11), Devex.com/The Development Newswire blog (10/12)      Wyclef Jean's Haiti charity is effectively closed Little can be found in Haiti from the efforts of Yéle, the high-profile charity founded by Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean. An examination by The New York Times shows "that millions in donations for earthquake victims went to its own offices, salaries, consultants' fees and travel, to Mr. Jean's brother-in-law for projects never realized, to materials for temporary houses never built and to accountants dealing with its legal troubles." The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (10/11)      Other News Ghana "prayer camps" are a dead end for country's mentally ill IRINNews.org (10/4)      Inroads seen in India against child marriage While nearly half of young women in India married when they were minors, statistics show, the rate of child marriage among girls younger than 15 has been declining. Louis-Georges Arsenault, UNICEF chief in India, discusses the effects of child marriage on education and poverty, while The Christian Science Monitor profiles Rekha Kalindi, a girl from rural India who refused to marry at 12 and stayed in school. The Times of India (10/12), The Christian Science Monitor/Global News Blog (10/11), The Hindu Business Line (India)/Press Trust of India (10/12)      Other News 3 arrested in shooting of Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai The Express Tribune (Pakistan) (10/12)      Botswana court overturns law, says women may inherit property BBC (10/12)      Price placed on saving animals from extinction Governments aren't spending enough to save wildlife from human-induced extinction, according to conservationists and academics writing in the journal Science. The longer countries postpone paying for protections, costs of which are estimated at about $80 billion annually, the more expensive it will become, they write. 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