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- UNDP: The cost of the Caribbean crime surge
While violent crime has declined in much of the world, the rate of homicides and gang violence has surged in the Caribbean, a fact that is cutting into the vital tourism industry in much of the region, according to the United Nations Development Programme's 2012 Caribbean Human Development Report. Jamaica in particular is losing an estimated $529 million a year in potential tourism revenue as its murder rate has grown fivefold over the past decade. "The report challenges governments of the English and Dutch Caribbean to action," said Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. ABC News/The Associated Press (2/8)      - Anti-impunity commission to remain in Guatemala
A special UN commission tasked with prosecuting crimes linked to drug wars in Latin America has announced that it will continue its work for another three years. "We all know that country is moving to fight against impunity, and this effort cannot rest," said Francisco Dall'Anese, chief prosecutor of the UN International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala. The Wall Street Journal (2/8) - Prosthetics for India's poor
The popularity of a low-cost customized prosthetic device, the Jaipur Foot, is helping hundreds of thousands of poor amputees in India to live normal lives. The group -- which has produced some 1.2 million limbs since the 1980s -- makes the customized legs for about $40 in materials, and an extra $110 in labor and overhead, compared with thousands of dollars in the U.S. Los Angeles Times (2/8) - Burns are among the perils of open stoves
Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, recounts a visit to the burn ward of a hospital in New Delhi, where the majority of one doctor's patients are victims of cookstove accidents -- such as clothing fires, scaldings and explosions of kerosene pumps. Such incidents outside the city are likely much greater and underreported. UN Dispatch (2/7) - Tutu speaks out against child marriage
Child marriage and other forms of discrimination against women are holding back development in India, where nearly half of women between the ages of 20 and 24 were married before the legal age of 18, said Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and chairman of The Elders, a group dedicated to addressing humanitarian issues. "It's been shown that where child marriage is in vogue, 6 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals, you can forget about," Tutu said. Reuters (2/9) - Charcoal trade harms Uganda's forests
The indiscriminate felling of trees in northern Uganda for the production of charcoal -- the "black gold" on which, with wood, some 95% of Ugandans depend -- is decimating annually more than 73,000 hectares of private forest and more than 7,000 hectares of protected forest reserves. The timber and charcoal trade are seen by many as ways out of poverty. IRINNews.org (2/7) - Putin explains Syria diplomacy
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spurned criticism of the country's veto of a UN resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, saying that people "should be given [the opportunity] to decide their fate themselves" and that the international community "cannot behave like a bull in a china shop" by seeking regime change. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said he was trying to start negotiations between the government and its opponents. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (2/9), Los Angeles Times/World Now blog (2/8) | | | Position Title | Company Name | Location | | Field Director for Membership Development | JCI (Junior Chamber International) | St. Louis, MO | | Senior Associate, Planning and Learning | United Nations Foundation | Washington DC, DC | | Administrative Assistant, shot@life | United Nations Foundation | Washington DC, DC | | Program Officer, Adolescent Girls | United Nations Foundation | Washington DC, DC | | Communications Officer, Nothing But Nets | United Nations Foundation | Washington DC, DC | | Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum Program Assistant/Coordinator | Social Science Research Council | Brooklyn , NY | | | Click here to view more job listings. | | |
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