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- UN: Don't forget child soldiers
While the controversial film "Kony2012" has turned the world's attention to the capture of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, the UN's special representative for children and armed conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, is wary of vigilantism and military action that endangers the children he has recruited to fight in the Lord's Resistance Army. "If you're going to get Kony, then do it, but also protect the children," said Coomaraswamy, who would like funds raised for Kony's capture to be spent on reintegration of child soldiers. The Guardian (London) (3/20)      - Rice: U.S. suffers with UNESCO cutoff
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday told lawmakers that the country's moratorium on UNESCO funding was doing little to thwart Palestinian efforts for greater United Nations recognition and, in fact, was hurting American interests. "We don't need to punish the entity, and we don't need to punish ourselves," Susan Rice told the foreign operations appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives. The Jerusalem Post (free registration) (3/20)  | - Sahel food crisis claims lives of Chad children
More than 2,000 children in the Kanem region of western Chad were admitted last month to nutrition treatment centers as a result of the drought and poor harvests across Africa's Sahel, where an estimated 15 million people in half a dozen countries -- more than a million children under 5 -- face malnutrition. Part of the problem in Chad is not environmental, but systemic: The country's health care system in Kanem is characterized in interviews as "dysfunctional." AlertNet (3/19), AllAfrica Global Media/IRINNews.org (3/19) - Pakistan polio failure risks not only spread, but pride
If Pakistan's faltering polio vaccination drive falls short, some 200,000 children worldwide could be at risk of contracting the virus, according to a World Health Organization official. Pakistan is especially motivated to overcome the obstacles from natural disasters, misinformation and war to finally eradicate polio after its rival, India, recently celebrated one year without any new wild polio infections. The Express Tribune (Pakistan) (3/21), Voice of America (3/20) - Cookstove program launches in Nigeria
Nigeria intends to supply 10 million households with cleaner burning cookstoves by 2020, some half a million within the next year. Radha Muthiah, executive director of the Global Alliance, said: "We feel the time is right and the time is indeed now with the launch of the Nigerian Alliance as well to arrest this silent killer in homes of half of the world population." Nearly 100,000 Nigerians die annually from diseases traced to toxic smoke from rudimentary cookstoves, or approximately 5% of the global tally, according to the Alliance. Google/Agence France-Presse (3/20)  | - Agro-forestry is drawing in rural women in Kenya
Kenyan initiatives to promote agro-forestry, farming that combines planting trees with food crops, are recruiting rural women into agriculture, a sector traditionally managed by men. Under the country's new constitution of 2010, women are granted equal access to land, and communities now manage resources such as minerals, forests, water and cultural heritage. AlertNet (3/19) - Report paints portrait of illegal timber trade
Illegal logging operations around the world generate up to $15 billion annually -- most of which goes into the pockets of organized crime gangs, and corrupt government officials, according to a report by the World Bank. Indonesia, Madagascar and parts of West Africa are hardest hit, said the report, which encouraged better enforcement of the illegal timber trade because "most forest crimes go undetected, unreported, or are ignored." BBC (3/20)  | | | | Position Title | Company Name | Location | | Middle East and North Africa Advocacy and Communications Director | Human Rights Watch | (Based in the MENA region, flexible), Lebanon | | RESEARCHER ON IRAQ AND THE UAE | Human Rights Watch | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | | Campaign Manager | Open Society Foundations | New York , NY | | Leo Nevas Human Rights Fellow | United Nations Foundation | New York City, NY | | mHealth Technical Advisor, Evidence Financing and Policy | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Associate, Online Communications, Nothing But Nets | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Community Manager, mHealth Alliance | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | mHealth Technical Advisor, Technology Integration, Interoperability and Capacity | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | Program Manager, Standards and Testing, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves | United Nations Foundation | Washington, DC | | | Click here to view more job listings. | | |
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