| |  | |  Grim prospects for 2.4 million trafficked humans While some 17% of the 2.4 million people trafficked annually are forced to perform labor, nearly all the rest are exploited as sexual slaves, said Yuri Fedotov, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Human trafficking is a $32 billion per year business in which 2 out of every 3 victims are women, he said, and only 1 out of every 100 victims is ever rescued. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (4/3)     
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|  | "By virtue of its permanent seat, the United States, along with the other P-5, has had many more chances than the non-elected members to hold court at Turtle Bay. Over the next month, we can expect to see the Council focus on several areas, based on the American presidency." UN Dispatch | |
- UN peacekeeping mission prepares for Syria
 A team of United Nations peacekeepers made up of up to 250 unarmed observers is poised to touch down in Syria within the next two days as part of the six-part peace plan put forward by Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy to the country. The success of the scheduled April 10 cease-fire depends largely on Russia, say diplomats, as President Bashar Assad is not expected to comply fully with his pledge to stop military operations and withdraw security forces from population centers. Al-Jazeera (4/3), Reuters (4/4) - Aid work is suspended in Mali after mass looting
Humanitarian work in the northern territories of Mali has effectively stopped after Tuareg rebels and Islamist militants reportedly looted the offices of the United Nations and various nongovernmental organizations. The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss the situation, and the World Food Program said its food warehouses had been robbed. IRINNews.org (4/3), Google/Agence France-Presse (4/3) - Argentina trafficking case is emblematic for region
The work over the past decade of an Argentinian mother whose daughter was abducted and allegedly sold to traffickers, who forced her into prostitution, has become a symbol of the fight against human trafficking not only in Argentina, but much of South America. Susana Trimarco has survived murder attempts and founded an organization that has helped rescue hundreds of victims of sexual exploitation. BBC (4/2) - Protests spread over child marriage in Morocco
Women's rights activists in Morocco were outraged at the invitation of an accused rapist to a roundtable discussion on child marriage. The invitation to a man who reportedly forced 16-year-old Amina Filali to marry him after he had raped her is being presented by activists as further evidence of unwillingness by the state to halt the surge in child marriages, estimated at more than 41,000 in 2010. Filali killed herself after a court ordered she wed. The Guardian (London) (4/3)  | - Sustainable Energy For All at Rio+20
 Former Sierra Club executive director and chairman Carl Pope is pleased to see the Sustainable Energy For All campaign on the agenda at the upcoming Rio+20 global climate conference. "Energy access for all is a huge opportunity for joint collaboration that could put two billion people on the pathway to a renewable energy future, greatly shaking the monopoly that currently empowered coal and oil," Pope writes. The Huffington Post/Green blog (4/3) - Satellite imagery is used in Kenya to aid pastoralists
An early-warning system backed by satellite technology is providing herders in the drought-stricken Turkana district of Kenya with a real-time map of forage and water conditions, and could be implemented throughout the entire country. Satellite images generated by NASA identify water sources, and villagers use mobile phones to record data about water levels and the numbers of households using specific watering holes, as well as the particular kind of livestock. AlertNet (4/3) - Progress in African democracy is coming in waves
While observers and academic research point to a gradual erosion of democratic standards throughout Africa, the continent has come a long way since 1990, and nearly all of the continent's 1 billion people expect to vote in regular national polls. Today, only one state, Eritrea, does not hold elections. The Economist (3/31) - Self-immolations spotlight China's Tibet policies
More than 33 Tibetans have set themselves on fire in a recent wave of resistance to Chinese rule, which has intensified since protests swept the region in 2008, leading to hundreds of deaths and the arrests of thousands. A photo essay depicts some of the protests against Chinese measures seen as a systematic attempt to destroy Tibetan national identity. The Washington Post (4/1) | | | Position Title | Company Name | Location | | Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum Program Associate (Africa) | Social Science Research Council | Brooklyn , 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 | | Middle East and North Africa Advocacy and Communications Director | Human Rights Watch | (Based in the MENA region, flexible), Lebanon | | 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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