Stories: Millenium Development Goals
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Traveling to Brazil as an International Reporting Project Fellow
Sometime back I wrote in my personal blog that I am ‘NOT’ a globe-trotting mama. But here I am getting ready for my next adventure all over Brazil. I am honored and proud to officially announce that I have been selected to receive a fellowship in journalism and will be reporting from Brazil for the International...
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Emergence of Drug-Resistant TB & Funding Impedes Progress to Reduce Infections
Ban Ki- moon’s message: Two decades ago, the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis a global health emergency and soon after launched a global TB strategy that was eventually adopted by nearly every country. More than 50 million people have since been successfully treated for this highly contagious disease, and 20 million lives saved. The world has already achieved...
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Testimony and Development: Think Globally, Act Locally, Think Locally, Act Globally
I recently covered Untold Stories, a major exhibition of photographs of global urban refugees and a showcase of their testimonies, produced by the International Rescue Committee and featuring images taken by photographer Andrew O’Connell. Since the exhibition closed I’ve been thinking about the placing of these images, in the sleek, double-plus height, busy spaces of...
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Rwandans Fight Poverty While Others Fight Over the Numbers
Many miles south of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ in Kigali is the site of one of the worst massacres of the 1994 Rwandan genocide where the majority Hutu ethnic group sought to eliminate their rivals, the Tutsis. As one local, Donald Ndahiro, told me during my visit here to the Bugasera District: “This was the place they used to send...