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The War Weary, by Linda Webb,    2010/06/21 15:04:34
It is becoming an urgent matter that those soldiers, veterans, and first responders who experience symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are not stigmatized, dishonorably discharged, or unable to get or ask for help.    First, we must work to end this stigmatization that prevents  ... Read more ...

“Brothers At War Movie”   2010/02/23 11:17:02
“Brothers At War Movie” I watched BrothersatWarmovie.com a few nights ago and I have to say of every documentary I have ever watched about our military this one was one of the best I’ve seen.  It is the story of Jake Rademacher whose two brothers are serving with the  ... Read more ...

Rise and fall of African textile industry provides cautionary tale March 15, 2005   2009/08/17 12:40:04
 By Sapa-AP By Tom Maliti Nairobi - The African textile and clothing industry‘s near fairy tale of jobs and investments growing year after year is ending badly, turning into a cautionary fable of the challenges of global trade. When the World Trade Organisation‘s textile and  ... Read more ...

Secretary of State Clinton Takes On Congo's Sexual Violence   2009/08/15 09:36:20
Secretary of State Clinton Takes On Congo‘s Sexual Violence and Conflict Minerals Trade Yesterday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu in eastern Congo, the site of the deadliest war since World War II.  In a meeting with  ... Read more ...

Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict   2009/08/14 13:13:53
Aug. 10, 2009    Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should focus on the fuel which drives the violence in Congo, the conflict minerals extracted from the eastern war zone and widely used by our consumer electronics industry.  ... Read more ...

Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict   2009/08/14 13:04:36
Aug. 10, 2009    Secretary Clinton Must Focus on Cause of Congo Conflict Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should focus on the fuel which drives the violence in Congo, the conflict minerals extracted from the eastern war zone and widely used by our consumer electronics industry.  ... Read more ...

Liberia: "Sexual violence is a stain on our society"   2009/08/13 15:29:41
Voice from the Field Liberia: "Sexual violence is a stain on our society" Donate to Doctors Without Borders August 10, 2009 Liberia 2006 © Sofie Stevens/MSF Portrait of a 14-year-old who was raped by her step-father in Monrovia. “Sexual violence is a stain on our  ... Read more ...

Greek MSF aidworker missing in Darfur   2009/08/11 11:15:05
Greek MSF aidworker missing in Darfur Posted on | August 11, 2009 | EL GENEINA (11 August) – Authorities of the Chadian border town Adé and Goz Beida close to Darfur (Sudan) have confirmed the disappearance of a Greek international aid worker of Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) since  ... Read more ...

Aid workers lost in fog of political games   2009/08/09 11:06:02
WORLD VIEW: IT’S WHERE Arab faces off against African, Islam with Christianity, nomads with farmers, and old ethnic and tribal hatreds bubble up. Where three bitter conflicts divide a state into west, south and east, in Africa’s largest country. Where, despite oil discovered in  ... Read more ...

MSF Continues to Provide Care in Violent Areas of Northern DRC and Southern Sudan   2009/08/07 05:11:08
Field News MSF Continues to Provide Care in Violent Areas of Northern DRC and Southern Sudan August 3, 2009 Sudan 2009 © Brendan Bannon A mother and son, Congolese refugees, receive treatment for malnutrition at a MSF health center in Naandi, Southern Sudan. Video Southern  ... Read more ...

Two MSF Aid Workers Missing in Chad   2009/08/06 19:55:59
Field News Two MSF Aid Workers Missing in Chad August 6, 2009 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that during the night of August 4, 2009, one of the MSF compounds in Chad was robbed by armed assailants. After the robbery, one international and one  ... Read more ...

Tawila, North Darfur: “Now it’s known as a place that was brutally destroyed”   2009/08/03 09:07:07
Tawila, North Darfur: “Now it’s known as a place that was brutally destroyed” June 1, 2008 Sudan 2006 © Jehad Nga Children wait with their family’s donkeys on the edge of Rwanda Camp near Tawila, North Darfur. Chris Sauer, a fire chief in the Lake Tahoe area  ... Read more ...

Hilda Kawuki and Sharon Commins: Held Ransom in Darfur   2009/07/29 13:08:47
Hilda Kawuki and Sharon Commins: Held Ransom in Darfur by JONATHAN HARRIS, Managing Editor Causecast has been outspoken in our support of detained American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea after being arrested on their border. It’s a  ... Read more ...

Sexual violence against Darfuri-women out of control   2009/07/28 12:18:01
Sunday, July 26, 2009 Sexual violence against Darfuri-women out of control Donate J.E. RobertsonLife for women in Darfuri refugee camps in Sudan and neighboring Chad is extremely hard. Many have no access to any public authority that will investigate violence against women, and medical  ... Read more ...

MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow An interview with MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow.   2009/07/27 18:37:42
Colombia: Life in the Shadow of Violence Donate Today at 9:03am MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow An interview with MSF nurse Thomas Prochnow. In Colombia, hundreds of thousands of people live in a state of permanent displacement. The violent conflict to which the country’s  ... Read more ...

From: MSF In The News   2009/07/23 13:42:29
Surge in violence pushes Ethiopia, Somalia to crisis point Donate to MSF at My Superfood For The Hungry Campaign. By Peter Goodspeed, reprinted with permission from the National PostPublished: Friday 18 July 2008. Killings, kidnappings and the threat of famine are turning the Horn of  ... Read more ...

Sudan: Children Seriously Injured by Unexploded Ordnances   2009/07/22 10:52:24
Today at 10:43am Four years after a comprehensive peace agreement ended the most overt warfare between the Northern and Southern Sudan, there are still numerous unexploded ordnances (UXO) found in many parts of the country. Children gather near an MSF health post in Nasir, Upper Nile State.  ... Read more ...

Malnutrition is a key factor in the deaths of five million children every year.   2009/07/19 08:06:03
Malnutrition Sudan 2008 © Anne Yzebe/MSF In 2006, MSF treated 150,000 severely malnourished children, primarily with ready-to-use food, or RUF, a revolutionary new product that is radically changing protocols for responding to this devastating childhood disease. Like the baby foods that  ... Read more ...

Field News From Doctors Without Borders   2009/07/16 10:33:41
Bangladesh: Resurgence in abuse against Rohingya refugees Bangladesh / 16.07.09   On Tuesday 14 July 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières witnessed a group of around 30 police with local officials enter Kutupalong makeshift camp in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, and  ... Read more ...

Sri Lanka: War-Wounded and Displaced Patients Flood MSF Hospitals - Doctors Without Borders   2009/07/15 11:00:19
Sri Lanka: War-Wounded and Displaced Patients Flood MSF Hospitals - Doctors Without Borders [MISC, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 09:14] Working in conjunction with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams in Vavuniya  ... Read more ...