AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Colombias displaced seek refuge in Buenaventura
In the middle of jungle rainforest along Colombia's western Pacific Coast, lies the city of Buenaventura, the country's most important port. The port is a focal point for Colombia's exports, handling about 60 percent of the country's trade. With its outlet
NGOs eye class action lawsuits to fight corruption
Many activists are licking their lips at the thought of more class action-type anti-graft cases brought by civil players
G20 Summit in Seoul -- Live Blog
Leaders of a group of 20 major economies ranging from the United States to the European Union and BRIC nations are meeting in Seoul this week amid simmering tensions over global imbalances and how to deal with them. Reuters journalists live blog the event.
Singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya teaches Dhaka slum children
LONDON (AlertNet) - After a false start studying economics at university, Bangladeshi singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya turned her focus to music and mastering the songs of Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore, awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, was the firs
Why arent governments planning for emerging threats?
Dr Randolph Kent is director of the Humanitarian Futures Programme, a humanitarian policy research unit at King's College, London. Accountability rhetoric is high on the radar of all governments and yet when they talk of accountability, they focus on tax-p
A (broken) promise to the worlds women
I recently made my way through the same Central African countryside as I traveled through two years ago with Population Services International (PSI), the global health organization for which I serve on the board of directors. This time, I was in Rwanda and
BBC aid-for-arms story very damaging - aid agency
-- Author Andrew Hogg is head of the News Unit at Christian Aid. -- It started as a plug on BBC On-Line for a World Service radio programme. The claim was damning. "Millions of dollars in Western aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siph
Climate finance: after mobilisation, then what?
Climate change represents a revolutionary moment for the global economy. What has gone before needs to change. The new growth model moving forward will reflect a reality of low carbon development. To its credit, the international community recognised this
The challenges of measuring human development
The text below is the introduction to the 2010 Human Development Report, The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development, published by the United Nations Development Programme. In 1990 public understanding of development was galvanized by the app
Grassroots groups shape strategy to protect Guatemalas forests
People who contribute to conservation and the sustainable management of forest resources are being trained and encouraged to take part in decision making