The U.S. House of Representatives today is voting on a series of amendments to the continuing budget resolution. Several of these amendments take pot shots at the United Nations and other international institutions.
At the Mobile World Congress underway in Barcelona today, the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation announced a new initiative to study how mobile health technologies may be harnessed to improve health care in Brazil's indigenous communities.
Today the Council held a closed meeting on the situation in Cambodia/Thailand, pursuant to a letter from the Cambodian Perm Rep to the Security Council President requesting the meeting.
Fans already know this, but Arcade Fire are long time advocates for Haiti. One song on their Grammy award winning album is even titled Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), which refers to this book about Paul Farmer's quest to transform global health policy through the work of his NGO Partners in Health in Haiti.
The struggle for human rights in Afghanistan received an alarming setback when the Afghan government announced that it will take over all women’s shelters in the country within weeks.
