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The Case for Better Aid to Pakistan: Climate, Health, Demographic Challenges Demand New Approach
›March 2, 2015 // By Kate DiamondIn 2009, the U.S. Congress passed a five-year, $7.5 billion aid package for a country it had all but abandoned just 10 years earlier. Indeed, if one word can summarize the U.S. relationship with Pakistan, “volatile” might be it. Since the September 11 attacks, the U.S. has appropriated nearly $61 billion in aid to Pakistan – more than twice what it received since independence in 1947.
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As Humanitarian Crises Multiply, Maternal Health and Safety of Women Becoming a Focus
›Accessing maternal health care is already a challenge in many countries, and when conflict erupts or a disaster strikes, it can get even worse, leaving millions of women on their own while at their most vulnerable, said Ugochi Daniels, chief of humanitarian response for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). Women and girls also become more vulnerable to violence during times of crisis, she said, by virtue of nothing but their gender. [Video Below]
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Re-Thinking Climate Interventions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States: Insights From Nepal
›While much of the debate around climate financing focuses on “how much,” an equally important question is “how?”
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Robin Bronen: To Help Alaskans Adapt, Make it Easier to Relocate
›“Human rights and climate change are completely interlinked,” says Robin Bronen in this week’s podcast, and “climate change is happening in Alaska faster than anywhere else on the planet.”
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UN Report Highlights Women’s Roles in Natural Resource Management During and After Conflict
›It’s been 14 years since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 acknowledging women as important agents of change in recovery from conflict and peacebuilding generally. But between 1992 and 2011, only four percent of signatories in 31 major peace processes around the world were women, and only 12 out of 585 peace agreements referred to or made provisions for women’s needs in the reconstruction process.
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Crunching the Numbers on Climate Change, Conflict, and Food Aid
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John Welch: Ebola Creating Slow-Burning Bomb for Maternal Health in Liberia
›“Our responsibility is to call attention to the fact that there’s an invisible crisis happening,” says John Welch of Partners in Health in this week’s podcast. “Ebola is a huge issue for women’s health.”
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‘Extreme Realities’ Sheds Light on Links Between Global Climate Dynamics and National Security
›“We cannot ignore the new reality that climate change has become a major foreign policy issue in the 21st century,” a new film by Hal and Marilyn Weiner concludes.
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