Posts Tagged ‘UNICEF’

2 Cents on Bacha Bazi

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, Racism, War on 25 April 2011 tagged Afghan National Police, Afghan Police, Afghanistan, ANP, Bacha Bazi, Eurocentric, Human Rights, Kelly B Vlahos, malnutrition, New England, orientalist, taliban, UNICEF, بچه بازی with no comments

In writing about bacha bazi and how it fits into the on-going East-West dynamic of Human Rights discourse I came to a conclusion (after facing a lot of frustration with much of the Eurocentric and Orientalist verbiage in a lot of the writing about the controversial subject). Namely that as with any predatory or exploitative [...]

U.N. Report : Afghanistan Worst Nation to be Born In

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 22 November 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Dainel Toole, Geneva, Infant Mortality Rate, Measles, Polio, taliban, The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund, Vaccination with 1 comment

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has indicated Afghanistan as the worst nation for a child to be born in, in their annual The State of the World’s Children report. Even after an 8 year presence of United States and NATO troops, Afghan children still face high risk of otherwise eradicated diseases, lack of access [...]

South Asian Hunger at 40 Year High Due to Economic and Defense Crises

In History, india, News, pakistan, Politics on 2 June 2009 tagged Bangladesh, BBC, Defense, Economic Development, Economics, Global Warming, Hunger, india, Nepal, pakistan, Poverty, Richard Holbrooke, South Asia, UNICEF, World Bank with no comments

Hopefully these figures will add some weight to Richard Holbrooke‘s testimony in front of the House Foreign Relations Committee where he called for the United States to make as much of an economic and social development investment in Pakistan as the United States currently is in terms of defense: The report by the UN children’s [...]