Archive for June, 2011
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RedTalk #7 : Christopher Lamb on humanitarian diplomacy (27 June, 2011)
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsDrawing from more than 40 years of experience as a diplomat and within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement the speaker will illustrate the practical value of the humanitarian diplomacy tool. -
Life on hold in a Tunisia transit camp
Posted on June 23, 2011 | No CommentsThe wind sweeps the earth clean every night. And each morning, the sinuous traces of snakes create undulating patterns in the sand – a reminder of the unseen threats underfoot in the refugee camps at Ras Jedir in Tunisia, along the border with Libya. -
Niger – Screening of Malnutrition
Posted on June 17, 2011 | 1 CommentThe West Sahilian country of Niger is once again the victim of a food crisis. Due to a dry climate and poor soil, Niger is subject to recurrent droughts and insect invasions. Combined with endemic poverty, these factors have caused a decrease in agricultural production, which in turn has led to decades of food shortages. -
RedTalk #6 : Margareta Wahlström on Global Disaster Risk Reduction (16 June 2011)
Posted on June 16, 2011 | No Comments“There is now a sense of urgency and clear political and economic imperatives to invest in disaster risk reduction,” concluded the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk... -
Redtalk #5: David Fisher on law in an age of calamity (14 June, 2011)
Posted on June 14, 2011 | No CommentsDisasters, large and small, appear to be getting worse worldwide. They are affecting more people, striking in different ways and causing more damage. One critical, but little discussed, tool to combat this trend... -
RedTalk #4: Beryl Levinger and Evan Bloom on how the strengths of a National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society and the state of a country’s development interlinked (9 June, 2011)
Posted on June 9, 2011 | No CommentsBeryl Levinger and Evan Bloom will share findings from a recent Movement-wide study on sustainable organisational development which explores practical measures that a National Society can take to further its... -
Invisible volunteer activities creating visible change in communities
Posted on June 6, 2011 | 2 CommentsAlong the slopes and hills of Ngozi, in north Burundi, every two weeks Red Cross volunteers cultivate a plot of communal land and grow pineapples. Like the communities they represent, they are mostly illiterate and surviving on meagre diets. They come, one volunteer explained, because they get a share of the pineapples and make friends who then support each other during hard times.
