Seamen’s Church Interviews MV Iceberg 1 Piracy Survivors
File photo shows M/V Iceberg 1 before the hijacking. The Seamen’s Church Institute’s (SCI) Douglas B. Stevenson, Director of SCI’s Center for Seafarers’ Rights, recently sat down with former hostages from the MV Iceberg 1 in Accra, Ghana to hear about their experiences and how they find life two yea ...
Gallup dice: República Dominicana ocupa lugar 50 entre países más felices
El Biran NY SANTO DOMINGO. Panamá ocupa el primer lugar entre los países más felices, conforme a la encuesta Índice de Bienestar Gallup-Healthways , que data de 2013, la cual coloca a República Dominicana en la posición número 50. El estudio de la reputada firma fue aplicado a un total de 135 nacion ...
US says 'close combat advisors' could battle jihadists
Washington (AFP) - The United States plans to strike the Islamic State group in its Syrian strongholds and could send military advisors into combat alongside Iraqi troops, American commanders said Tuesday. Military leaders warned of a further escalation in their battle against the jihadists just as ...
Pakistan court stays execution of murder convict
Pakistan court stays execution of murder convict A Pakistani court on Tuesday postponed for almost a month the hanging of a murderer in what would have been the country's first civilian execution for six years, lawyers said. News source ..| Sponsored links: LehaLeha USA | BigStockNews.com > Ex- ...
Yemen: Humanitarian Snapshot (August 2014)
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Yemen The humanitarian crisis in Yemen continues to be characterised by conflict, political instability, extreme poverty, lack of basic services, weak rule of law, and impact of natural disasters. Consequently, an estimated 14.7 ...
Yemen: Key Humanitarian needs (August 2014)
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Yemen Humanitarian needs and the underlying context in Yemen remain largely unchanged since 2013. An estimated 14.7 million out of 25 million people require some form of humanitarian aid. More than half of the people do not have ...
Make women agents for resilience
Source: UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Country: World, Yemen By Denis McClean SHARM EL SHEIKH, 16 September 2014 - There were calls today for gender to be mainstreamed into the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction in a major debate on the role of women as change agents f ...
