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Iraq Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Since Start Of U.S.-Led Invasion, New Study Says
Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday. Read More »
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A Same-Sex Domestic Violence Epidemic Is Silent
Domestic violence—or as it's often referred to today, intimate partner violence—is usually discussed in the context of heterosexual relationships. But partner violence is also an issue in the LGBTQ community, a fact that has only come to light in recent years. Read More »
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Alone And Forgotten, One American Doctor Saves Lives In Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
[...] There’s generally little truth to those stories of Africa — a continent of more than 50 countries and a billion people — which contrive to lionize Westerners. But in the case of Daniel and hundreds of others, the only reason they are alive to tell their stories is because of the attentions of a single American surgeon, Dr. Tom Catena, who has lived in the Nuba Mountains since 2008. Read More »
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Applying New And Existing Technologies To Atrocity Prevention
Over the past year, I’ve had the honor to be part of the team at USAID implementing the President’s vision of preventing and responding to mass atrocities, including through my service on the White House’s Atrocity Prevention Board. I have deep personal connections to the issue of atrocity prevention, having worked throughout my career on countries in the midst of conflict where such atrocities have occurred, from Rwanda to Angola to Libya. Read More »
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CAT-Zim SACMA Launch Zimbabwe’s Own Version Of USHAHIDI
Southern Africa Crisis Management Agency (SACMA) and Christian Action Trust Zimbabwe (CAT-Zim) have come together to launch a grassroots anchored peace initiative ahead Zimbabwe’s watershed elections this year. Read More »
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Creative Corner: How Kenyans Helped Vermonters Connect With Sun Power
If there were any doubt about this being the era of inter-connectedness for social movements and businesses alike, think again. Read More »
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Food Tech Leaves Rural People Behind
Technology enhanced food production has come a long way, but nearly an eighth of the population still suffers from chronic hunger. The United Nations' Kanayo Nwanze discusses what might help. Read More »
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From Ushahidi To Al Jazeera: The Role Of Mobile In Kenya’s Elections
The people of Kenya will today start voting in a presidential election. Things have been tense in the lead up to polling day and mobile will play a critical role in both the monitoring and reporting of the situation on the ground. Read More »
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How Jock Culture Supports Rape Culture, From Maryville To Steubenville
Your 14-year-old daughter is dumped on your freezing front lawn in a state of chemically induced incoherence with her shoes off and frost stuck in her hair. She tells you she was raped. [...] You wait for the indictments and some semblance of justice, but they dissipate, as one of the accused is a football star from one of the area’s most prominent and politically connected families. [...] Then it gets worse. Read More »
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How Ushahidi Maps The Voices Of Those In Need
Dominic Burbidge discusses how Ushahidi’s transformative crowdsourcing techniques have alleviated crises in Kenya and beyond. Read More »
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Online Activity Has Potential To Escalate Election Violence
Umati, a project of iHub Research and Ushahidi, has produced a pioneering collection of inflammatory speech, posted online by Kenyans in the past three months, as our presidential elections draw near. Read More »
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Project Activate - Ushahidi Comes To Town
As part of the Guardian's second Project Activate initiative we open up our doors and our minds to the crisis crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi for a week of creative and technological collaboration Read More »
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Project Daniel and the World’s First 3D-Printing Prosthetics Lab
Last week, the 2014 International CES conference in Las Vegas unveiled a startling new project that has the health technology world buzzing with excitement. [...] Equipped with 3D printers and Ultrabooks, [Not Impossible LLC] has been supplying prosthetic arms and hands for amputees in the Nuba Mountains, a war-ridden area within South Sudan. Read More »
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Revealed: Asian Slave Labour Producing Prawns For Supermarkets In US, UK
Thai 'ghost ships' that enslave and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers Read More »
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Social Change And New Media In Africa
Cathal Gilbert looks at technologies being used by activists and discovers that many of most innovative ideas have come out of Africa. Read More »
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