Social Issues

Kenya’s waste management challenge*

18 Mayo, 2013 - 08:45
Origen: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97638/Kenya-s-waste-management-challenge
NAIROBI 13 March 2013 (IRIN) - As the urban population in Nairobi and elsewhere in East Africa grows, so does the solid waste management burden - a situation worsened by poor funding for urban sanitation departments and a lack of enforcement of sanitation regulations.

Cholera outbreak in Congo

18 Mayo, 2013 - 08:45
Origen: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97661/Cholera-outbreak-in-Congo
BRAZZAVILLE 15 March 2013 (IRIN) - An influx of migrants from the countryside into the Republic of Congo's second largest city, Pointe-Noire, is exacerbating a cholera outbreak that began in November 2012. The outbreak infected at least 389 and killed 10, according to the health ministry and local authorities.

Gender relations are changing along with climate

18 Mayo, 2013 - 08:45
Origen: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97727/Gender-relations-are-changing-along-with-cl...
JOHANNESBURG 25 March 2013 (IRIN) - A changing climate will inevitably have an impact on gender relations in conservative rural communities, but not enough is being done to boost the resilience of women - already disadvantaged by traditions of inequality.

Families still in need as calm returns to Myanmar’s Meiktila

18 Mayo, 2013 - 08:45
Origen: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97731/Families-still-in-need-as-calm-returns-to-M...
MEIKTILA 26 March 2013 (IRIN) - Inside a stadium now sheltering more than 2,000 displaced people in the central Myanmar town of Meiktila, residents appear dazed.

Boost for healthcare in DRC

18 Mayo, 2013 - 08:45
Origen: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97761/Boost-for-healthcare-in-DRC
NAIROBI 31 March 2013 (IRIN) - The British government has announced a major new programme aimed at providing essential healthcare to six million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The five-year, US$270.7 million project will focus on rebuilding health facilities, training health workers, and supplying drugs and equipment.

SHARE – Making connections: Women, sanitation and health

7 Mayo, 2013 - 19:03
Origen: 
Sanitation updates
URL: 
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/share-making-connections-women...

Published on May 3, 2013 – “Making connections: Women, sanitation and health” took place on 29th April 2013 at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Save Lives, Clean your Hands – BRAC video

7 Mayo, 2013 - 14:05
Origen: 
Sanitation updates
URL: 
http://sanitationupdates.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/save-lives-clean-your-hands-br...

The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh has produced a new handwashing promotion video. It shows slides of handwashing promotion sessions for different groups (children, adolescent girls, women, men), as well as for schools, village WASH committees and mosques (imams).

Bees to have their day in court over insecticide use

28 Marzo, 2013 - 06:01
Origen: 
Earthzine
URL: 
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23308-bees-to-have-their-day-in-court-over...

Originally Published by New Scientist

– The long-running row over insecticides linked to declines in bee numbers is going to court. Beekeepers and activists are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying it should have banned neonicotinoid insecticides.

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