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Gender relations are changing along with climate

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
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

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
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

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
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.

Are the taps flowing?

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97894/Are-the-taps-flowing
BAGHDAD/DUBAI 22 April 2013 (IRIN) - While access to clean water has improved over the last decade, more than one quarter of Iraqis still have less than two hours of access to water from the general network every day.

The returns challenge in Mali

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97585/The-returns-challenge-in-Mali
GAO/DAKAR 04 March 2013 (IRIN) - Nearly 3,000 Malians who fled towns and villages in the north when armed men occupied their homeland have headed home, but the vast majority are staying put in the south or in neighbouring countries, for fear of insecurity, reprisal killings, and in the knowledge that basic services are still sorely lacking.

Humanitarian overview

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97895/Humanitarian-overview
BAGHDAD/DUBAI 22 April 2013 (IRIN) - Ten years after the toppling of Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein, human development statistics – flawed as they are – paint a complex portrait of a country that has seen improvement over the last decade, but is still largely struggling.

A unified approach to climate change and hunger

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97913/A-unified-approach-to-climate-change-and-hu...
JOHANNESBURG 24 April 2013 (IRIN) - Studies out of Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Niger show that children born during natural hazards, like droughts or floods, are more likely to be malnourished. Yet as the climate changes, it is poor countries - already struggling with hunger and food insecurity - that are increasingly likely to face these natural hazards.

Zimbabwe short on climate change funds

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97994/Zimbabwe-short-on-climate-change-funds
HARARE 07 May 2013 (IRIN) - Inadequate funding and limited resources are frustrating Zimbabwe’s efforts to develop plans to deal with the impact of climate change, says a government progress report.

Marshalling smartphones, gravediggers to fight dengue in Pakistan

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98010/Marshalling-smartphones-gravediggers-to-fig...
LAHORE 10 May 2013 (IRIN) - On the frontline in the fight against dengue fever in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, the authorities have a sharp eye for spare car tyres.

Smartphones used to detect parasitic worms

20 mai, 2013 - 07:00
Source: 
IRIN - water and Sanitation
URL: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97635/Smartphones-used-to-detect-parasitic-worms
NAIROBI 13 March 2013 (IRIN) - A smartphone, a strip of double-sided tape and a simple glass lens could have a significant impact on the diagnosis of intestinal parasites that affect millions in remote, rural parts of the world, where even the most basic medical testing is hard to come by.
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