Ruth Gidley
Ruth Gidley has been on the AlertNet team since late 1999. Before that, she lived in Guatemala, working first with a small local NGO and then as a journalist for a Central American news service. Ruth, who has a Masters in Latin American Studies, has edited a book on human rights in Guatemala, and written chapters for books on truth monuments and on Native American traditions.
Aid system at crisis point, agency says
Author: Ruth Gidley
Overhaul the global relief system now or watch millions more people slide over the edge into destitution, an aid agency says in a report full of warnings to donors, governments and humanitarians alike.
As rocketing food and fuel prices force more people to resort to begging and more children to give up school to work, CARE International says it would be better - and much cheaper - to act now than to try to wade in later with inefficient life-saving aid.
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Author: Ruth Gidley
Overhaul the global relief system now or watch millions more people slide over the edge into destitution, an aid agency says in a report full of warnings to donors, governments and humanitarians alike.
As rocketing food and fuel prices force more people to resort to begging and more children to give up school to work, CARE International says it would be better - and much cheaper - to act now than to try to wade in later with inefficient life-saving aid.
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Disease and fear of abuse loom for Bihar flood survivors
Author: AlertNet
By Thin Lei Win
On the side of a road in Supaul district in the flood-hit state of Bihar, a neat row of tents stretches towards the horizon.
Some have tarpaulins for roofs while others are patchworks of blankets and sheets in different shades and sizes, and any kind of material - from bamboo poles to rattan baskets - is used to keep them in place. Then there are families who don't even have enough materials to put a makeshift roof over their heads.
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Author: AlertNet
By Thin Lei Win
On the side of a road in Supaul district in the flood-hit state of Bihar, a neat row of tents stretches towards the horizon.
Some have tarpaulins for roofs while others are patchworks of blankets and sheets in different shades and sizes, and any kind of material - from bamboo poles to rattan baskets - is used to keep them in place. Then there are families who don't even have enough materials to put a makeshift roof over their heads.
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Aid agencies plan CO2 offsets that also help poor
Author: Megan Rowling
From fuel-efficient stoves for displaced Congolese families to drought-resistant cashew trees in Brazil, some aid agencies offering carbon offset schemes want to marry emissions savings with help for people living with climate change.
A London-based coalition is launching a new funding scheme to address concerns about existing trade in carbon credits - primarily that this excludes the world's poorest communities, which are most at risk from the impact of global warming.
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Author: Megan Rowling
From fuel-efficient stoves for displaced Congolese families to drought-resistant cashew trees in Brazil, some aid agencies offering carbon offset schemes want to marry emissions savings with help for people living with climate change.
A London-based coalition is launching a new funding scheme to address concerns about existing trade in carbon credits - primarily that this excludes the world's poorest communities, which are most at risk from the impact of global warming.
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Three years after Katrina swept through town
Author: Ruth Gidley
Do you remember where you were when Hurricane Katrina hit? It's three years this week since New Orleans and a swathe of land around it the size of Britain were ravaged by two hurricanes and a series of official failures.
The city's iconic tourist quarter is back on its feet, and many residents are defiantly upbeat about their progress, but the town known as the Big Easy is still a long way off normal. Some neighbourhoods remain virtual wastelands where less than a fifth of pre-Katrina homes are inhabited, even though New Orleans' population has crept back up, albeit very slowly now.
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Author: Ruth Gidley
Do you remember where you were when Hurricane Katrina hit? It's three years this week since New Orleans and a swathe of land around it the size of Britain were ravaged by two hurricanes and a series of official failures.
The city's iconic tourist quarter is back on its feet, and many residents are defiantly upbeat about their progress, but the town known as the Big Easy is still a long way off normal. Some neighbourhoods remain virtual wastelands where less than a fifth of pre-Katrina homes are inhabited, even though New Orleans' population has crept back up, albeit very slowly now.
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Georgia's displaced top 150,000, U.N. says
Author: Ruth Gidley
U.N. agencies say almost 160,000 people have been forced out of their homes in Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia by fighting between Georgia and Russia. After reaching the town of Gori in central Georgia on Sunday - the first time U.N. organisations had got into the city since it was captured by Russian forces as they fanned out from South Ossetia into the Georgian heartland - staff from the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, estimated that 30,000 people had fled within South Ossetia, plus almost 99,000 in the rest of Georgia. Another 30,000 were estimated to be displaced to Russia. ...
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Author: Ruth Gidley
U.N. agencies say almost 160,000 people have been forced out of their homes in Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia by fighting between Georgia and Russia. After reaching the town of Gori in central Georgia on Sunday - the first time U.N. organisations had got into the city since it was captured by Russian forces as they fanned out from South Ossetia into the Georgian heartland - staff from the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, estimated that 30,000 people had fled within South Ossetia, plus almost 99,000 in the rest of Georgia. Another 30,000 were estimated to be displaced to Russia. ...
