Ruben Andersson
Ruben Andersson joined AlertNet in 2006 after a stint at the United Nations in New York. With a background in social anthropology, he has worked with NGOs in Latin America, Europe and elsewhere before branching into journalism and humanitarian research.
From bad to worse for Nepal's displaced
Author: Ruben Andersson
The peace deal signed last year between Nepal's government and Maoist rebels has done little for people like Hirkala. Having lost both her husband and her home to the civil war, the blind widow fled with her children only to wind up in a region wracked by further civil unrest.
And then the rains started.
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Author: Ruben Andersson
The peace deal signed last year between Nepal's government and Maoist rebels has done little for people like Hirkala. Having lost both her husband and her home to the civil war, the blind widow fled with her children only to wind up in a region wracked by further civil unrest.
And then the rains started.
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Hunger: A silent emergency in India's backyard
Author: Ruben Andersson
It could be a warehouse stocked with supplies for India's urgent flood relief operation: hundreds of boxes full of fortified biscuits from the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) piled up to the ceiling. Relief it is, but for a perpetual emergency.
This stuffy, vast warehouse outside Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh state fills up and empties every month or two, like some cavernous, insatiable mouth. It's the backroom to India's malnutrition crisis, in which a fifth of the population is malnourished and nearly half of all children are underweight - twice the rate of Africa.
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Author: Ruben Andersson
It could be a warehouse stocked with supplies for India's urgent flood relief operation: hundreds of boxes full of fortified biscuits from the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) piled up to the ceiling. Relief it is, but for a perpetual emergency.
This stuffy, vast warehouse outside Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh state fills up and empties every month or two, like some cavernous, insatiable mouth. It's the backroom to India's malnutrition crisis, in which a fifth of the population is malnourished and nearly half of all children are underweight - twice the rate of Africa.
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Gujarat's deadly riots, five years on
Author: Ruben Andersson
Mass killings are often treated as spontaneous outbreaks of violence by the media - from Rwanda's 1994 genocide to the deadly "riots" in India's Gujarat state five years ago. Frenzied mobs might make for a good story, but more often than not there's a chilling method to the madness.
Now a group of Indian investigators says it has unearthed evidence of what human rights activists have said for a long time - that politicians and policemen helped or even led the mobs in Gujarat in 2002 when an estimated 2,000 Muslims were burned, shot and bludgeoned to death.
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Author: Ruben Andersson
Mass killings are often treated as spontaneous outbreaks of violence by the media - from Rwanda's 1994 genocide to the deadly "riots" in India's Gujarat state five years ago. Frenzied mobs might make for a good story, but more often than not there's a chilling method to the madness.
Now a group of Indian investigators says it has unearthed evidence of what human rights activists have said for a long time - that politicians and policemen helped or even led the mobs in Gujarat in 2002 when an estimated 2,000 Muslims were burned, shot and bludgeoned to death.
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Down and out in AIDS-hit India
Author: Ruben Andersson
Hunger, lack of drugs, discrimination - those are realities that many of India's millions of HIV-positive people face day after day, month after month, in a country that now has the most infected people in the world.
Last Sunday was International Candlelight Memorial Day, and activists gathered in eight Indian cities to mourn those killed by AIDS - 25 million and counting, 8,000 every day. All across the country, itÂ’s the poor and marginalised who are most vulnerable to the ravages of the disease.
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Author: Ruben Andersson
Hunger, lack of drugs, discrimination - those are realities that many of India's millions of HIV-positive people face day after day, month after month, in a country that now has the most infected people in the world.
Last Sunday was International Candlelight Memorial Day, and activists gathered in eight Indian cities to mourn those killed by AIDS - 25 million and counting, 8,000 every day. All across the country, itÂ’s the poor and marginalised who are most vulnerable to the ravages of the disease.
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Sri Lanka's repatriation blues
Author: Ruben Andersson
The refugee camp is a maze of red mud lanes, tightly packed huts with palm-leaf roofs and corrugated-iron sheds under the fierce south Indian sun. Hundreds of Sri Lankan refugees have crowded into this crammed patch on the tsunami-beaten coast of Tamil Nadu state since the early 1990s, waiting for a chance to go home. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they could? ...
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Author: Ruben Andersson
The refugee camp is a maze of red mud lanes, tightly packed huts with palm-leaf roofs and corrugated-iron sheds under the fierce south Indian sun. Hundreds of Sri Lankan refugees have crowded into this crammed patch on the tsunami-beaten coast of Tamil Nadu state since the early 1990s, waiting for a chance to go home. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they could? ...
