News and Views: Disaster Relief
- G8: Poverty Reduction and Climate Change Inextricably Linked, Say Activists (Moyiga Nduru, Inter Press Service)
- US Trying to Weaken G-8 Climate Change Declaration (Juliet Eilperin, Boston Globe)
- Beyond Eco-Apartheid (Van Jones, Common Ground)
- Scorched: Darfur, the first climate change war? (Julian Borger, The Guardian )
- Global Warming Could Spur 21st Century Conflicts (Alister Doyle, Reuters)
- Climate Change: The Worst Is Yet To Be (Julio Godoy, Inter Press Service)
- CLIMATE CHANGE: Latin America Failing to Adapt (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- 4 million people in Darfur now need humanitarian aid, top UN relief official says (UN News)
- African nomads to be first wiped out by climate change (Peter Beaumont, The Observer)
- Africa: Changing Climate, Changing Lives (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- International Day of Climate Action: Nov. 4
- A Global Catastrophe of Our Own Making (Steve Connor, Independent/UK)
- War Climates (Jeffrey Sachs, TomPaine.com)
- Painful legacy of Guatemala storm (Laura Smith-Spark, BBC News)
- SRI LANKA: Delay in Parley Deepens Humanitarian Crisis (Amantha Perera, Inter Press Service)
- Fresh floods threaten already-hit Guatemala village (Reuters AlertNet)
- Despite rains, 40,000 children face death in drought-stricken Horn of Africa, UN warns (UN News)
- KENYA: Drought could lead to humanitarian catastrophe, warns UN envoy (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- Danger of Philippine Landslides Often Ignored, Critics Say (Carlos H. Conde, The New York Times)
- Mud wipes out Philippines village (BBC News)
- Rains hamper Bolivia flood aid (Daniel Schweimler, BBC News)
- KENYA: Gov't appeals for $245 m to assist drought-affected people (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations (Michael Depp, Reuters)
- Guatemala: UN appeals for urgent funds to feed 285,000 hurricane victims (UN News)
- Month after hurricane, 50,000 Central Americans still homeless, funds short (UN News)
- Indigenous Peoples Particularly Vulnerable to Disasters (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- GUATEMALA: Gaping Wounds Left by Stan Drive Country Further into Poverty (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Guatemalans wary of military aid; US and other regional countries agreed last week to form a relief force (Jill Replogle, The Christian Science Monitor)
- Anger at slow aid to Guatemala mudslide village (Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters)
- 1,400 Guatemalans Missing as Floods Kill 618 (Agence France Presse)
- Dire conditions unacceptable only in the United States? (Lois Melina, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- Rapes in New Orleans Chaos Were Avoidable (Nancy Cook Lauer, Women's eNews)
- UN Spells Out the Stark Choice: Do More for World's Poor or Face Disaster (Larry Elliott, The Guardian)
- Thousands of Latin American Immigrants Among Katrina's Victims (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)