Browsing issue: Water

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Crisis looms in drought-stricken Niger

In Niger, there are too many mouths to feed, and not enough productive land. The country already struggles with extreme poverty but now Niger is being hard hit by climate change.

Niger

Environment, Food & health & development, Water

Witnessed: 144 times

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Food prices still relevant on World Food Day

Developing countries are still hit hard by food costs.

As World Food Day is marked, human rights groups claim the current agricultural system needs to be reconsidered if the hungry are to be fed.

Food & health & development, Poverty, Water

Witnessed: 235 times

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Philippines: Rural Medical Clinics Suffer

HELP is working with Ateneo de Zamboanga University on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines....

Philippines

Food & health & development, Poverty, Water

Witnessed: 254 times

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Bhopal: Police Arrests Children Protesting Against Dow Chemical

Many Bhopali men, women and children were arrested after a peaceful protest outside the PM's office on June 9, 2008....

India

Corporations and human rights, Impunity, Water

Witnessed: 369 times

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Clean Water for the Indigenous People of the Manu Rain Forest Peru

Sustainable Clean Water and Health Project in the indigenous community of Saint Rose of Huacaria in the Manu Rain Forest located in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon....

Peru

Water

Witnessed: 449 times

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WITNESS Video Advocacy Training for Youth from Speak Africa - Ghana

August, 2008: Bukeni Waruzi, WITNESS Program Coordinator for Africa and the Middle East, traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to offer video advocacy training for 20 young human rights activists from Sp...

Africa, Ghana

Poverty, Sanitation, Water

Witnessed: 288 times

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Clean Water for a Better Life

Obtaining drinking water is a great problem for many people living in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso....

Burkina Faso

Environment, Food & health & development, Water

Witnessed: 604 times

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Water Crisis in the Azawak of West Africa

Filmed in Niger, this video shows the struggle that the people of the Azawak go through to obtain water....

Mali, Niger, West Africa

Food & health & development, Sanitation, Water

Witnessed: 578 times

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Seth Abloso - Interview at the CIVICUS World Assembly

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the CIVICUS World Assembly, 18-21 June 2008, in Glasgow, Scotland.

Ghana

Poverty, Water

Witnessed: 409 times

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We Feed The World

Trailer from WE FEED THE WORLD by Erwin Wagenhofer, produced by Helmut Grasser.
An eye-opening documentary about scarcity and plenty.

Brazil, Eastern Europe, Europe

Food & health & development, Poverty, Water

Witnessed: 663 times

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