Katherine Baldwin
Katherine Baldwin is an AlertNet correspondent basd in London. Previously, she covered British politics and breaking general news stories for Reuters for five years, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami from Sri Lanka. Prior to that, she lived and worked for eight years in Brazil and in Mexico, reporting political, general and economic news for Reuters and other media.
Women recruits join efforts to turn Mozambique into a demining success story
LONDON (AlertNet) - Two years ago, Claudia Felizardo Armando from Mozambique applied for a job - with a difference. She signed up to find and destroy land mines in a country heavily scarred by the remnants of 16 years of civil war. Armando became one of the first local women deminers for the HALO Trust, a charity that removes land mines and other war debris in affected countries around the world. ...
Conflict, migration hinder birth registration in African states - UNICEF
LONDON (AlertNet) - Conflict and mass migration in some African states pose huge challenges to efforts to register children at birth, a move seen as key to securing children's rights, UNICEF said on Monday. In countries like Ethiopia, fighting, famine and issues of land tenure mean huge swathes of the population are constantly on the move and thousands of babies go unregistered because of a lack of basic services in many areas, said UNICEF child protection officer Joanne Dunn. ...
Birth certificates could save millions from destitution and exploitation
LONDON (AlertNet) - Both in times of crisis and non-crisis, children without a birth certificate are at risk of exploitation, violence and abuse, according to a report by Plan International. The 2005 Pakistan earthquake killed an estimated 17,000 children but thousands more were left destitute because they could not prove who they were or claim what belonged to them. ...
Solutions to global hunger are within our reach - report
(Updates with comments from report's editors, downsides of success stories) LONDON (AlertNet) - Technological advances in rice production have enabled China to feed an additional 60 million people per year since 1978, while investments in agriculture by farmers in Niger have revitalised an estimated 5 million hectares of land and improved access to food for at least 1 million people. On the Indian-Gangetic plains, named after the Indus and Ganges rivers, crop management techniques that remove the need for irrigation have slashed wheat production costs, benefiting some 620,000 farmers. ...
Poverty, poor urban planning increase risk from typhoons in Philippines
LONDON (AlertNet) - Poverty, poor urban planning and a lack of alternative livelihoods are keeping hundreds of thousands of people in the Philippines trapped in areas that are highly vulnerable to storm and flood damage as the typhoon season continues, aid workers say. Despite a run of destructive typhoons in the past month that washed away homes and caused the worst flooding in 40 years, relief groups say many Filipinos return again and again to flood- or landslide-prone areas because they have little or no choice. ...
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