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Blair Peterson

WHO | Global Health Diplomacy - 3 views

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Global Public Health Global Health Diplomacy WHO UN International Relations

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  • Global health diplomacy brings together the disciplines of public health, international affairs, management, law and economics and focuses on negotiations that shape and manage the global policy environment for health. The relationship between health, foreign policy and trade is at the cutting edge of global health diplomacy.
Blair Peterson

Fault Lines in Global Health | Center for Strategic and International Studies - 1 views

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Global Health Diplomacy International Relations

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  • Global health has come to be seen as a ‘best buy’ for achieving concrete health improvements in people’s lives and leveraging the United States’ ‘Smart Power.’
Blair Peterson

As Ebola Ebbs in Africa, Focus Turns From Death to Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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International Relations ebola Public Health africa

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  • While many have emphasized the enormous assistance hauled into the region by the United States and international organizations, there is strong evidence, especially here in Monrovia, that the biggest change came from the precautions taken by residents themselves.“Fundamentally, this is about the extent to whi
  • Reeling from the explosion of infections in August, volunteer Ebola watchdog groups sprang up in many neighborhoods, typically overseen by local elders and led by educated youths, drawing from a long history of community organizing to survive war, poverty and government neglect.
  • “Heroes emerged in every community,” said Dr. Mosoka Fallah, a Harvard-trained Liberian epidemiologist who often acted as a liaison between neighborhoods and the government. “The volunteer task forces may be the biggest reason behind the drop in October.”
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  • He said that the region’s chiefs enlisted the traditional leaders in the area and put together bylaws that barred residents from hiding their sick, interfering with health workers or carrying out traditional burials that increased the risk of spreading the disease by touching infected corpses.
  • We threatened that anybody who tried to do a traditional burial would be banished from the chiefdom,” he said
Blair Peterson

Mr. Putin Resumes His War in Ukraine - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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International Relations Russia Ukraine

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  • Meanwhile, Ukraine is broke, and without the military means to move against the Russian-backed rebels. Most of the victims are civilians who struggle with hunger and dislocation in the rubble of the combat zones and die in the constant exchanges of shells and rockets.
  • resident Vladimir Putin has sharply cranked up his direct support for the rebels in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, while continuing to baldly deny it and to blame all the violence on the United States.
  • its allies will actively use their good offices with Kiev to seek a workable
sabrinacarneiro

Security Threat Analysis: ISIS - 0 views

http://ironline.american.edu/security-threat-analysis-isis/

International Relations

started by sabrinacarneiro on 02 Feb 15 no follow-up yet
gabsandres

The impact of Charlie Hebdo: Americans now back Muhammad cartoons - The Washington Post - 0 views

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Charlie Hebdo

shared by gabsandres on 29 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Ever since the terrorist attacks in Paris shortly after the New Year, U.S. media have been debating within their newsrooms whether to publish the cartoon that ran immediately before the terrorist attack. 
  • About twice as many Americans thought the European newspapers who published such images were acting irresponsibly (61 percent) than those who thought it was responsible to publish them (29 percent).
Blair Peterson

U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces, Officials Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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International Relations Russia Ukraine

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  • With Russian-backed separatists pressing their attacks in Ukraine, NATO’s military commander, Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, now supports providing defensive weapons and equipment to Kiev’s beleaguered forces, and an array of administration and military officials appear to be edging toward that position, American officials said Sunday.
gr332107

Wife of Japanese ISIS captive urges Amman, Tokyo to work for his relief - 0 views

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ISIS

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  • gr332107 on 29 Jan 15
     
    Breaking News By REUTERS \ TOKYO - The wife of a Japanese journalist thought to be held by Islamic State insurgents in Syria urged the Japanese and Jordanian governments to work for his release shortly before a deadline set by his captors expired.
sabrinacarneiro

On Jordan's willingness to hand over Sajida to ISIS - 0 views

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2015/01/29/On-Jordan-s-willingness-to-hand-over-Sajida-to-ISIS.html

International Relations

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gr332107

IS Hostage's Wife In Plea After Ultimatum - 0 views

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ISIS

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  • gr332107 on 29 Jan 15
     
    The wife of a Japanese hostage held by Islamic State has spoken for the first time since her husband was captured after the militants sent her an ultimatum. Kenji Goto has been held captive since last October, with the jihadist group demanding Jordan releases failed Iraqi suicide bomber Sajida al Rishawi in return for his freedom.
kingbilton

G1 - Reservatório de Funil, no RJ, chega ao nível mais baixo desde 1969 - not... - 0 views

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Drouth Brazil

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  • em apenas um dia, o volume do reservatório caiu de 4,15 % para 3,49%
  • Esse é o menor nível do reservatório desde que ele começou a operar, em1969
  • O Reservatório de Funil, em Itatiaia, no Sul Fluminense, atingiu, no sábado (24), o nível mais baixo da história.
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  • É desse reservatório que sai água para a Usina Hidrelétrica de Funil, responsável por parte do abastecimento de energia de Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Espírito Santo.
  • volume morto, em que o reservatório fica impossibilitado de gerar energia
  • O Reservatório de Funil fica numa região estratégica, onde há várias indústrias
  • o nível do reservatório de Paraibuna, o maior de quatro que abastecem o estado do Rio de Janeiro, atingiu o volume morto pela primeira vez desde que foi criado,
  • a usina hidroelétrica foi desligada após o nível atingir zero.
  • O volume morto é a água que está abaixo do nível das comportas e precisa ser puxada por bombas.
  • duraria de seis meses a um ano
  • economizando água.
sabrinacarneiro

Fall in Oil Prices Poses a Problem for Russia, Iraq and Others - 2 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/world/europe/fall-in-oil-prices-poses-a-problem-for-russia-iraq-and-others.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0 From Moscow to Caracas...

International Relations

started by sabrinacarneiro on 27 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
gabsandres

Obama on Russia: 'Large countries don't bully smaller countries' - CNN.com - 1 views

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obama russia bully cnn

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  • We have no interest in seeing Russia weakened or its economy in shambles. We have a profound interest, as I believe every country does, in promoting a core principle, which is: Large countries don't bully smaller countries,"
  • Pro-Russian separatists are blamed for the attack on residential areas in the port city, Donetsk regional police chief Vyacheslav Abroskin said on his Facebook page.
  • Another 102 people were injured, at least 75 of whom needed hospital treatment, and many suffered shrapnel injuries, Mariupol City Council sai
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  • "expressed grave conce
  • "The Secretary reiterated the need for an immediate resumption of the ceasefire, a withdrawal of heavy weapons, and closing the border.
  • "look at all the additional options that are available to us short of military confrontation."
saniyajoshi

BBC News - Ukraine conflict: EU weighs more sanctions on Russia - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-europe-31000692

sanctions russia

shared by saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • EU leaders have asked their foreign ministers to consider imposing further sanctions on Russia in response to the continued fighting in Ukraine.
  • 5,000 people have been killed in fighting since the rebels seized swathes of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions last April, according to UN estimates. More than a million people have been displaced.
  • Ukraine.
    • saniyajoshi
      saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15
       
      Does Ukraine really want to be a part of Russia? Why? 
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  • sanctions
bobbycivita

BBC News - Libya gunmen attack Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli - 0 views

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IR Libya Attack hotel

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  • Libya gunmen attack Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli
  • Corinthia Hotel,
  • car bomb exploded near the premises
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  • popular with foreigners in Libya's capital, killing three guards
  • Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel
  • reception area.
  • car bomb also exploded outside the hotel.
  • not clear whether the gunmen are still inside the hotel, and whether any staff or guests are trapped there.
  • "I suddenly heard shots and saw people running towards me, and we all escaped from the back [of the hotel] through the underground garage. The hotel did a lockdown after that."
  • number of attackers is not clear.
  • between three and five.
  • one gunman had been arrested
  • two assailants were still inside the hotel.
  • received a threat "a few days ago" warning managers "to empty the building".
  • popular with foreign diplomats and government officials.
sabrinacarneiro

Who Will Rule the Oil Market? - 1 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/opinion/sunday/what-happened-to-the-price-of-oil.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share "American shale oil has become the decisive new factor in...

International Relations

started by sabrinacarneiro on 27 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
gr332107

Fate of Japanese hostages unknown as ISIS deadline apparently passes - CNN.com - 3 views

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      gr332107 on 27 Jan 15
       
      Japanese army constitutionally forbidden from taking action other than for self-defence → The negative legacy of the WW2 became the obstruct which came up to solve the issue currently. 
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