Publication: TrustLaw

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Magnitude 8.2 earthquake strikes Russian Far East

(Adds no tsunami warning)MOSCOW, May 24 (Reuters) - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said.The epicentre ... [Published TrustLaw - 35 mins ago]
First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

Father of Chechen shot by FBI suspects son was tortured

GROZNY, Russia, May 23 (Reuters) - The father of a Chechen immigrant killed during questioning over his links with one of the Boston Marathon bombings suspects said on Thursday he plans to travel to the United States where he suspects his son was tortured ... [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Invest in safer school buildings: School collapses in Luang ...

It was a usual Monday morning for 16-year-old Lee Net, a Khamou ethnic minority who lives in Houymanh village, Phomxay District, Luang Prabang. At 7:00am on May 6th 2013, she started walking to Houymanh school where she is completing her final year of ... [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports
AmeriCares
AmeriCares

One Child One World: Lasting Help for Ghana?s Orphans

In Ghana, a marked increase in the number of orphans has led to high demand for supportive care housing and along with it, severe resource constraints. When our Africa team found that the children in many of Ghana's homes for orphans were underweight, ... [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Chips for sex: exploring lives of Kenya’s hungry millions

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the slums of Nairobi and the picturesque Kenyan coastal town of Malindi, researcher Grace Lubaale found ugly stories of child prostitution and government neglect.His research is part of a four-year project by ... [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Campaigners welcome new extractive transparency standard

SYDNEY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Campaigners say a new standard passed by the board of a global initiative to increase transparency in the oil, gas and mining sector will bring more transparency to the extractive industry and to resource-rich co ... [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

INTERVIEW-Forced abortions, sterilisations in China persist: activist

Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation correspondentBlind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng speaks to Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview after the launch of Amnesty International's annual report in London May 22, 2013. THOMSONREUTERSFOUNDATION/ Amelia ... [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
Entities: Abortion, Sterilize, China
First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Turkmenistan - RFE/RL correspondent freed

Author: Reporters Without BordersReporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that Rovshen Yazmuhamedov (Ровшан Язмухаммедов), a reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Turkmen service, was released yesterday. He had been held ... [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

World urged to speed up action on disaster reduction

Resident Taylor Tennyson sits in the front yard of her family home which was left devastated by a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, in the outskirts of Oklahoma City May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Adrees LatifGENEVA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world is still ... [Published TrustLaw - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Despite threats to habitat, new photos provide hope for ...

“Beautiful, isn’t he?” beams Age Kridalaksana, a young Indonesian ecologist in a research station nestled in the thickly forested hills of Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park, an expanse of mountainous tropical rainforest on the country’s main island of ... [Published TrustLaw - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Pakistan, UN seek to cut risk of glacial lake floods

DRONGAGH, Pakistan (AlertNet) - Abdul Jabbar was in his house in the Bindu Gol valley of Pakistan’s northern Chitral district when a glacial lake burst through the ridge holding it back high above.“We felt the ground shaking and heard the roar of the ... [Published TrustLaw - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Foundation and GE work to strengthen rule of law in Nigeria

The Thomson Reuters Foundation and General Electric Co. hosted a high-level workshop in Lagos, Nigeria to identify legal reforms needed to strengthen the rule of law and to combat corruption.Over 70 leading Nigerian judges, attorney generals, lawyers, ... [Published TrustLaw - May 22 2013]

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"One neighborhood in Nairobi showed almost as many cases of malnutrition as Kajiado, yet it was classified as acceptable, while Kajiado was classified as an emergency" said Lilly Schofield, Concern's evaluation and research advisor
Malnourished children overlooked in Kenya [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
"Displaced populations are at increased risk of being neglected, unprotected and left without durable solutions to their displacement the longer they are displaced" it said
Disasters displaced 32 mln in 2012, rising trend forecast [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
...risk reduction we are laying the basis for better development," Jan Eliasson, U N deputy secretary-general, told reporters earlier in the week. "I would claim that disaster risk reduction has to be part of the (post-2015) development agenda because it is the poor, it is the most vulnerable who are most affected."
Disaster risk must be part of new development goals [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]
"They would go to your home, drag you from your bed - you wouldn't be allowed to put on your clothes - put you in the car, drive you to hospital and you would be operated on. They would abort your baby whatever the conditions were - so long as you hadn't given birth to the child."
INTERVIEW-Forced abortions, sterilisations in China persist: activist [Published TrustLaw - 13 hours ago]

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