Friday New-To-Me: The Story 5 May 2012 | 05:00 am

Original post date: December 28th, 2010 Permalink: http://bloodandmilk.org/2010/12/28/the-story/ New-to-me note: Okay, full disclosure (please don’t throw tomatoes at your screen), I read Nick Kris...

Friday New-To-Me: Justify 27 Apr 2012 | 04:09 pm

Original post date: September 9th, 2011 Permalink: http://bloodandmilk.org/2011/09/09/justify/ New-to-me note: I’ve worked peripherally in international development for several years as an editor a...

UNCTAD – Day 6 27 Apr 2012 | 06:16 am

I want to argue about something new 26 Apr 2012 | 02:10 am

I was lucky enough to hear two Arab Civil society activists speak the other day. The Arab spring has been one of the major undercurrents of UNCTAD XIII. These speeches were different, though – they we...

The U.S Struggle on Drug War in Afghanistan 25 Apr 2012 | 01:46 pm

The United States in essence has been waging two wars: a counterinsurgency against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and a war to eradicate the opium trade in Afghanistan. At the beginning, the latter war was...

Day Five – What’s our purpose here, anyway? 25 Apr 2012 | 07:45 am

So, UNCTAD is a working conference. I’m used to going to health and development conferences, where the purpose of the meeting is to share and discuss information. It’s different being at UNCTAD, where...

UNCTAD – Day Four 24 Apr 2012 | 07:05 am

UNCTAD Day Four I am getting tired of the chronological format, and we’ve got a lot of days left. Today I’ll just offer up some observations: The first half of the high-level event on women in devel...

Leading Relief Groups Warn of Worsening Food Crisis in West and Central Africa 24 Apr 2012 | 03:24 am

Millions of people across the Sahel will be left hungry in the coming months unless multi-million dollar funding shortage for crisis response is filled, aid agencies warn today. Teaser: Millions of....

Uganda women protest topless against Police public groping of female politician 23 Apr 2012 | 11:12 pm

On Friday, Ugandans witnessed another episode of police brutality. It wasn’t just the brutality we are used to seeing.  In this video ran by NTVUganda  a police officer was, publicly before the camera...

UNCTAD – Day Three 23 Apr 2012 | 09:14 am

I started my day off with a visit to the UNCTAD exhibition hall. I wrote about it in my previous post; let’s just say it left me with some concerns. It does have a free lunch, though, which was exciti...