How women can help peacebuilding, Nepal a month on, and Vietnamese children enslaved in Britain
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Version 0 of 1. What causes conflict and how can it be resolved? Our latest global development podcast features researchers, peace advocates and a former UN representative debating the key drivers of conflict and what role women, the UN and others can play in peacebuilding. Also on conflict and development, you can read a medic’s first-hand account of working in Yemen amid the ongoing civil war, as well as the UN’s warning of economic collapse in South Sudan as fighting in the country continues. A month on from the devastating Nepal earthquake, global development correspondent Sam Jones travelled to the country to speak to survivors. He reports from Chapagaun, a half-hour drive from Kathmandu, where 200 villagers have established a temporary camp amid the rubble of their homes. Annie Kelly and Mei-Ling McNamara report on the estimated 3,000 Vietnamese children in forced labour in the UK. Plus, watch the story of Hien, who was smuggled from Vietnam to the UK when he was 10 years old. Elsewhere on the site South Sudan close to economic collapse as famine fears resurface Out of Africa: e-learning makes further education a reality for tens of thousands Poverty in Nicaragua drives children out of school and into the workplace UN deal secures release of child soldiers held by Central African Republic militias Burundi’s turmoil points to a shifting social and political landscape Opinion Colombia has established a national day to recognise victims of sexual violence. Despite the progress, Christian Aid’s Lisa Maracani says more must be done to stop an apparent escalation of gender violence in the country. As Ethiopians prepared to go to the polls, Daniel Calingaert and Kellen McClure called on the international community to challenge oppression by funding local human rights and democracy groups. And on the debate surrounding the privatisation of healthcare, academic Dominic Montagu argues that the World Health Organisation should consider the role of the private sector in achieving universal health care. Multimedia Podcast: What causes conflict and how can it be resolved? Video: Burundi violence forces thousands to flee to Tanzania Pictures: South Sudan: how conflict shapes life in local communities What you said: top reader comment On the piece Universal health coverage and private hospitals are not mutually exclusive, ayospeaks wrote: Having to choose between the public or private sector is another example of binary thinking. It only limits our options. The truth is always somewhere in between, which is that we can leverage the reach and regulation of the public sector while modelling it on the quality and result-oriented motive of the private sector to achieve universal health care in the developing world. Highlight from the blogosphere Overseas Development Institute: Migration is capitalism’s unfinished business – it cannot and should not be stopped And finally … Poverty matters will return in two weeks with another roundup of the latest news and comment. In the meantime, keep up to date on the Global Development website. Follow @gdndevelopment and the team – @swajones, @LizFordGuardian, @MarkC_Anderson and @CarlaOkai – on Twitter, and join Guardian Global Development on Facebook. |