Reality Check The newsletter of the Reality of Aid project. The whole website looks like a valuable information source.

A very gloomy article considering the evidence that global aids infections have now peaked. This piece, on the other hand, is legitimately gloomy.

A very gloomy article considering the evidence that global aids infections have now peaked. This piece, on the other hand, is legitimately gloomy.

A very gloomy article considering the evidence that global aids infections have now peaked. This piece, on the other hand, is legitimately gloomy.

Newropeans Magazine – The Unenviable Paradoxes of Iraq! I used to work with Agron Ferati, who is extraordinarily brilliant. He’s recently begun doing more press, in a risky and desperate attempt to get more aid into Iraq. I thought his use of the term “humanitarian surge” was an evocative and pithy description of what we’ll need to do there. Agron is also from Kosovo, so he knows his way around sectarian violence.

Let CeaseFire fight The argument made here, that the valuable Ceasefire program was not sustainable because it received only government funding, speaks to a larger issue – what is the responsibility of the government in our society, and what is the responsibility of charities? It’s something I think about often in the context of civil society development abroad.

I read an interesting article five years ago about the 1995 Chicago heatwave deaths as the result of a government which did not believe it was responsible for the lives of its frailest citizens, but I can’t seem to google it up.

News | Africa – Reuters.com How very very Bridget Jones.