Search Results: earthquake
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RELIGION
- Duncan MacLaren
- 21 February 2011
24 Comments
In an extraordinary move, the Vatican has denied approval for Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight to stand for a second term. There is outrage in the Confederation, and with good cause.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Fraser
- 28 September 2010
4 Comments
Amid the horror and gloom there have been moments of inspiration in the flood crisis that have largely gone unreported. While they warmly accept the staples of relief, they know through a history of crippling food insecurity and mass displacement that they are masters of their own destiny.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Simon Roughneen
- 01 September 2010
5 Comments
The name Sukkur is derived from the Arabic word for intense. For aid workers, the epithet seems apt. This disaster seems as vast as the swollen country-long lake that the Indus River has become. But the real human suffering and loss can be obscured by or sanitised into mere statistics.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 30 August 2010
4 Comments
The Australian public is being delivered a profoundly misleading
subliminal message that, because the Taliban are active in the region, they
are tied up in providing relief for flood victims. We need to forget politics for a while and
think about the part we can play in helping Pakistanis through their
crisis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 30 March 2010
13 Comments
Augustine. Wondrous lesson, that man, but he has been imprisoned by theology. Grant me chastity but not yet, everyone knows that hilarious remark.
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INTERNATIONAL
The story of Haiti, even from the earliest decades of its independence,
is one of a downward spiral into debt and underdevelopment. It has been at the short end of the stick, time and time again,
in its relationships with richer and powerful countries. Haiti, it
turns out, never stood a chance.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Antonio Castillo
- 04 March 2010
7 Comments
Concepción, the second largest city in Chile, was worst affected by the weekend's earthquake. I was there little more than a month ago, visiting old
comrades and my sister and her family. At the moment of writing I have
been unable to contact them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Aurelien Mondon
- 05 February 2010
7 Comments
The Haitians need help, but are not a failed people. Two hundred years ago, Haiti became a beacon of light and freedom for
all oppressed people. Colonialism was defeated, and the myth of white supremacy dealt a mortal blow. For this, the little country would pay.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Beth Doherty
- 20 January 2010
4 Comments
Pat Robertson's comments about Haiti's 'pact with the devil' are unhelpful, when deeply religious Haitians are themselves wondering about God's role in the earthquake. A more welcome image of Christianity is visible in the aid agencies that are assisting in the relief efforts.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kent Rosenthal
- 18 January 2010
9 Comments
In 2006 while living in Haiti I wrote about the plight
of human trafficking victims. But the same issue of justice doesn't
enter the picture when talking about an earthquake. What light could I shed on the enormity of suffering and destruction with my slight contribution?
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ENVIRONMENT
- Drew Taylor
- 25 November 2009
14 Comments
The media has labelled them 'murder
simulators', linked them to depression and held them
accountable for childhood obesity. But there's another side to videogames that the mainstream media doesn't seem to want you to know about.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Matthew Smeal
- 21 October 2009
3 Comments
Globally last year, 65 children out of every thousand died before the age of five. Recent figures suggest that, with the right approach, the road to ending preventable child deaths could be a short one.
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