Watch out! The gingerbread zombies are coming!
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James, aged 8, of Sydney wants to know: are zombies real?
Scientists know that many toxins, such as those found in cigarettes, cause most lung cancers, whose cells are depicted here. But isolating causes for other cancers is an ongoing effort.
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What causes cancer? A scary truth might be that we have created an environment for it. An anthropologist’s search for answers to her own diagnosis raises questions for all of us.
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By not acknowledging what Haitians themselves think they need, the UN is failing to sort out one of its worst ever blunders.
Just what they say about Mexico: so close to the USA, so far from God.
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President Trump’s executive orders are already causing chaos at the US-Mexico border, where 30,000 Haitian asylum-seekers are now trapped in legal limbo. It’s the refugee crisis no one talks about.
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After admitting that its peacekeepers brought the disease to the country, the organisation must make financial amends too.
Targeted interventions can help reduce levels of violence against women.
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Women already face high levels of violence in Haiti. But natural disasters can provide a good opportunity to intervene.
Haiti has been struck by natural disasters before. Here’s what we learned about helping victims.
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Six years after a catastrophic earthquake, Haiti has to recover from yet another disaster. Getting it right will be a herculean task.
Destruction in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew.
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At least 1,000 people perished when Hurricane Matthew battered Haiti last week, destroying houses and displacing tens of thousands
The new secretary general of the United Nations should drive substantive reforms, particularly accountability of the international body.
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Africa should focus on the feasible reforms of the UN and de-emphasise its demand for improved representation on the Security Council voting reforms, given the complex politics around these issues.
The Haiti cholera outbreak has killed 10,000 people.
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It has long been known that UN forces brought disease to the country in the aftermath of an earthquake, but how can amends be made?
Hard graft.
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The Clintons have assembled a globally influential humanitarian behemoth. But is it just a colossal liability?
Outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s successor faces the challenge of making the organisation more accountable.
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The ‘functional immunity’ granted to UN officials made good sense when the body was founded after World War II. But as its organisational functions have expanded, so has this immunity.
A medical centre for cholera victims in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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The UN might now apologise for poisoning scores of Roma people in Kosovo – but its role in Haiti’s cholera disaster still goes unacknowledged.
Villages across Nepal remain strewn with rubble, the quake victims still living in tents and flimsy sheds.
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Over 8,500 were killed in the 2015 Nepal earthquake, so how is the country coping?
Patients and companions at the Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti, April 2015.
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Unless drinking water and sanitation infrastructure are improved, cholera could remain in Haiti indefinitely.
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Giving poor people a lot of money or a new asset won’t turn them into entrepreneurs overnight.
Hopes dashed again.
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The people of Haiti are furious at their leaders and want to have their say – but the outside world has other priorities.
Applicants queue up for foreign residency permits in Dominican Republic.
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International reporting of the Caribbean country’s migrant crisis is in danger of missing the point of what the authorities have actually done.
A sailor walking among African captives in the hold of a slave ship. From the book Revelations of a Slave Smuggler published in 1860.
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The Portuguese slave ship São José, which sank off Cape Town, was one of many vessels that either rounded the Cape or pulled into Table Bay for refreshment during the Transatlantic slave trade.