Violence and disappearances are increasing in Balochistan, with over 100,000 people fleeing the area in recent years, as the Balochi nationalists continue to push for independence from Pakistan
With this week’s headlines focused on the Syrian delegation walking out of the Non-Aligned Movement summit, and Preseident Assad claiming he needed more time to win the war, the humanitarian situation is being neglected in the country.
Gaza’s rapidly growing population of about 1.64 million could soon lose its main source of fresh water, the underground coastal aquifer, which could become unusable by 2016, with the damage irreversible by 2020.
Scientists in the USA are looking to use “gene chip technology” to reduce or contain drug resistance to malaria, an increasing problem globally but particularly in Southeast Asia.
The failure of a proposed treaty to regulate the multi-billion dollar global conventional weapons trade does not mean disaster, according to some campaigners looking to develop effective international arms controls.