Natasha Elkington
Natasha Elkington is an AlertNet journalist based in London. She has previously worked as a TV producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as an online editor and reporter for Reuters in Toronto. She has also done freelance photography for various publications. Originally from Kenya, she speaks multiple languages and has a passion for the arts and humanitarian issues.
UN women's agency: Guys, what took you so long?
Author: Natasha Elkington
LONDON (AlertNet) - After years of foot-dragging, the U.N. General Assembly has finally approved a resolution to create a high-level agency for women's rights, which supporters have hailed as a historic breakthrough.
The decision this week to merge four U.N. bodies dealing with women's issues to form a single agency with greater clout comes after three years of political wrangling -- and decades after
the world body created similar agencies to deal with children, refugees, environment and development.
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Author: Natasha Elkington
LONDON (AlertNet) - After years of foot-dragging, the U.N. General Assembly has finally approved a resolution to create a high-level agency for women's rights, which supporters have hailed as a historic breakthrough.
The decision this week to merge four U.N. bodies dealing with women's issues to form a single agency with greater clout comes after three years of political wrangling -- and decades after
the world body created similar agencies to deal with children, refugees, environment and development.
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Give elders a say in East African justice, report urges
Author: Natasha Elkington
LONDON (AlertNet) - Elders' arbitration is likelier to solve conflicts in East Africa than modern governance, a report released on Tuesday said.
Research in Karamoja, part of northeast Uganda, showed traditional methods of resolving conflict had worked well for centuries and were key to justice today, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) said.
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Author: Natasha Elkington
LONDON (AlertNet) - Elders' arbitration is likelier to solve conflicts in East Africa than modern governance, a report released on Tuesday said.
Research in Karamoja, part of northeast Uganda, showed traditional methods of resolving conflict had worked well for centuries and were key to justice today, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) said.
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Pakistan's Pashtun could embrace militants - report
Author: Natasha Elkington
Pakistan may push ethnic minorities in its conflict-torn North West Frontier Province
into the arms of militants if steps are not taken to resolve grievances, a rights group said on Tuesday.
The Pashtun, one of the biggest minority groups in the region, are key to restoring stability in the area, Minority Rights Group International(MRG) said in a report.
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Author: Natasha Elkington
Pakistan may push ethnic minorities in its conflict-torn North West Frontier Province
into the arms of militants if steps are not taken to resolve grievances, a rights group said on Tuesday.
The Pashtun, one of the biggest minority groups in the region, are key to restoring stability in the area, Minority Rights Group International(MRG) said in a report.
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Central African Republic clashes displace 100,000
Author: Natasha Elkington
LONDON (AlertNet)- Fighting in the north of Central African Republic (CAR) has uprooted more than 125,000 people in the last year and access to them is likely to worsen with the approaching rainy season, a U.N. official said. Up to one million people have been affected by the clashes between rebel factions and government forces, and thousands of displaced are living in "deplorable conditions", having fled to remote areas where aid workers have little access, the U.N. deputy chief for Humanitarian Affairs, Catherine Bragg, said. ...
Author: Natasha Elkington
LONDON (AlertNet)- Fighting in the north of Central African Republic (CAR) has uprooted more than 125,000 people in the last year and access to them is likely to worsen with the approaching rainy season, a U.N. official said. Up to one million people have been affected by the clashes between rebel factions and government forces, and thousands of displaced are living in "deplorable conditions", having fled to remote areas where aid workers have little access, the U.N. deputy chief for Humanitarian Affairs, Catherine Bragg, said. ...
Wounds fester a year after Kenya election violence
Author: Natasha Elkington
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - More than a year after a stray police bullet tore through his chest, paralysing him from the waist down, George Ifedha winces in pain from bed sores that have been left to fester.
Ifedha's neighbours carefully peel away the newspaper covering his oozing wound, releasing the stench of rotting flesh that then fills his home in Nairobi's teeming Kibera slum.
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Author: Natasha Elkington
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - More than a year after a stray police bullet tore through his chest, paralysing him from the waist down, George Ifedha winces in pain from bed sores that have been left to fester.
Ifedha's neighbours carefully peel away the newspaper covering his oozing wound, releasing the stench of rotting flesh that then fills his home in Nairobi's teeming Kibera slum.
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