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Contributions from
the Column
Monitor
Development finance: New confidence in emerging markets
WHO Commission: patents harm health
Increasing arms expenditure
Too early to lift Liberia embargo, says NGO
Somalia: Mogadishu’s new rulers
GTZ gets more business from abroad
What the UN wants the world to know more about
Drug eradication: The limits of „alternative development“
07/2006
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What the UN wants
the world to know more about
For the third time since 2004, the UN Department of Public Information has published a list of ten topics that have been given too little attention by the media and which should have enjoyed more widespread reporting. These include the situation in Liberia since the end of the civil war (see D+C/E+Z 5/2006, p. 206), the fate of asylum seekers throughout the world, the impact of the conflict in Nepal on children, the precarious security situation in Somalia (see article on opposite page), the reconstruction efforts after the earthquake in Pakistan (see D+C/E+Z 12/2005, p. 483), the peace-building potential of cross-border water management (see D+C/E+Z 3/2006, p. 100) and the situation in Côte d’Ivoire. Shashi Tharoor, UN Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, said at the unveiling of the list that journalists are often inundated with stories that compete for the public’s attention. “Our aim is to make it easier for them to see that important issues do not fade from the headlines.” (ell)
On the internet:
http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/index.asp
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