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February 11, 2005
Scrooges or saviours?
The wealthiest countries aren't always the most generous with aid and trade to poorer ones.
Foreign Policy magazine (
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/) and the
Center for Global Development (
http://www.cgdev.org/) publish an annual ranking of the 21 wealthiest countries which shows how well they stack up as givers and how liberal they are on issues such as migration and technology policy. It's called
Ranking the Rich and it's at
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/files/story2540.php.
Australia is 4th (up from 19 in 2003 and tying with the UK), ahead of the US at 7. Canada is 6th.
Denmark and the Netherlands tie for first place.
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January 28, 2005
Now you see it ...
This site has
before and after satellite images of the Boxing Day 2004 Asian tsunami (
http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/). Locations include Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Use the button to toggle between images.
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With luck, you'll never need it
Identifying people killed in disasters like the Asian tsunami is a huge job. The
Disaster Victim Identification (
http://www.interpol.int/Public/DisasterVictim/) guide from
Interpol explains the steps, and should be handy for journos who have to cover such stories, whether after natural disasters, bombings or war atrocities.
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Tale of woe
UNICEF'S State of the World's Children 2005 (
http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/index.html) report lists war, poverty and HIV/AIDS as the main barriers to a normal life for more than a billion kids worldwide. That's a lot of blighted childhoods, and the report came out before the tsunami hit. Make that a billion plus now. Lots of detail here, statistics, analysis and maps to tell the sad story.
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January 06, 2005
Wiki on the tsunami
Wikipedia has a tsunami page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake. This is a collaborative effort that contains a chronology, animations, casualty information and counts, countries affected, information on which charities are doing what, and links to amateur photos and videos of the events in different places.
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January 05, 2005
Tsunami of tsunami news sites
Reuters AlertNet (
http://www.alertnet.org/) exists to highlight humanitarian emergencies around the world. The recent Asian tsunami is top of their list just now. Also handy are the special archives at news sites - the ABC's
Asia Tsunami Disaster at
http://abc.net.au/news/indepth/tsunami/ and the BBC's excellent
Asia Quake Disaster site at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2004/asia_quake_disaster/, which has audio, video, news, pictures, animations and more.
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November 04, 2002
Bali assistance web site from the government
The Commonwealth Government Information on the Bali Disaster site is at
http://www.baliassist.gov.au/ and offers information on travel, accommodation, healthcare, counselling, income support and funeral costs. Latest news is at
http://www.baliassist.gov.au/news.htm.
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