13 November 2009
In June 2008 I wrote a report for NGO ActionAid on India’s disappearing daughters. The report was based on new research from India that showed that sex-selective abortions and systematic neglect of girl children is on the increase. It is estimated that around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over [...]
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13 November 2009
Twenty-five years ago, Miguel Boyero was aboard the Argentinian warship the General Belgrano when it was sunk by torpedoes fired from a British submarine at the start of the Falkland Islands war. Boyero survived; 329 of his comrades died. Last month, Boyero hanged himself just days after the start of the war’s 25th anniversary commemorations. He [...]
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13 November 2009
In September 2004, 150km-an-hour winds hit the small Caribbean island of Grenada, flattening 95% of buildings, killing dozens and making thousands homeless. Jenny Gilchrist, a local woman from the parish of St David’s, remembers the devastation which greeted her the morning after the storm hit. “Our island was destroyed, my house had the roof ripped clean off, [...]
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12 November 2009
When the first white cranes started appearing on the banks of the Rio Coco, deep in the Nicaraguan rainforest, Marciano Washington told his sons to start preparing the family’s three hectares of land for planting. A month later, the weather-beaten Miskito elder from the town of San Carlos shades his eyes from the baking sun and [...]
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12 November 2009
There is an old proverb, beloved of fisherfolk in Pakistan, that says when all else fails the sea will provide. Now, after centuries of surviving on fish such as the tuna and shrimp that thrive in Pakistan’s coastal waters, many traditional fishing communities are facing ruin as the sea is stripped bare by foreign trawler [...]
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12 November 2009
Oil spills, shipwrecks, dumped waste, a proposed road to the South Pole, an ill-advised nuclear reactor – human interaction in Antarctica has a history of pushing the last great wilderness to the edge of ecological disaster. Now, apart from climate change, which is breaking off great chunks of ice, mass tourism is the greatest threat [...]
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Annie Kelly is a multimedia journalist who covers human rights, international development and social affairs for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers and other international media.
She is currently based in Buenos Aires and London.
To find out more about Annie, visit her About Me page.
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