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Living With Risk and Learning from Disaster Post-Sandy

Rosemary McCarney | Posted 01.16.2013 | Canada Impact
Read More: Sandy, Plan Canada, Plan International, International Development, Humanitarian Intervention, Disaster, Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, Rosemary McCarney, Humanitarian Aid, Canada Impact News
Rosemary McCarney

Hurricane Sandy certainly got our attention. Billions of dollars (and counting) in damages. Communities crippled and left in the cold without electricity. Nearly 200 lives lost. Sadly, with the stark realities of climate change and frequency of extreme weather events, this likely won't be the last natural disaster we experience or witness in our lifetime or even this decade. So, what are we to do about that?

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Food for Thought on World Refugee Day

Rosemary McCarney | Posted 08.18.2012 | Canada
Read More: Refugee Camps, Tories, Conservatives, Sudan, Africa, Omnibus Bill, Plan International, Immigrants, Harper Government, Tory Government, Water Shortages, Bill C-31, Refugees, C-31, Canada News
Rosemary McCarney

There are an estimated 12 million displaced people on the planet at this moment and most of them are children. News of this came around the same time as the controversy surrounding Bill C-31, and the way the Harper government wants to crack down on immigration and refugees. But this World Refugee Day, let's be careful and conscious in our assessment of exactly who these people are.

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The "Missing" Generation of Girls

John Laforet | Posted 01.09.2012 | Canada
Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Plan International, Sex Selective Abortion, Population Control, Abortion Rights, Let Girls Be Born, Sex Ratio Imbalance, One Child Policy, India, Girls-Rights, China, Sex-Ratio, Mara Hvistendahl, Gender Imbalance, Over Population, Seven Billion People, Female Feticide, Canada News
John Laforet

It has been estimated that since the 1970s approximately 163 million girls have not been born due to sex selective abortions. In other words, couples waited until an ultrasound could determine the sex of the fetus and aborted because the fetus was female, resulting in 163 million girls not being born over the last 30 years.

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