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Standing in Support of Sexual Violence Survivors
2016-10-20 01:49:07| PortlandOnline
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Homeless Nepal quake survivors fear climate shocks
2016-04-25 14:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal a year ago, 25-year-old Yama Tamang lost his farm, where he used to grow maize. To support his wife and their three children, he now makes bamboo baskets in the Daamgade temporary camp in Dhading district, 90 km (56 miles) from the capital, Kathmandu. The baskets are used on construction sites for carrying materials like stones and cement. Daamgade, one of seven camps set up in Dhading, shelters 131 families, most of whom also make baskets for a...
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Building Credit and Assets: Helping Survivors Recover from Economic Abuse
2016-03-31 18:40:38| PortlandOnline
This special collection explores credit, asset building, and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), their intersections, and how they can be leveraged to better support economic justice for survivors of domestic violence.
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For Ethiopia's famine survivors, new drought stirs hunger and fear
2016-03-01 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When drought and pests decimated their farm in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, 10-year-old Eseye Tiruneh and her family boarded a bus, fleeing the starvation all around them. It was 1985 and Ethiopia was in the grip of its worst famine, which killed around one million people. Ethiopia's communist regime resettled Eseye's family in Wollega, over 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest, as part of an ambitious plan to move more than a million people from the drought-affected north, where it was fighting...
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Pesticide-induced mosquito death outweighs fitness advantage of survivors
2016-02-15 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A common toxin used to kill yellow fever mosquito larvae -- the most prevalent transmitter of dengue, chikungunya and zika viruses -- is highly effective. While there are some fitness advantages to surviving adults, this is still an effective way to control the damaging health impacts of these mosquito-borne diseases, a new University of Florida study shows. Scientists and mosquito control officials want to kill mosquitoes during the larval, or juvenile stage, before they grow into adulthood and...
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