Natasha Elkington
Natasha Elkington is an AlertNet journalist based in London. She has previously worked as a TV producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and as an online editor and reporter for Reuters in Toronto. She has also done freelance photography for various publications. Originally from Kenya, she speaks multiple languages and has a passion for the arts and humanitarian issues.
"War on terror" used to target minorities - report
LONDON - Countries on the front line in the "war on terror" are using the battle against extremists as a smokescreen to crack down on minority groups, according to an international human rights group. For the fourth straight year, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan topped an annual index compiled by Minority Rights Group International (MRG) of countries where minorities are most at risk of genocide, mass killings or violent repression. ...
Donors urged to tackle leading killer of under-fives - reports
Outside Kenya's biggest slum, one-year-old Michelle Wabuira sits silently in her mother's arms, her eyes sunken and struggling to keep her head up. She has diarrhoea, the second biggest killer of children under five. Michelle is one of millions of children who will get diarrhoea this year, nearly a fifth of whom will die. That's 1.6 million children killed every year by what aid workers say is an entirely preventable disease. ...
Africa's children bear scars of trauma in silence - report
In Burkino Faso, a young girl watches her father's throat being slit and her older brother being burnt alive by rebel soldiers. A 12-year-old girl from Sierra Leone is caught by rebels and forced to have sex with them. A teenage boy from Liberia witnesses his mother being skinned alive while trying to flee to a Guinea refugee camp. These are just some of the stories shared in a new report released by Plan International that found children in West and Central Africa are suffering extreme psychological trauma as a result of civil war, ethnic cleansing, AIDS and trafficking. ...
Aid workers in Afghanistan need neutrality to survive - report
As U.S. President Barack Obama promises to send more troops to Afghanistan, a new report says there must be a clearer separation between military operations and humanitarian work, if the aid world is to succeed in helping and protecting those at risk in the war-torn country. The research from the Feinstein International Centre, of the US-based Tufts University, found that humanitarian work is under threat in the country because of a perceived link between aid agencies and the US-led intervention. ...
Economic crisis prompts calls for more fair trade
The global financial meltdown underlines an urgent need for greater support for small-scale agriculture to battle rising hunger and help farmers in developing countries weather stormy times, fair trade activists say. Farmers who belong to the fair trade movement - which advocates fair prices and sustainable agriculture - say they get some protection from wild market fluctuations exacerbated by the economic crisis. ...
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