Emma Batha
Emma Batha joined AlertNet in 2005 after four years on the Reuters international editing desk in London. She has previously worked as a reporter on the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and was Asia Pacific editor at BBC News Online.
Testing time as aid agencies rush to help Myanmar
Author: Ruth Gidley
and Emma Batha Myanmar is coming under increasing pressure to throw open its doors to international aid workers and relief supplies. It is almost a week since Cyclone Nargis slammed into the country yet aid has barely started trickling in. Agencies say they would normally expect to fly in experts and supplies within 48 hours of a disaster. But few international groups have been able to send reinforcements to Myanmar. Aid workers' experiences of dealing with the fiercely secretive military junta have been mixed. ...
Author: Ruth Gidley
and Emma Batha Myanmar is coming under increasing pressure to throw open its doors to international aid workers and relief supplies. It is almost a week since Cyclone Nargis slammed into the country yet aid has barely started trickling in. Agencies say they would normally expect to fly in experts and supplies within 48 hours of a disaster. But few international groups have been able to send reinforcements to Myanmar. Aid workers' experiences of dealing with the fiercely secretive military junta have been mixed. ...
What do we do about climate change migrants?
Author: Emma Batha
If you are forced to flee abroad because of war you will be recognised as a refugee under international law. But what happens if you're forced to move because your village disappears under rising sea levels caused by global warming? Does the world have a duty to help? Should there be an onus on countries with the largest carbon footprints to take in the people rendered homeless by climate change? ...
Author: Emma Batha
If you are forced to flee abroad because of war you will be recognised as a refugee under international law. But what happens if you're forced to move because your village disappears under rising sea levels caused by global warming? Does the world have a duty to help? Should there be an onus on countries with the largest carbon footprints to take in the people rendered homeless by climate change? ...
Climate change, a TV experiment and pesky mozzies
Author: Emma Batha
If you feel that climate change is just too daunting a problem for one person to do anything about, then here's a story from Bangkok to make you think again ... Oxford University professor Norman Myers describes how he was watching television in a hotel in the Thai capital when the presenter announced that he wanted viewers to join in an experiment. ...
Author: Emma Batha
If you feel that climate change is just too daunting a problem for one person to do anything about, then here's a story from Bangkok to make you think again ... Oxford University professor Norman Myers describes how he was watching television in a hotel in the Thai capital when the presenter announced that he wanted viewers to join in an experiment. ...
Hunger "tsunami" will hit next generation, UN aid chief
Author: Emma Batha
The world food crisis will have serious knock-on effects in years to come, the U.N. humanitarian chief said this week, echoing experts' warnings of a "silent rolling tsunami". John Holmes, the U.N. Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, said the steep hike in food prices, which has already triggered unrest around the globe, had the potential to create conflict and political instability. ...
Author: Emma Batha
The world food crisis will have serious knock-on effects in years to come, the U.N. humanitarian chief said this week, echoing experts' warnings of a "silent rolling tsunami". John Holmes, the U.N. Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, said the steep hike in food prices, which has already triggered unrest around the globe, had the potential to create conflict and political instability. ...
Myanmar army raping with impunity, say Karen activists
Author: Emma Batha
Soldiers in eastern Myanmar are raping with impunity, according to a rights group. Their victims, villagers from the Karen minority, have reportedly included children and nuns.
Activists say that in one case a young woman was gang-raped by four soldiers in her home. They then killed her by shooting into her vagina. No action was taken against the soldiers.
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Author: Emma Batha
Soldiers in eastern Myanmar are raping with impunity, according to a rights group. Their victims, villagers from the Karen minority, have reportedly included children and nuns.
Activists say that in one case a young woman was gang-raped by four soldiers in her home. They then killed her by shooting into her vagina. No action was taken against the soldiers.
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