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GLOBAL: Tomorrow's Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation - Overview

Photo: Victoria Hazou/IRIN
A young girl carries a bag of recyclable items she has found while rummaging through piles of rubbish in the neighborhood of Manchiat Nasser, Cairo, Egypt, March 2007.
Somewhere, some time this year, a baby will be born on the 25th floor of a city hospital or the dirt floor of a dark slum shack; a first-year college graduate will rent a cramped apartment in lower Manhattan or a family of five will finally concede their plot of farm land to an encroaching desert - or sea - and turn towards Jakarta or La Paz or Lagos in search of a new livelihood and a new home. The arrival of this family or graduate or baby will tip the world’s demographic scale and, for the first time in history, more than half the human population will live in cities.full report

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FRONTLINE REPORTS
Water and Health in the City
• NEPAL: Impoverished urban squatters face high risk of poor health
• ZIMBABWE: Greater centralisation threatens city's water supplies
• IRAQ: Insecurity and lack of funds prevent cleansing of polluted sites
• GLOBAL: Health, environment threatened by future urban growth
Employment and Food Security
• SIERRA LEONE: “An idle mind is a devil’s workshop”
• NIGER: Teacher strikes and student protests “jeopardising”education
• Ancilla Riziki: “We live on rich people’s garbage”
• ZIMBABWE: Poor quality garbage tells a tale
Sex in the City
• SWAZILAND: Hard times raise levels of abuse
• Alaa al-Bouz, Beirut, “I was taken to an orphanage when I was too young to even remember"
• UGANDA: Glum HIV/AIDS outlook for Kampala's slum dwellers
• ETHIOPIA: Urban farming boosts families affected by HIV
Housing, Land and Governance
• PAKISTAN: Cities teem with homeless, vulnerable people
• EGYPT: Locals help transform their shanty town
• SOUTH AFRICA:Winter freeze highlights homeless crisis
• IRAQ: Drug abuse among children on the rise
Natural Disasters and the Environment
•  IRAQ: River Tigris becoming a graveyard of bodies
•  KENYA: Earthquake scare highlights emergency response weaknesses
• NEPAL: Densely-populated Kathmandu facing increased earthquake risk
• NIGERIA: Chlorine gas from water plant kills three in southeast
Violence in the City
• OPT: Gaza violence hampering aid deliveries, say humanitarian workers
• GUINEA: Soldiers continue looting after president concedes to demands
• MOZAMBIQUE: Lynchings symptom of state failure
• PAKISTAN: Karachi violence stokes renewed ethnic tension
 
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