Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
URL: http://www.sigir.mil/
Website for “a temporary federal agency serving as a watchdog for fraud, waste, and abuse of funds intended for Iraq reconstruction programs.” Find reconstruction timelines and funding, reports to Congress back to 2004, audits, “lessons learned” reports, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and other publications. Includes instructions for submitting a compliant about Iraq reconstruction fraud, waste, or abuse.
UNICEF: Water, Environment and Sanitation
URL: http://www.unicef.org/wes/
Background and updates on drinking water and sanitation issues around the world, focusing on child and family health, hygiene, and access to sanitation facilities. Features stories about the impact of sanitation improvement activities, water and sanitation country profiles, statistics, video clips, and general and technical documents. From UNICEF.
Asians of the Century
URL: http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/cover1.html
This magazine feature from 1999 profiles influential Asians from the 20th century, such as Emperor Hirohito, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Issey Miyake, Sun Yat-sen, Mohandas Gandhi, Mao Zedong, King Rama, Akira Kurosawa, and the Dalai Lama. Includes an overview article and related pieces on global capitalism, women in Asia, and related topics. From Time magazine.
Special Report: India
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/india
News and analysis of topics about modern India, such as religion, child labor, relations with Pakistan and Europe, and its nuclear program. Also includes an “interactive guide to Britain’s pullout from India and the disaster that followed,” created on the occasion of the 60-year anniversary of the partition of India and Pakistan (2007), and historical coverage of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. From Guardian Unlimited, the website of British newspaper The Guardian.
International Year of Sanitation 2008
URL: http://esa.un.org/iys/
Details about the United Nations (UN) General Assembly declaration making 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. “The goal is to raise awareness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.” Provides an overview and updates on the project, and publications on topics such as hygiene promotion, sanitary facilities, water quality, and wastewater management. From the UN.
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