- The UK's Department for International Development released a new strategic framework that focuses more directly on economic development. Owen Barder offers an excellent analysis of what's missing.
- Another great piece on PNG from Jo Chandler. This one on logging, land grabs, and the demise of PNG's rainforests.
- During her visit first visit to PNG as Australia's foreign minister last week, Julie Bishop announced funding to establish a family and sexual violence case management centre in Lae. Kudos to Stephen Howes and his team at @DevPolicy for helping to get this off the ground.
- In China, life expectancy in the north has decreased by 5.5 years due to air pollution. Check out CFR's primer on the subject.
- Why the United Nations is Kept Weak: opinion piece from Kishore Manhubani, former Singaporean ambassador to the UN.
- A Kickstarter campaign from Fotoevidence to help fund the publication of a successful photo exhibition, Crying Meri, which documents domestic violence against women in PNG.
- And on the same theme: a powerful video from the NY Times highlighting how the issue effects the victims and the community. (Thanks Danielle.)
- Watch the trailer for Afghan Cycles, about the fledgling female cycling scene in Afghanistan. 'Biking with fear and trembling doesn't work...one must throw these feelings to the wind'.
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