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14 stories tagged ‘Humanitarian’
Sullenberger receives Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award
For safely landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River and saving the lives of his passengers, the Harvard Foundation will present the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award to skillful pilot and airline safety expert Chesley Sullenberger on Nov. 11 at Memorial Church at 6 p.m.
The two men sit close, knees almost touching, in a mud-walled hut in the Congolese village of Katokota.
Imani was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe found her on the road in a remote region in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Simulating chaos to teach order
A troubled piece of Africa came to North Andover, Mass., last weekend (April 24-26) as more than 50 students from a collaborative, three-university humanitarian program took part in a hands-on outdoor field course that simulated an emergency on the border between Chad and Sudan’s troubled Darfur region.
Imani was just 15 when soldiers from the rebel group Interahamwe found her on the road in a remote region in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Harvard's partnership with a Congolese hospital seeks to understand the causes of the violence against women that hangs like a toxic cloud over a huge swath of this enormous country in Africa’s midsection.
Disasters, and how to cope with them
Nine out of 10 disasters in the world are related to climate change — the consequence of “a new normal of extreme weather,” said Sir John Holmes. He talked about an accelerating pace of floods, drought, heat waves, and catastrophic storms.
“I just want to see how bad things are in the clinic,” Jennifer Furin said, grabbing a stethoscope from her bag and heading out the door of the small stone house perched on a Lesotho mountainside. “It’s a ‘doctor fear’ that someone is bleeding out while I’m standing here eating chocolate.”
Paul Farmer: One patient at a time
Paul Farmer remembers his patients and the lessons they've taught him, even the hard ones.
The literary roots of human rights
The aim was determining the truth and the technique was torture. Pain was administered in secret, under strict guidelines, often with a judge and doctor present. Once a suspect confessed, the confession would have to be repeated in court.
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