Protesters in Beirut forced a branch of coffee chain Starbucks to close today after anger directed towards the ongoing war in Gaza.
An immediate boycott of Israeli products has been urged across the Arab world after day 19 of the conflict has seen 1,010 people killed and over4,000 injured.
A young teenager walks into the room followed by her father. They both sit and talk politely. This is no ordinary family. This is the Hussein family who immigrated to Scotland from the Gaza Strip in Palestine back in 2000.
The father, Ghazi Hussein, decided to settle in Glasgow after a gruelling life in one of the most war ridden places in the world: Palestine.
He says: “When we arrived here I had a feeling things were going to get better. Everything in this country is so different to what I’m used to. My family and I were so overwhelmed. The culture and people of this country changed me as a person forever.”
Ghazi Hussein in Edinburgh
Over 3 million people are facing another harsh winter in Pakistan’s northern regions, a year on from the earthquake according to Oxfam Scotland.
An estimated 86,000 people lost their lives in what is the biggest South Asian earthquake to date. And still, the aid and relief isn’t reaching the people in need.
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We are all familiar with the Oxfam adverts on billboards of young starving children with the look of despair in their eyes. We know about the latest celebrity endorsed campaign by Sir Bono to Make Poverty History. But what happens when you come face to face with a starving child?
Welcome to Zambia. Full of mineral rich copper and David Livingstone’s famously named Victoria Falls after the Queen, this landlocked country is one of the most impoverished countries in the world.
With a population of just under 12 million, HIV, AIDS, and alcoholism are only a few increasing killers in a country at the centre of Africa’s horn.
The average life expectancy is 38-years-old and there is only one doctor to every 3,000 people. A UN survey of 2006 showed that 78% of the country is living on $1 a day.
Alcoholism is also on the rise. The alcohol most Zambians drink is not like the average pint we have here in the UK. Commonly found in rural tribal villages, is home made and often contains poisonous lead along with other deadly chemicals. (more…)
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