01-01-1999 A collection of messages brought at the Washington Forum for all attending to deepen their understanding of worldwide humanitarian needs and issues and to become better informed onthe subject.
01-01-1961 A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist,The Children of Sanchezis hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty—a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published. It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told entirely by...
The Uses of Haititells the truth about uncomfortable matters—uncomfortable, that is, for the structures of power and the doctrinal framework that protects them from scrutiny. It tells the truth about what has been happening in Haiti, and the US role in its bitter fate.—Noam Chomsky, from the...
This report presents a collection of papers discussed at the 24th Session of the United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition, held in March 1997 Kathmandu. The Symposium presenters and discussants traced the origins of child malnutrition to low birth weight, maternal deprivation and discrimination...