This is a great post by Bill Easterly, of White Man’s Burden fame, over at his blog, “Aid Watch”. It deals with the problems faced when attempting to lump poverty and human rights together, as Amnesty International has done in its 2009 report. It slows down the solutions to both.
Chris Blattman also touches on this here.
P.S. I should have a post or two more going up today before I leave for Uganda tomorrow and they become much more sporadic.
(via Chris Blattman’s Blog)
“‘Ida Odinga, wife of Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga, has joined a Lysistrata-like nationwide sex boycott aimed at forcing the countries leaders to overcome a political impasse.
Kenyan women’s groups started the boycott in an effort to end the feud between the factions led by Mr. Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki that has paralyzed Kenya’s government for weeks. Kenya’s Federation of Women Lawyers has urged the wives of both leaders to withold sex from their husbands until the feud is resolved.’
You can’t make this stuff up. Via FP.”
This is wonderful, and if it works it’s going to have a lot of world leaders sweating. Play nice or forget about the strange.
