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GEO-FORENSICS? When Satellite Experts Take a Closer Look at Human Rights Cases

Billion dollars are invested yearly in very sophisticated satellite observation technology used in the intelligence world. But today this world is losing the monopoly of accurate geospatial information: interdependent, inter-linked systems give new users new perspectives on the information age, more access to data, more outreach, more of just about anything. Some of these advancements have become available to everyone through commercial enterprises and may be useful in improving old ways of doing things in the international community arena….

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NUTRITION IN A NUTSHELL? Interview with Huub Verhagen of Medecins sans Frontieres

The Norwegian documentary film “The Famine Scam”, about the so-called famine in Niger in 2005, was awarded the Scandinavian prize for the best documentary film. This documentary basically stated that humanitarian actors like M?decins sans Fronti?res (MSF) and the media exaggerated the situation and that there was no “famine” in Niger. The image of the Norwegian Section of MSF suffered, because as Jan Egeland said, the UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator at that time, the figures he had received from MSF…

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