Happy 4th Birthday to charity:water and Some Words of Encouragement

Today, our friends at charity:water turned 4 years old. Every year to celebrate their anniversary, charity:water drills a clean water well and broadcasts it live to the world. This year, things are not going quite as planned: So, the bad news is that the drill today did not work. As charity:water founder Scott Harrison says [...]

Taking Lessons Learned From Natural Disaster Response and Applying To Mass Atrocity Response in Sudan

PHOTO: A CH-46E Sea Kinight Helicopter serves an area affected by the February 17 landslide in Saint Bernard, Republic of the Philippines, February 19, 2006. (UPI Photo/ Michael D. Kennedy/US NAVY) An Operation Broken Silence Op-Ed by Mark Christopher Hackett Natural disasters and mass atrocities have many things in common, most notably the ability to [...]

Sudanese Regime Committing Genocide At Kalma Camp in Darfur

There is a common misunderstanding in our world that genocide means using guns to kill a targeted group. However, from a legal standpoint, genocide is much more than that. The U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide: any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in [...]

Central African Republic: U.N. Outlines Options to Combat Security Threats

From the UN News Centre: The United Nations has proposed strengthening the capacities of the Central African Republic (CAR) to enable it to effectively tackle security and humanitarian challenges when the world body’s peacekeepers withdraw from the country at the end of this year. The UN Mission in the CAR and Chad (MINURCAT) was set [...]

FP: The Fastest to Die

You Can Help the People of Central African Republic by donating to our charity:water campaign here. From Foreign Policy: A study reveals how deeply the wounds of conflict have cut the Central African Republic — and not where you would expect. On July 30, the president of the Central African Republic, an eccentric army chief [...]

Charity:water Launches September Campaign 2010

Donate to our charity:water campaign here!

TAKE ACTION: Combatting the World Water Crisis

Water can change everything when it comes to rebuilding communities and providing clean drinking water. We’ll let charity:water explain that part from the community standpoint: 1. The walk for water that used to take everyone here three hours, now takes 15 minutes. And the water is safe to drink. 2. A hygiene worker teaches your village [...]

TAKE ACTION: Preventing and Ending Genocide

There are a seemingly endless number of things we as individuals can do to help eradicate eliminationism and genocide from  our world. 1. Inform Your Network, Break Your Silence This is a bold step. How do we get others to care about preventing genocide and ending current ones? How do we as individuals combat eliminationism? [...]

Behind the Scenes at OBS…

July is proving to be one of the busiest months in our history. For the remainder of this month, we will be focusing on building ourselves as a movement as we complete multiple projects that will set us up for success. We’re moving forward! Here’s a behind the scenes look at what we’re up to: [...]

Study: Africa’s Water Most Precarious, Iceland Best

The risk of intra and cross border conflicts will continue to grow in Africa over the coming years as lack of access to clean drinking water continues to threaten stability in many war-torn and/or impoverished regions. Reuters reports: African nations led by Somalia, Mauritania and Sudan have the most precarious water supplies in the world while [...]

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