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Red Cross Report: Unsafe Water Kills Millions 红十字协会称不洁净的水威胁数百万人的生命 The International Red Cross reports more than one billion people do not have access to safe w

2007年VOA标准英语-Human Rights Group Seeks Accounting of Ethiopia

By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 27 August 2007 An Ethiopian human rights group is demanding that the United States and other international donors monitor the food and financial aid they give to Ethiopia for its impoverished Ogaden region. As Nick Wadhams rep

voa标准英语2008年-Zimbabwe Tells Annan, Carter to Postpone Humani

The government of Zimbabwe has told a group of eminent individuals, including former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, to postpone a planned visit to the country. VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our southern Africa bureau in Johannesbu

voa标准英语2008-EU Calls for Zimbabwe's Mugabe to Step Down

The European Union has added its voice to calls by the United States for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to step down. EU foreign ministers also announced Monday they were tightening sanctions against the Mugabe government. European Union foreign

voa标准英语2008-Zimbabwe Opposition Says Constitutional Amendmen

In Zimbabwe, a proposed constitutional amendment to create a unity government has been published, paving the way for parliament to take up the matter. But, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change says negotiations over power-sharing must be co

VOA标准英语 Southern Africa Floods Affect Hundreds of Thousands

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported excessive rainfall is causing havoc with the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in seven Southern African countries. People take the high road to p

VOA标准英语2009年-Zimbabwe Leaders Resume Power Sharing Talks

Leaders of Zimbabwe's three main political parties have begun negotiations to implement a stalled power-sharing agreement aimed at ending 10 months of political stalemate. The two major parties appeared to harden their positions on the eve of the ta

VOA标准英语2010年-Urbanization Puts Public Health at Gro

Nations predicts that number will rise to 70 percent by 2050. Urban health challengesHealth researchers, practitioners, policymakers and academics from 45 countries came to the New York Academy of Medicine to discuss a wide and growing array of urban

VOA标准英语2010年-Chad Hit by Worst Floods in Four Decad

The U.N. refugee agency reports torrential rains in Chad are affecting about 150,000 people. The UNHCR says more than one-third of the flood-affected victims are refugees, mainly from the Central African Republic. Heavy rains have been pummeling Chad

VOA常速英语2105--气候变化对健康的影响

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: More than 400,000 Muslim-minority Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in just the past three weeks. This huge number of people is straining the capacity of aid agencies on the ground and of the Bangladesh government, and more

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Friedrich Hegel 弗里德里希黑格尔 Hegel was born in Stuttgart on August 27,1770, the son of an official. Urged by his pietist father to enter the clergy, he registered in the Tubingen Lutheran seminary in 1788. A fair student, Hegel generally

英语听力：自然百科 虫虫兄弟—16

Ticks can spread a huge variety of diseases, and pass them all along at the same time through just one bite. Claw in the air as they search for a host, there is no hurry. Ticks can't fly and they crawl so slowly that their greatest skill is patience.

2006年VOA标准英语-Scientists Hoping to Beat African Disease

By Joe Bavier Dantchandou, Niger 10 April 2006 Scientists in Niger, the world's poorest country, are using a new high-tech satellite transmission system to help with rural health care. The network of

VOA常速英语2007年-Humanitarian Crisis in DRC Worsens

By Selah Hennessy Goma, DRC 19 December 2007 The international medical organization Doctors Without Borders says the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rapidly deteriorating. An armed conflict in the east of the country has

2007年VOA标准英语-Malnutrition Alarming in Kenya Refugee Camps

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 03 July 2007 Somali woman holding her child at a Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya (File Photo) U.N. agencies are warning malnutrition rates in refugee camps in Kenya have reached alarming levels. The U.N. Refugee Agency, W

VOA标准英语2008年-Aid Groups, Governments Appeal for More Access

By Kent Klein Washington 09 May 2008 Days after a deadly cyclone swept through Burma, governments and aid organizations around the world are ready to help, but Burma's military government has allowed very few aid workers to enter the country. As VOA'

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U.N. aid agencies say Zimbabwe is grappling with a cholera crisis of unprecedented proportions. They say the social and health breakdown in the country is making it difficult to gauge the full extent of the epidemic. 联合国援助机构说，津巴布

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warns diarrheal diseases, such as cholera, are on the rise and increasingly becoming a major cause of death throughout the world - especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The Red Cross sa

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Burma has agreed to allow foreign medical teams into regions hit by Cyclone Nargis. The agreement, reached during a meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nations, comes ahead of a visit to Burma this week by the United Nations secretary-gene