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Childhood stunting
By Samuel Burke & Mick Krever, CNN
Millions of children around the world are threatened with death, lowered I.Q. and deformities by a life-altering condition - one that can be avoided simply by eating enough nutrients. It's called "stunting."
The vitamins and the nutrients that a child receives in the first two years of life will literally impact that child's entire future.
Stunting threatens 180 million children below the age of five all over the world.
To discuss this phenomenon CNN's Christiane Amanpour was joined by the head of UNICEF, Anthony Lake, as well as Angelique Kidjo. She is a Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter, as well as UNICEF goodwill ambassador. She recently traveled to Kenya, where more than two million children suffer from stunting.
CNN’s Juliet Fuisz produced this piece for television.
Angelique Kidjo gives impromptu concert in the newsroom
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Singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo gave the CNN newsroom an impromptu concert after today's show on childhood stunting, which is caused by long-term insufficient nutrient intake and frequent infections.
America at a crossroads
Historian Simon Schama says the next president needs to address the role of government and social fairness.
Amanpour: How Obama and Romney see Iran’s nuclear ambition
This is part of a series on foreign policy issues Christiane Amanpour is analyzing in the-lead up to next week’s presidential debate on foreign affairs.
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN & ABC
The international war of nerves over Iran ebbs and flows.
Talk that Israel, the United States, or both might launch a pre-emptive military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities has been ever-present this year - but with the U.S. presidential election less than a month away, the idea of starting another war in the Middle East seems to have faded, at least for now.
Robert Gates, former U.S. Secretary of Defense under both Presidents Obama and George W. Bush, said in a speech this week: “The results of an American or Israeli military strike on Iran could, in my view, prove catastrophic, haunting us for generations in that part of the world."
“(A strike would) make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable. They would just bury the program deeper and make it more covert," he said.
Iran and its nuclear ambitions present perhaps the most difficult strategic dilemma in the world today, directly affecting Israel, Arab states, Europe and of course the United States. FULL POST
One-million-dollar bounty in Malala’s attack
By Samuel Burke & Mick Krever, CNN
The Pakistani Interior Minister said Thursday that the plan to shoot Malala Yousafzai was hatched across Pakistan’s border, in Afghanistan.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Rehman Malik implicated Pakistani Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah in Malala’s shooting. Malik said Fazlullah fled to Afghanistan during a Pakistani offensive in its Swat region.
“Four people came from there,” the interior minister told Amanpour. He also indicated that Pakistani authorities may have had previous knowledge of the planning of some type of attack.
“At that point of time we did not know exactly what there objectives were, and what type of action they were going to take, until they hit Malala.” FULL POST
The Malalas you'll never meet
By Gayle Lemmon, author
The attempted assassination in Pakistan of fourteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai by Taliban shooters is only the latest and most brazen attack on leaders brave enough to defy death threats and fight for a girl’s right to go to school.
Earlier this week gunmen boarded Malala’s school van, asked for her by name and shot her. The teenager now fights for her life in a hospital and receives visits from dignitaries who until her attempted assassination had not dared to challenge publicly the kind of extremism that views educated girls as an existential threat.
But there are many Malalas whose stories rarely are heard. Just as this courageous girl refused to silently abandon her right to education even at the risk of losing her life, women and men fight daily against a worldview that considers girls’ schools a call to action in their battle against modernity. Only Wednesday these fighters struck again in Afghanistan, bombing a girls’ high school in the largely peaceful Bamyan province. And their stories serve as a reminder of the stakes involved in the fight against extremism and for modernity. FULL POST
A woman once in Malala’s shoes
By Samuel Burke
Shabana Basij-Rasikh was six years old when the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan.
To get an education she enrolled in a network of underground classrooms.
Hearing the story of Malala – the teenage blogger and rights activist, shot by the Pakistani Taliban - Shabana says it could have been her.
When she was fighting to get her own education in Afghanistan, she constantly feared she would be caught by the Taliban and often saw no clear future for women.
“I was scared. I didn't want to continue. I didn't want to be killed by the Taliban. My parents, they were always the ones who kept pushing.” FULL POST
Pakistan’s FM: Malala attack possible turning point for Pakistan
By Samuel Burke, CNN
The Taliban attack on 14-year old Malala Yousafzai has galvanized outrage and support for Malala across Pakistan and around the world.
The teenage blogger is in critical condition after being shot on Tuesday.
The attack on Malala has raised questions about whether Pakistan’s government, its military and its intelligence services are in fact committed to the defeat of Taliban militancy.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, said Pakistani authorities have already made approximately one-hundred arrests in sweeps related to the attack on Malala.
Khar said the “TTP,” (Tehrik-i-Taliban or Pakistani Taliban) has already taken responsibility for the shooting.
She said smaller groups comprise the Pakistani Taliban and previously, one of those groups had intended to attack Malala, but Pakistani authorities were able to detain them before it was carried out.
Khar says the Interior Ministry has informed her it is “very confident” that it will find the perpetrators.
Khar, who is the first woman to hold the post of Foreign Minister in Pakistan, says this is a “wakeup call.” FULL POST
One out of three women will be raped, beaten in her lifetime
“One out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime,” author and activist Eve Ensler told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
Ensler wrote the worldwide sensation, "The Vagina Monologues.”
She is working to raise awareness about atrocities against women – including genital mutilation, rape, domestic abuse and trafficking.
A short film, called One Billion Rising launched a campaign by the same name, which aims to get a billion people all around the globe to stand up against violence committed against women on “V-Day,” which will be February 14th next year.
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Part of her campaign is a call to the one billion women and “all the men who love them” to walk out of their jobs on February 14 to raise awareness about a violence against women.
You can visit the movement’s website at onebillionrising.org
CNN’s Juliet Fuisz produced this piece for television.
What really happened in Libya on September 11th?
By Samuel Burke, CNN
What really happened before and during the assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11th?
The U.S. State Department has now made it clear that it was a terrorist attack, not a reaction to that anti-Islamic video that caused so much protest in the Muslim world.
Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the onslaught on the mission.
Wednesday, the U.S. Congress held a politically charged hearing in the heated environment of the upcoming presidential election. FULL POST
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