A billion lives
Subtitle: an eyewitness report from the frontlines of humanity
By: Jan Egeland
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781416560968
Subjects: Violence; Social problems; Disasters; Social history
Description: A report on the world's most dangerous regions as profiled by a high-ranking United Nations diplomat discusses what is happening in places that have been devastated by civil wars, natural disasters, and other critical challenges.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-240) and index.
Table of contents: title: Always speak the truth; title: The bombs in Baghdad; title: No end to violence in Colombia; title: Scorched earth in Darfur; title: Tsunami!; title: More dead children than soldiers in the Middle East; title: The birth, life, and death of the Oslo Accord; title: "Tents are for Arabs"; title: Uganda's twenty thousand kidnapped children; title: The generation that can end the suffering.