Ontwikkelingssamenwerking The Movie promises to be a funny movie about two glam boys from Holland searching for the best clip for an advertisement in Africa… And it’s about how development is supposed to be… Expected to be in cinemas next spring.

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If we believe what we see in the media, the world is on fire. The conflict in the Middle East is at the boiling point, African tribes are fighting bloody feuds, terrorism is spreading everywhere. The impression we get is that conflicts are increasing all around the globe while the stockpile of deadly weapons constantly [...]

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The world’s population is growing and water consumption is increasing, but water resources are decreasing. “The world is running out of water,” stated Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow, activists and experts on water issues, in their article “Water Wars,” published by the Polaris Institute in 2003. They said that by 2025, world population would increase [...]

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The hard-line Ahmedinejad government continues to clamp down on basic freedoms of expression and access to information that were among the hallmarks of the reformist Khatami administration.
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The use of online video is a powerful new resource that empowers individuals to document and publicize injustices and human rights abuses. On the other hand, revealing the identity of victims can put their lives in danger. Sameer Padania is forced to walk the ethical tightrope when he discovers a video interview with a former [...]

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24th. of October there was again a fabulous Night of the UN (Nacht van de VN) in the Melkweg in Amsterdam. A night full of debates, workshops, concerts, interviews, films, BN’ers and a lot more. Little bit too much…

Foto Paul Hilkens

It’s amazing to see all those engaged young people walking around (I just can’t understand [...]

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A “palpable feeling of pride” has overcome the people of Bangladesh following Md. Yunus and the Grameen Bank’s claim to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, writes Aparna Ray. “Yet this event has also brought to the forefront a heated debate as the bloggers introspect on the pros and cons of the concept of microcredit as [...]

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India may be behind as far as development goes, but Indians are far happier than most in the planet. Certainly, more than the richer lot in G-8.
What could be a little disappointing is that compared with her neighbours in the sub-continent, Indians are happier than only Burmese and Pakistanis. In fact, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka [...]

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A quick surf through India’s wide spectrum of television channels, and your attention is easily drawn to promos for the Hindi-language Channel 7. Right now it is aggressively marketing its news show Citizen Journalist. This programme is a stage for citizen-journalists around the country to conceive, document and present a story of social and political [...]

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Bangladesh’s microcredit institution Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 for efforts in making funds available to the poorest of the poor through a grassroots organization.
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