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Entries from May 2007

Darfur, China and the 2008 Olympic Games">Darfur, China and the 2008 Olympic Games

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments

An open letter to Darfur activists and advocates, by Eric Reeves.
The full-scale launch of a large, organized campaign to highlight China’s complicity in the Darfur genocide appears likely to begin soon. But it’s past time to start thinking about how to tap the creative power of students and other Darfur advocates in this critical initiative. [...]

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Tags: Developing Countries · Politics & International Relations · War & Terrorism

We need partners, not donor assistance!">We need partners, not donor assistance!

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Mr. Vasu Gounden is the founder and Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). Mr. Gounden, a co-author of the book ‘Shaping a new Africa’ (on alternative perspective for a viable Africa) held a workshop on African solutions for African conflicts in this year’s AFRIKADAG, the biggest Dutch [...]

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Tags: Developing Countries · Globalization & Global Culture · Politics & International Relations · World

Globalised World: Who Gains, Who Loses?">Globalised World: Who Gains, Who Loses?

May 24th, 2007 · No Comments

“Globalisation is really the best way to lift millions of people out of poverty because it increases trade; it increases job creation. It’s a positive force.” –Nandan Nilekani, CEO Infosys, Interview with San Francisco Chronicle, July 4, 2004 .

“Globalisation creates growth by destruction of the environment and of local livelihoods. It therefore creates poverty instead [...]

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Tags: Developing Countries · Globalization & Global Culture · Politics & International Relations · World

GM or organic: Where does India’s future lie?">GM or organic: Where does India’s future lie?

May 24th, 2007 · No Comments

(By Suman Sahai)
Does it make sense for India to forego its special status as a producer of GM-free agricultural foods, lose a secure market for its produce and incomes for its farmers, and start cultivating GM crops that no one will buy? Is the future not with organic farming?
According to the author, ‘It is embarrassing [...]

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Tags: Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Science

Kibera, by Jonas Bendiksen">Kibera, by Jonas Bendiksen

May 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Within the next few years, for the first time in history, more people will live in cities than in rural areas, and one of every three of them — about a billion of the planet’s urbanites — will live in slums like Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera, which is the size of [...]

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Tags: Developing Countries · Photography & journalism

Stephen Rwangyezi meets Idi Amin

May 6th, 2007 · No Comments

On the 8th of May, Stephen Rwangyezi, who played in The Last King of Scotland as the minister of Health Jonah Wasswa, will give a lecture about the psyche of Idi Amin and about leadership in Africa, at Studium Generale in Wageningen.
Rwangyezi also directs the Ndere Troupe, an traditional music and dance group from Uganda [...]

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Tags: Art & Culture · Developing Countries · Youth

Zambian wins ‘Nobel green prize’">Zambian wins ‘Nobel green prize’

May 6th, 2007 · No Comments

A Zambian man has won a prestigious Goldman Prize for helping to curb widespread elephant poaching by setting up economic projects for villagers.
Read more on BBC or at Living on Earth

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Tags: Developing Countries · Earth & Environment

Apple goes green">Apple goes green

May 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Greenpeace replays to Apple: “We are cheering! Steve Jobs has decided to bring us closer to the greener apple that Mac users all over the world have been asking for. Today we saw something we’ve all been waiting for: the words “A Greener Apple” on the front page of Apple’s site”
It’s not everything we asked [...]

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Tags: Design & Technology · Earth & Environment · Sustainable Development

It’s About Energy, Not Climate">It’s About Energy, Not Climate

May 1st, 2007 · No Comments

by George Reisman
The environmental movement has been doing its utmost to sabotage energy production since the 1960s, long before it was able to latch onto the prospect of global warming. Its opposition to atomic power has nothing to do with global warming, nor does its opposition to the construction [...]

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Tags: Earth & Environment · Globalization & Global Culture · Politics & International Relations · Sustainable Development