Gender Equality Produces a ‘Double Dividend’ that Benefits Both Women and Children, UNICEF Reports
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 11 December 2006 – Eliminating gender discrimination and empowering women will have a profound and positive impact on the survival and well-being of children, according to a new UNICEF report issued on UNICEF’s 60th anniversary.Gender equality produces the [...]
Entries from October 2007
The ‘Double Dividend’ of Gender Equality
October 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Actuality · Developing Countries · Sustainable Development · World
Clean and safe drinking water as a universal right
October 31st, 2007 · No Comments
During his visit to India, prince Willem Alexander recently delivered a speech during Seminar ‘Water and Microfinance’ in New Delhi.
At the same time, our new Dutch Youth Representative to the United Nations, Wouter Thiebou, is getting clean and safe drinking water on the international policies agenda, while it seems at the same time a more [...]
Tags: Asia · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Youth
we are multicolored
October 26th, 2007 · No Comments
There’s nobody quite like you.
You’re one in seven billion.
So make your own flag.
We are multicolored
thanks to anotherblog.
Tags: Fun · Globalization & Global Culture · World
Wouter Thiebou, our new Youth Delegate to the UN!
October 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Wednesday 24th October, during a lively night with a lot of known faces (among them Ruud Lubbers, Jan Pronk, Joris Luyendijk, Paul Rosenmöller, Kader Abdolah, Johann Olav Koss, Jornah Kiplagat and Bert Koenders), the new UN Youth Delegate for the Netherlands is voted Wouter Thiebou, a study mate of mine. (International Development Studies, Wageningen University).
Having [...]
Tags: Actuality · Articles by Christopher Baan · Globalization & Global Culture · Politics & International Relations · World · Youth
Sand, Stones, Sun and an endless footmarch…
October 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Following in the conceptual footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, 25,000 of the world’s most marginalized poor march together along the Indian National Highway. These landless poor farmers have gathered in a mass show of non violent strength to bring the attention of the Indian Government to their pitiable plight. They have chosen to endure the loss [...]
Tags: Actuality · Asia · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Sustainable Development
