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 [...]

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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 [...]

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There’s nobody quite like you.
You’re one in seven billion.
So make your own flag.

We are multicolored
thanks to anotherblog.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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It’s by time we’re getting tired of all the days that are linked to certain causes: World Environment Day, World Earth Day, World Hunger Day (16th October), World Food Day (15th October), World Poverty Day (17th October), World Water Day, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, World Hospice and Palliative Day, World [...]

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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” - Winston Churchill, speaking of the turning point battle of El Alamein,1942
Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel Peace Prize symbolizes more than just a head-nod towards some eco-fad — [...]

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Youth representative
Hi my name is Wouter Thiebou and I’m a student from Wageningen University, Netherlands. I’m one of the 6 semi-finalists to become Youth Representative to the United Nations. As youth representative I lobby for the interest of important themes as education, basic health care, childrights, etc. My most important theme is clean drinking water. [...]

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Burma is ruled by one of the worst military dictatorships in the world. This week Buddhist monks and nuns began marching and chanting prayers to call for democracy. The protests spread and hundreds of thousands of Burmese people joined in — they’ve been brutally attacked by the military regime, but still the protests are spreading.
I [...]

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