How to save the world
Harvard prodigy Jeffrey Sachs helped take capitalism to Russia. Now he’s tackling Africa and climate change, he tells Ed Pilkington, and ‘negativism’ is all that stands in his way. An interesting interview with a notable person, about his renewed view towards the world and his new publication Common Wealth. Read more at The Guardian… Related...
2008 United Nations Year of Languages
7000 world languages. 6 official UN languages. 127 official languages of UN member states The year 2008 has been declared by the UN as the International Year of Languages, in the hope t give more publicity and raise awareness about dying-out languages and universal communication. Exactly this diversity in languages can also form huge obstacles...
Earth Day
Read more at Earth Day Network… People who looked at this item also looked at… This is SCHOOL International Youth Day 2009 Green Economy Initiative The Climate for Change 350: 24 October is the day Related items International Youth Day 2009 HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist Using Human Rights Law to Address...
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Rebuild Your Future
New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council, The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou. See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl People who looked at this item also looked at… This is SCHOOL How on earth do we want to live together? Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability Virtual...
Connecting the dots
Complexity thinking and social development By Alan Fowler. How are societies ‘developed’? For years, international aid has failed to provide a convincing answer. This article offers a potential path to improving both aid performance and development in a broader sense. Read more at The Broker…. Related items HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist...
Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right....
Fifteen years of conflicts have cost Africa around $300bn
The cost of conflict on African development was approximately $300bn between 1990 and 2005, according to new research by Oxfam International, IANSA and Saferworld. This is equal to the amount of money received in international aid during the same period. The study “Africa’s Missing Billions†is the first time analysts have calculated the overall effects...
Donate Your Space
How do people make the Millennium Goals visible for themselves in a creative way? Donate Your Space is such an idea, where people can use ribbon or stickers to ‘donate a space’ for one of the Millennium Goals, be it fair world trade, or clean drinking water for everyone. Go and take a look –...
UN uses Google to pinpoint refugee crises
[David Batty] The United Nations is using the mapping programme Google Earth to highlight the plight of millions of refugees and its humanitarian work to help them. The outreach programme, a joint initiative between the internet giant and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), weaves together satellite maps, photos, videos and eyewitness accounts to give viewers...
UN Youth | The Netherlands
I’m happy to present to you a new website which I developed & designed together with the UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou. This new website, vnjongeren.nl, aims to build a community for Dutch youths interested in the work and themes of the United Nations. Visitors can make their own account and start publishing articles, reviews...
The forgotten refugees who wait for justice after 60 years
The continuous attention in the media for the latest news can sometimes cause painstaking forgotten issues. West Bengal’s Cooper Camp, a ‘forgotten’ refugee camp in India, is such a forgotten story. Coopers Camp is the sub-continent’s oldest and least-known refugee camp. A hangover from another era, it represents a major embarrassment for the progressive West...
10 Stories the World Should Know More About
From the hidden world of stateless people to the often overlooked advances in malaria protection to the steps taken to bring peace after separate conflicts in southern Sudan and Uganda, the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) has compiled its fourth annual list of stories it believes deserve greater public and media attention. “Ten...
