The new publication “Growing Together: Youth and the Work of the United Nations” was launched on International Youth Day. The UN Programme on Youth coordinated this inter-agency effort which shows how the United Nations system as a whole, supports youth development through a diverse range of programmes and activities. The publication demonstrates that the work [...]
Entries from September 2008
Growing Together
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Politics & International Relations · World · Youth
Lower castes get a leg up in the new India
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
By Somini Sengupta
AZAMGARH DISTRICT, India: When Chandra Bhan Prasad visits his ancestral village in these feudal badlands of northern India, he dispenses the following advice to his fellow untouchables: Get rid of your cattle, because the care of animals demands children’s labor. Invest in your children’s education instead of jewelry or land. Cities are good [...]
Green is the New Black
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Green is the new black. No buzz-phrase better sums up both the excitement many of us feel about the blooming environmental and social consciousness around us and the essential hollowness of the answers being promoted by many newly-minted eco-pundits.
The flood of environmental magazine cover stories, documentaries and advertisements has pushed us over a public-opinion threshold, [...]
Tags: Climate & Energy · Earth & Environment · Sustainable Development · World
Happiness
September 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Are you in a happy mood? Take a look at this World Database of Happiness, a great scientific & inspirational directory for everything from a selection on valid measurement to a state happiness ranking.
Heard about Bhutan’s policy to measure ‘Gross National Happiness‘ instead of the traditional economic measure of GDP?
Or watch Goldfrapp’s ‘Happiness’, something you [...]
Tags: Art & Culture · Fun · Music · Society · War & Terrorism · World
Annan: Africa needs a green revolution
September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands: Bringing a green revolution to Africa and feeding the continent’s 200 million hungry people is one of the greatest development challenges of this century, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday.
Annan said a 50 percent jump in staple food prices in the last year has deepened the crisis for the average African farmer [...]
Tags: Actuality · Developing Countries · Earth & Environment · Sustainable Development
