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HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist
‘If we can improve the images of the world, perhaps we can improve the world’ Wim Wenders Wim Wenders’ words have perhaps never been more relevant to a movie than in the case of Home. Following directly on from Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Home is, of course, a film with a message that sets...
Elkouria “Rabab” Amidane wins student peace prize
Today, students are playing crucial roles in opposition movements throughout the world, fighting for democracy and the implementation of human rights. Though they often are the first ones to climb the barricades, sadly they are also the first ones to be forgotten. The purpose of the Student Peace Prize is to make their voices heard,...
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Tackling Climate Change, Reducing Poverty
It a time of rising unemployment and economic insecurity, some argue that protecting the environment is a ‘luxury’; but a new report, Tackling Climate Change, Reducing Poverty shows that tackling climate change actually offers a huge opportunity to boost the economy and tackle UK poverty at the same time. For example, government investment in home...
Annan: Africa needs a green revolution
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...
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080808: Let the Games Beijng
The Biggest and probably most controversial games in history. It’s a big day for China today. With its opening ceremony of the Beijng Olympics, it hopes to definitely settle its desired image of superpower in a world of shifting power, scarce resources, diverging trends of democracy and varying definitions of human rights. While several world...
The true spirit of young people
- By Sandra van Beest, Youth Representative to the United Nations, 2007-2008. As youth representative of the Netherlands I have had the opportunity to represent Dutch young people at the United Nations. Through writing proposals for UN resolutions, negotiating to get the proposals in the UN Resolutions and through addressing the General Assembly, I hope...
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Land, Water And Conflict
As drylands get drier and violence grows, new crises resembling Darfur will arise. By Jeffrey Sachs | NEWSWEEK. July 7-14, 2008 issue. The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million people, with most of the increase in...
The Girl Effect
Beautiful! The Girl Effect. Thanks to Anothercompany. People who looked at this item also looked at… The world’s water future 2009 60 Years Horizon Related items Donate Your Space Quit Managing Your Time and Start Managing Your Attention HOME: It’s Too Late To Be A Pessimist Elkouria “Rabab” Amidane wins student peace prize Tackling Climate...
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World Refugee Day: Displacement in the 21st Century. A new paradigm
The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on the run as a growing number of push...
Measuring Genuine Progress
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was first used in the United Kingdom to measure their war-time production. Since the whole economy was geared up to wage war, it was a fair measure of how much the system was turning over. While the second world war has finished, GDP is peculiarly still the measurement system of choice...
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...
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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? Virtual Water Strategic Leadership towards...
