Gender
- Fri Feb 22 2008
UN budgeting bypasses women
When the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) holds a two-week session beginning 25 February 2008, one of the lingering issues high on the agenda will be the continued under-funding of women’s activities at the United Nations.
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People
/Society
- Tue Jan 22 2008
Controversial proposals expected at WEF gathering
The seemingly incongruous presence of Bono, a pop singer rarely spotted without his wraparound sunglasses amid the sombre suits of business and political leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF), should ensure that the question of how to end African poverty features prominently in media coverage of the January 23-27 event.
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World Peace and Security
- Fri Jan 18 2008
Kenya: Let us not find revolutionaries where there are none
A whole nation, where ethnic cleansing has already started, is at stake. International solidarity should be with the Kenyan people and not with individual leaders.
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Environment
/Globalization
/People
/Society
- Wed Jan 09 2008
Atlas of radical cartography
It is an important contribution to a growing cultural movement that traverses the boundaries between art, cartography, geography and activism.
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Globalization
/People
/Society
- Wed Jan 09 2008
World Social Forum 2008
The Global Call for Action is asking social movements and civil society worldwide to mobilize together in the week culminating on January 26, 2008.
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People
- Fri Jan 04 2008
United Nations World Youth Report 2007
The World Youth Report 2007 examines the challenges and opportunities existing for the roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world.
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Human Rights
/Migration
- Wed Dec 19 2007
UN calls for protection of migrants' human rights
United Nations officials called on all countries to protect the human rights of the world’s 200 million migrants, regardless of their legal status, stressing that they provide vital services to the States where they live, yet often face abuse, discrimination and even violence in return.
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Disabilities
- Tue Dec 04 2007
The right to decent work of persons with disabilities
Despite significant progress in recent years in improving their livelihoods, new efforts are needed to break down barriers that still prevent millions of people with disabilities from working and contributing to the economic growth of their societies, according to a new ILO report released for the International Day of Disabled Persons on 3 December.
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Human Rights
/Migration
/Gender
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Fri Nov 23 2007
Farah Karimi is Oxfam Novib’s new director
As general director Karimi will become Oxfam Novib’s new face in the Netherlands. She will represent the organisation internationally, in Oxfam International as well as with partner organisations in the South.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Thu Nov 22 2007
Tribals distressed by ban on forest gathering
The magical trill of the Nilgiri Whistling Thrush deep in the jungles of this remote southern Indian wildlife sanctuary is no comfort to its nearly 2,000 Soliga aboriginal tribal families.
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