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For the third year in a row, the three UN development agencies based in Rome - The FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization), WFP (World Food Program) and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) joined forces to publish ...
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) is to hold an event today (February 27) on the current and future status of youth employment, “Breaking new ground: Partnerships for more and ...
Socrates believed that the first step towards gaining true knowledge was eliminating misinformation and realizing how much you don’t know, a state he called ‘Aporia’. The Chinese have a similar saying which suggests that ...
With the world economy still struggling to recover, young people continue to face unprecedented levels of unemployment. The United Nations has responded by producing several events and studies, including May’s Youth Employment Forum at ...
We want to open an NGO In the past five-six years, many people, friends, and students showed interest and contacted me to take my advice about opening a Non Government Organisation (NGO). Most of these ...
At a time when most nations are trying to figure out how to stop Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from killing his own people in a year-long struggle to stay in power, the Venezuelan government is ...
This paper is based on a speech given at a conference with the University of Geneva and the Latsis Foundation in December 2011. It has been edited by Professor Fukuyama for The Global Journal. I ...
Police misconduct and violence continues throughout the world, often without any oversight, accountability or justice for the victims. Recent deaths of civilians by police officers in New York, violent repression of “Occupy” protestors, and rampant ...
“You are asking what would we do to the terrorists if we find them? We will destroy them.” These were the words of French President, Francois Hollande, a few days after having launched Operation Serval ...
The film “The Whistleblower,” has brought back into focus the horrors that were inflicted on many, many women in Bosnia as a consequence of the conflict, this time, not the rape of women in war ...
When considering Timothy Geithner’s, US Secretary of Treasury, obsession to cast Europe as the most serious obstacle to the global economic recovery it seems that he has a secret dream: to become EU’s ...
“Artificial light in the environment must be considered a chronic impairment of habitat...While lamp efficiency and consideration of SPD (spectral power distribution) are significant accomplishments, true night sky friendly lighting can still only be ...
Tourism in south Asia generated approximately USD 103.8bn or 4.8% of the region’s total GDP in 2011. While this may seem significant, the relative contribution of the tourism industry to its national ...
When you think of Africa what comes to mind? Go ahead give it a go, and honestly say the first things that popped into your head. Your answers will probably cluster around the same topics ...
Never has the world witnessed a large market emerge so quickly as China. As the economy grows, it is also changing. China is fast climbing the value curve, transitioning from low-cost manufacturing to innovation-led growth ...
"This obsession with a legally binding treaty [to tackle climate change] is an obstacle for countries achieving targets they have committed to," declared Paul Bledsoe, a climate change advisor to President Clinton. "What we need ...
Syria is a sharp reminder of precisely why we need a strong Arms Trade Treaty. The distressing scenes of ferocious and unrelenting military assaults on Syrian cities, are a sharp reminder that the world needs ...
As the world focuses its attention on the horrors of Kim Jong Il's rule, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) uploads three important talks given at the Oslo Freedom Forum to take you behind the ...
Cyprus, cognisant of its size and experience as a member state, wants its presidency of the European Union to be one that facilitates and navigates through the Union’s agenda without fanfare or grand statements ...
At WCIT-12 in Dubai in December, the 193 member states of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) met to review a treaty that has formed the global framework for telecommunications regulation for almost 25 years. A ...
The idea of Greece selling some islands to alleviate its debt problem was quickly dismissed when it was proposed last year, before any serious analysis or public debate could occur. Yet on reflection, the idea ...
Turkey's threat to cut electricity exports to Syria, part of an effort to pressure the Syrian government to halt its deadly attacks on protestors, illuminates a hidden dynamic of international relations: how aspects of ...
What is the new game in town? Out of competing theories and views, there tends to emerge a certain winner, a dominant argument that shapes the entire new paradigm. In a world of diversity and ...
No country in the world can ever be considered completely at peace. Though the soldiers may not be dressed as such and there may not be guns and tanks and bombs, the war is still ...
By André Schneider (André Schneider Global Advisory) and Mathis Wackernagel (Global Footprint Network) Introduction Today’s world is becoming increasingly interconnected and globalization is permeating all aspects of our lives. A successful company has to ...
When people in Scotland or Flanders or Catalonia talk of independence, they have an invisible but powerful ally: globalization. Nations no longer need as much territory to be viable as they did in the period ...
The tale of two worlds – the fabulously rich and the increasingly poor – is a defining narrative of contemporary life, and it continues to throw up vivid reminders, at once doleful and grimly hilarious. One of ...
The proliferation of sexual violence and female oppression in India is truly disturbing. The Times of India recently reported that 95% of women in Delhi and the surrounding areas feel unsafe outdoors. While the recent ...
Eric Darier is a senior campaigner on Ecological Agriculture for Greenpeace International. Let’s not mince our words: chemical intensive industrial agriculture is a failure. No doubt, future generations will wonder why we were so ...
OSLO—The Nobel Peace Prize is a legacy of Swedish businessman and inventor Alfred Nobel, the nobility of its aim, to reward those who strive for peace, is seldom questioned, given that the answer seems ...
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