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There is a place where over the last 11 years human rights are systematically being violated on a daily basis. Locked up in dark detention cells, without ever seeing their family or other visitors save ...
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 ...
The Global Journal is proud to announce the release of the second edition of its annual Top 100 NGOs special issue. The only international ranking of its kind, this exclusive feature reflects the increasing global ...
Shortly before the COP17 climate change talks open in Durban (Nov 28- Dec. 9), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued an urgent appeal nations to commit to a Green Climate Fund to prevent a collapse of ...
With the dust beginning to settle on the death of Meles Zenawi (21 July) —ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national ...
In an interview with The Global Journal at the Economist Conferences NCD Summit held in Geneva on 29 October 2012, Ama de-Graft Aikins discusses NCDs in emerging markets and the need for coordinated action. Ama ...
The Montreal Protocol demonstrated that nations can come together to successfully design and implement effective environmental legislation. The general public did not originally accept the idea of a hole in the ozone layer – yet over ...
The bleak choice was offered in an interview with a leading German newspaper by former Foreign Affairs Minister and Vice Chancellor, Joschka Fischer, who told the leading German newspaper Die Zeit that the EU has ...
Four Ukrainian women have brought their unique way of protesting to Europe, baring their breasts to call attention to the plight of women who face prostitution, sex trafficking and sexual harassment, problems not unique to ...
The week before the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change talks open in Durban, South Africa, UN Secretary Ban ki-Moon told the Security Council (November 23) that climate change should be treated as a threat ...
The UN Special Representative (SRSG) for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy, witnessed the engagement (November 28) of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) to enter a process of ending the use of child ...
In a well-established tradition, dispersed people all over the world send money back to their country of origin. Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis, such remittance flows to all six developing regions have ...
“The world stands on the brink of a double-dip recession and a ‘lost decade’ for many countries,” according to a year-end policy brief by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). The report noted ...
“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 ...
It is a good day for intolerant rulers like Hugo Chavez and Nursultan Nazarbayev, as seven countries with particularly appalling human rights records were elected to the UN Human Rights Council: Ethiopia, Gabon, Côte ...
The education sector in Bahrain continues to pay a heavy price for its involvement in the popular protests which consumed the country for several weeks in February and March of this year. In the spotlight ...
FEMEN, the Ukrainian feminist group, has once again struck the chord of public dissent, but this time in the neighboring Republic of Belarus. Three of its members, Inna Shevchenko, Oksana Sasko and Alexandra Nemchinova, arrived ...
French energy company Total detected (30 March) the source of gas leaking from a platform in the North Sea, which has caused fears of subsequent explosions and impacted significantly upon the organization’s market value ...
“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 ...
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, addresses an audience at Bilkent Univeristy Ankara upon receiving a Doctorat Honoris Causa, 15 March 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, Being with you in "bilim kenti," the city ...
The late 1990’s witnessed the growth of Internet-based companies. Start-up companies became the next big thing for venture capitalists to invest in. Silicon Valley was the hub for technological innovation and the home of ...
Four entrepreneurs were honored at the World Entrepreneurship Forum, held this year in Singapore (November 2-5), for creating role models for the world with their achievements and commitment to the societies they work in. Singapore ...
Interview with Sherif H. Kamel, dean of the Business School at the American University in Cairo by our correspondent Gael Favari. What is your view of the current situation in Egypt? Firstly, I look at ...
Last Thursday (28 June), I was on the schedule to deliver testimony at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. I was invited to be part of UN Watch's campaign to stop Hugo ...
Tell me a little bit about your project: OVDinfo.org. What do you hope to achieve? And what role does the Internet play? Our project came into existence after the first major protest against mass ...
Mali’s secessionist North, which split from the rest of the country in March, continues to be a key concern for many West African leaders involved in identifying a solution to the crisis. They met ...
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 ...
Government and technology leaders from around the world have endorsed an ambitious project to make permanent Internet connection universal and affordable for every household in the world within 4 years. “I am absolutely convinced that ...
In a stinging rebuke of Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Arab League voted (November 12) to suspend Syria if his regime fails to take immediate steps to honor a league-brokered plan it has thus far ...
Widespread degradation of land and water resources poses a profound challenge to the task of feeding a world population expected to reach 9 billion people by 2050. The report issued by FAO (November 28), the ...
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