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As the first Internet stock bubble neared its popping point in 1999, IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner famously dismissed the dot-com start-ups of his day as “fireflies before the storm—all stirred up, throwing off ...
At a Geneva conference on Armed Violence and Development, ministers from 96 countries were told that some 1,500 people are killed every day, either as a result of armed conflict or as a result ...
Year after year, the U.S. State Department issues an annual report that criticizes the Cuban government for detaining some of its citizens in prison indefinitely, without charging them with crimes or bringing them to ...
Although the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been widely contested, incumbent President Joseph Kabila was sworn in on Tuesday after he claimed to have won the Nov. 28 election in ...
Liu Xiaobo currently resides in the Jinzhou Prison in the Liaoning Province of China, serving an 11-year prison term. His “crime”: drafting and promoting Charter ‘08, a manifesto that demands human rights and democratic reforms ...
If there is one striking characteristic of the period of late Hu-Wen rule (broadly, from the 17th Party Congress in 2007 when Hu was able to have most of his key allies in the Politburo ...
We are pleased to present the second edition of The Global Journal’s Top 100 NGOs ranking. In introducing the inaugural list, we began by asking: just what is a non-government organization? On this, our ...
As negotiations on a new Mercury Convention wrap up in Geneva, Richard Fuller presents the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP), a new collaborative body tasked with coordinating resources and activities to solve toxic ...
The French-led non-profit organization Tara Expeditions has been organizing missions aboard the research schooner Tara for the past nine years. Usually traversing the world’s oceans to learn more about the impact of climate change ...
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 ...
Cooperative enterprises, whether for food, health or banking were given some important support in late October when the UN General Assembly announced that 2012 will be the International Year of Cooperatives. The idea is to ...
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 ...
We are all agreed: living in Russia these days is not exactly a fairy tale. The country has large quantities of natural resources at its command, providing ample means for unprecedented economic development, but the ...
During his visit to China, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy said that the present shifts in the balance of power in global trade lean in favor of emerging economies have defined the need for a "new ...
November has been a dark month for those still optimistic about climate change adaptation and mitigation. The latest to sound the alarm is the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). In its Emission Gap Report 2012, released ...
The myth of female peacefulness has penetrated no field as greatly as foreign policy. Though there has been a scattering of female wartime leaders over the centuries, this myth has retained its primacy as women ...
The Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO) has sealed the deal for Russia’s acceptance as a full-fledged member of the 153-member trade body when it comes up for a vote at the WTO ministerial meeting ...
An HIV patient is being assisted by a care-giver at a clinic in Morogoro, Tanzania - a town with some 206,000 residents, and the capital of the like-named region. She is being taught how to ...
The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) warned (November 9) that long-term gas supplies will become increasingly unaffordable under oil-linked supply agreements. The IEA's World Energy Outlook 2011, jointly presented with the UN Economic Commission ...
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 ...
This week, French President François Hollande meets with three African presidents: Guinean Alpha Condé, Gabonese Ali Bongo and Senegal's Macky Sall. Hollande will use the occasion to set the tone for France’s ...
At least 24 civilians were killed by Syrian Army rockets (February 22), including Marie Colvin, (American Correspondent of Britain’s Sunday Times) and French freelance photographer, Rémi Ochlik. AFP reports that a shell crashed ...
The Asia-Pacific region replaced Europe in 2010 as the the world’s second biggest market after North America for high net worth individual (HNWI) populations, according to a report by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management ...
One of the last barriers to Moscow’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) was removed in Brussels (October 21) when an agreement was reached resolving an auto parts dispute between Russia and the ...
Two international trade organizations, the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade and Development) released a joint Report (October 26) praising the G20 nations for "continuing to honor their ...
A report by a respected German think tank ranks the United States 27th among the world’s 31 richest nations when it comes to social equality while a separate US report noted that the income ...
The regulatory atmosphere for local entrepreneurs trying to start a business was made easier around the world in 2010-2011 with the greatest improvement found in several African and Eastern European countries. The World Bank presented ...
Following the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on 28 November, the government has banned the use of SMS messaging and access to social media networks via mobile telephones. "The service works for ...
The message launched by the South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma at the beginning of the Durban Climate Change Conference “to act now, before it’s too late” seems have remained unheeded. One year after ...
The French government has set the target of providing enough offshore wind capacity to power millions of homes. A consortium led by Iberdrola, a leading Spanish energy company, has announced (January 12) the submission of ...
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