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Solar Mamas and Barefoot professionals. HQ Location: India In the recent documentary Solar Mamas, a 32-year-old, tent-dwelling Jordanian mother with only five years of primary education travels to India for six months of hands-on training ...
Lifesaving assistance to refugees. HQ Location: United States Founded in 1933 at the request of none other than Albert Einstein, the New York-based International Rescue Committee offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced ...
Protecting the dignity and rights of the disabled. HQ Location: France Imagine living through the devastation and debilitating burden of conflict or natural disaster. Now imagine the same scenario through the eyes of a person ...
Investing in the ‘missing middle’. HQ Location: United States While the global ‘credit crunch’ has shifted the playing field in recent years, there was a time when it seemed the world was awash in easy ...
The bridge between relief and recovery. HQ Location: United States. Sometimes you see too much in this business, resulting in horror fatigue,” says Mercy Corps co-founder Dan O’Neill. “But you use the nightmare for ...
Treating the contagion of violence. HQ Location: United States While the tragic school shooting in Connecticut in December added further fuel to the gun control debate in the United States and beyond, it has also ...
Fiercely independent emergency care. HQ Location: Switzerland Launchpad for the now inescapable ‘without borders’ movement, Médecins Sans Frontières has developed, over the course of its 41-year history, an enviable – or infamous, depending on ...
Leading the fight against global poverty. HQ: Switzerland In the world of emergency relief and international development, there are a handful of organizations that have transcended their inter-war or post-war roots and built a global ...
Shaping the future of sustainable capitalism. HQ location: United States. Judging by the direction of contemporary debate, it can appear at times that the environment and sustainability have fallen off the edge of the map ...
Medicine through a moral lens. HQ Location: United States. Often linked in the public mind with the critical voice of high-profile co-founder Paul Farmer, Partners In Health has, since its beginnings as a community-based health ...
Setting the standard in complex emergencies. HQ Location: Denmark Formed after the devastation of World War II and the European refugee crises triggered by the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council ...
The Altruistic face of venture capitalism. HQ Location: United States. In 2011, New York-based Acumen Fund celebrated a decade long experiment in 21st century charitable giving. Conceived with seed capital from the Rockefeller Foundation, Cisco ...
Crowd-sourcing knowledge worldwide. HQ Location: United States. In 11 short years, Wikimedia Foundation’s flagship initiative – ubiquitous online encyclopaedia Wikipedia – has revolutionized the way knowledge is collected and shared. By now, most are familiar with ...
The Agile Giant of the Development World HQ Location: Bangladesh After landing at a more than respectable fourth place in our inaugural Top 100 NGOs ranking, BRAC (formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) – the largest ...
On 12 January 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti. In a country already struggling with huge developmental challenges, the disaster killed more than 300,000 people and left ...
On Borders, Ostkreuz Agency Photographers, Hatje Cantz, Ð38.00. They offer protection, lead to war, limit freedom or enable it; they have always been there and will continue to exist: borders. Hardly anything else is ...
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, Urban-Think Tank, Lars Muller Publishers, £ 45.00. The third tallest building in Venezuela stands proudly in the heart of Caracas’ former central business district, Libertador. Originally conceived as a landmark ...
Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, Matthew Carr, Hurst & Co, £20.00. “On 28 May 1999, a Sudanese asylum seeker named Aamir Ageed died during a deportation flight from Frankfurt to Cairo, after police ...
Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad, David W Lesch, Yale University Press, $28.00. David W Lesch, a historian specializing in the Middle East, is among the handful of Westerners to have gained ...
Doing Psychoanalysis in Teheran, Gohar Homayounpour, The MIT Press, $19.95. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran is not about human rights violations, democracy or freedom of speech. Gohar Homayounpour challenges Western preconceptions of a stigmatized society ...
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Karen E Field & Barbara J Fields, Verso Books, £20.00. Tackling the Obama-era idea of the post-racial society head on, sociologist Karen E Fields and historian Barbara ...
Disasters Without Borders, John Hannigan, Polity Press, £13.95. As international attention on natural disasters increases, John Hannigan examines the latest trend in international politics to resolve“borderless” issues. Conceived as a textbook reviewing contemporary ...
Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medecin, Tom Koch, The MIT Press, £20.95. Born in the 1960s, bioethics was to bring “a specific kind of analytic, moral philosophy to questions of medical care and ...
Fit: An Architect's Manifesto, Robert Geddes Princeton University Press $19.95. Early in Fit, Robert Geddes – dean emeritus at the Princeton School of Architecture and distinguished urbanist– notes that “what we build is a ...
Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age, Dhiraj Murthy, Polity Press, £50.00. What impact can 140-character messages have in our everyday lives and on influential social movements? These are the questions Dhiraj Murthy, a ...
The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and Pursuit of Social Justice, Peter Corning, University of Chicago Press, $17.00. At the outset of The Fair Society, Peter Corning, Director of the Institute for ...
A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East To America, Leila Ahmed, Yale University Press, $30.00. The hijab is back – on an increasing number of women’s heads, and as a ...
Since 2004, former French model Isabelle Quéhé has been working to showcase the talents of ethical fashion designers and labels worldwide. President of the Universal Love Association and founder of the Ethical Fashion Show ...
Aleksandr Lukashenko is resilient. The President of Belarus has stood firm against the European Union (EU) and its renewed political and economic sanctions in response to his increasingly autocratic rule. In six months, he has ...
Science has long proven that the probability of winning at betting games is usually infinitesimal. People still play. The same applies to environmental science, which has demonstrated that our current ways of life are not ...
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