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Does anyone still believe or wish for a peaceful settlement for Syria? If so today is a good moment to wonder whom this might be. In 16 months, 20,000 people have died in civil ...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Sergei Magnitsky, and now, Pussy Riot. While these highly publicized cases are mostly known for their political nature, they also hint at deeper problems within the Russian justice system. Unwarranted arrests, unjust trials ...
An interview with George Papandreou, former Prime Minister of Greece, about debt, the challenge of structural reform, and governance in a time of crisis. At what point did you realize that your European counterparts, beyond ...
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Michael L. Ross, Princeton University Press, $ 29.95. With the current high oil prices, The Oil Curse provides an interesting approach to the cause ...
Water, David L. Feldman, Polity $39.95. Water is required by every living thing, yet a growing number of people face difficulties accessing it. Climate change, urbanization, pollution, energy use, agriculture, population growth, and migration ...
Franck Mweze is one of the founding members of the broadcasting organization, 3Tamis. A philosophy graduate turned documentarian, he lives in Bukavu, capital of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In ...
It began with a question: which innovative projects and ideas could have the greatest global impact five years from now? On 9 October in Geneva, The Global Journal brought together a distinguished Jury, 19 project ...
Established in December 1997, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. ARIN is one of five (5) RIRs. Like the other RIRs ...
Interview by Laura Bullon-Cassis, photography by Patrick Jackson for The Global Journal We are living, we are told, through an ideological crisis, gridlock, or vacuum. If these words have become increasingly popular since 2008 and ...
Check out if Heifer International is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Sustaining development through livestock. Working in 129 countries. Shaken by his experiences doling out rations to children during the Spanish Civil War ...
Check out if Human Rights Watch is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Advocating forcefully to defend human rights. Over 280 staff members globally. In a year when regimes notorious for their repression and ...
Check out if Aravind Eye Care System is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Eradicating preventable blindness. 300,000 surgeries performed annually. Despite the vast need for eye surgery to prevent blindness, national health ...
Check out if Action Contre la Faim is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Combating hunger worldwide. Active presence in 40 countries. Arriving on a ‘second wave’ of NGOs committed to reversing the traditional ...
Check out if Apopo is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Training rats to detect landmines. 2 million square meters cleared in Mozambique. To most people, rats are considered vermin. But to Belgian engineer ...
Check out if Cure Violence (formerly CeaseFire) is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Violence prevention as disease control. 67 percent reduction in shootings in 1 year. In 2000, Chicago’s West Garfield Park ...
Check out if Acumen Fund is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Making transformative social investments. 86 million lives impacted worldwide. Jacqueline Novogratz, the founder of the New York-based Acumen Fund, defines ‘patient capital ...
Check out if Root Capital is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Providing credit to the ‘missing middle’. 450,000 rural households benefited. While travelling in Mexico in the mid-1990s, William Foote encountered a ...
Check out if Saude Crainça is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Addressing the root causes of childhood illness. Replicated in 6 Brazilian states. Working as a paediatrician at a large public hospital ...
Check out if Population and Community Development Association is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Social marketing to address sexual health. 37 years of sustained impact. In 1974, economist Mechai Viravaidya launched an initiative ...
Check out if Fundacion Escuela Nueva is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Transforming the conventional school system. Replicated in 16 countries worldwide. Having studied sociology and education in Latin America and the United ...
Check out if Harlem Children's Zone is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. Integrated services to 100 blocks. Harlem Children’s Zone began life in 1970 as ...
Check out if Forum for African Women Educationalists is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Achieving gender equity and equality in education. Present in 33 countries. Despite considerable progress towards universal primary education in ...
Check out if Aflatoun is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Empowering children through financial education. 1.1 million young savers. Jeroo Billimoria believes that international development starts with fostering children’s social and ...
Check out if International Medical Corps is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Building health capacity in war-torn societies. Active in 30 countries. Local ‘capacity-building’ has today become a mantra in the field of ...
Check out if Rare is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Using social marketing to protect biodiversity. 73 campaigns in 2010 alone. Rare’s approach to conservation has its roots in Saint Lucia, where ...
Check out if Ashoka is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Fostering social entrepreneurship. Nearly 3000 fellows worldwide. On a break from Harvard at age 20, Bill Drayton witnessed Vinoba Bhave walk across India ...
Check out if Anti-Slavery International is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Fighting against modern slavery in all its forms. 170 years of enduring impact. Despite the lauded achievements of the abolitionist movement two ...
Check out if Movember Foundation is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Changing ‘the face’ of men’s health. Approaching 2 million participants globally. Attention to men’s health issues has increasingly emerged as ...
Check out if KickStart is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Changing the way the world fights poverty. 186,000 MoneyMaker Pumps sold. Eighty percent of the poor in Africa are small-scale farmers, dependent ...
Check out if Rainforest Alliance is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Making conservation profitable. Over 63 million hectares of forests certified. In 1986, Rainforest Alliance was founded collectively by a ‘hodgepodge’ group of ...
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