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Could we see, beginning in Dubai in December, the end of the Internet as we know it? The 193 member states making up the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) are scheduled to meet next month to ...
Renowned Syrian dissident lawyer and judge, 80-year old Haitham Maleh, believes the continuing brutality of President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, which has led to a death toll of over 5,000, is a sign that ...
Driven by the potential for urban design to empower and integrate communities, Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner aim to bring ‘game changing’ modern architecture to the dynamic informal cities of the developing world. Urban-Think Tank ...
The upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai looms as a moment of truth for the Internet’s governing rules and economic model. In all, representatives of 193 countries will come together to ...
As Jürgen Habermas’ new book "The Crisis of the European Union: A Response" arrived at bookstores, The Global Journal asked Francis Fukuyama to interview the German philosopher, one of the most influential thinkers of ...
MANTRA, a sanitation program transforming rural livelihoods in eastern India, last night won the Grand Award at GLOBAL+5, the first ever festival of global governance organized by The Global Journal in Geneva. Receiving the ...
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 ...
To see clearly is a difficult task. At night, or when there is too much light, when tired, or when too many people are around, where the rush of events is clouding our ability to ...
Check out if Partners in Health is in the Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Taking a holistic approach to fighting infectious disease. 2.8 million patient visits in Haiti in 2011. Over the last 25 ...
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 ...
EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso grows very animated when discussing Brazil, a place he is close to for familial reasons but also for the great admiration he has for the way it has managed ...
Officials from Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro signed a joint declaration in Belgrade, Serbia (November 8), to close down refugee centers and provide housing for some 74,000 people displaced by the Balkan wars of ...
Just what is a non-government organization? While an obvious first question to ask when compiling a list of the type that fills the following pages, the search for an answer is less straightforward than one ...
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 ...
Putting all your eggs is one basket has never proved to be an effective investment strategy. The Republic of Kazakhstan, a post-Soviet Central Asian state with a population of 16.6 million, has come a ...
It was with such an idea that Jeremy Gilley, an actor and movie producer turned militant, obtained World Peace Day, to be celebrated each 21st of September by the United Nations. In 2001, the UN ...
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 ...
The World Conference on International Communications (WCIT-12) begins in Dubai on 3 December. Convened by the ITU, the UN agency in charge of telecommunications, WCIT-12 looms as a turning point for the Internet’s governing ...
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 ...
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, an online, free-content encyclopaedia that has grown into the fifth most visited website globally. Wales established the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 to support Wikipedia ...
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 ...
What is the definition of an honest leader? To be able to anticipate both the worst and the best would seem a cardinal virtue. The smallest time bomb planted in the heart of an information ...
Journalists asked Sami Layouni, a Tunisian male citizen, why he participated in a street protest in Tunis on Monday 13 August. “We are here to support women and to say that women must support women ...
The Global Journal announces GLOBAL+5, a unique opportunity to identify innovative and promising projects addressing the most pressing global challenges for the next five years. The event will take place on 10-11 October 2012 ...
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 ...
Check out if Wikimedia Foundation is in the Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Revolutionizing the way knowledge is shared. 20 million articles written in 282 languages. “Imagine a world in which every single human being ...
Leah McGrath Goodman, author of The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market, talks to the Global Journal about the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the floating trading ...
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