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1/12/2009 World HIV/AIDS Day

Today is 1. December. The World HIV/AIDS day by the UN. The day when it needed/must to remember to those who died in AIDS caused illnesses. But for me beside the memories of a lost love, it's the day to look around...

Unilever Discriminates Against Trade Unionists

Unilever respects employees� rights to join, form, or not join, a trade union without fear of reprisal, intimidation or harassment. "A Summary of Stakeholder Concerns and Our Response" at www.unilever.com At Unilever Pakistan, it is more than just the Company...

International sexual terrorism - your ambassadors abroad

When people travel from their home land they become ambassadors to the nation they belong to. However it would seem that countries that have citizens worried about sex predators. Within a neighborhood or play...

American spening, materialism and the world in images.

http://www.zimbio.com/American+economy/articles/75/Materialism+American+gluttony+rest+World

How to help eradicate poverty - holiday of a life time

Over the many years that I have resided in the third world, my thoughts have been related to how I can help eradicate the poverty that surrounds me. My answer to that problem is that by retiring here my meager...

UN says wealthy failing the poor

Unsurprisingly, an UN report finds little progress towards millenium development goals. Very little improvement has been achieved to erradicate poverty by 2015. Trade and aid are still major barriers. "The report...

Madonna's 50th Birthday Present is an Adopted Child

"Madonna and her husband will adopt another child, a 3-year-old Malawian girl named Mercy James, whom Madonna met one year ago at an orphanage in Malawi, according to a report.As a gift for Madonna's 50th birthday...

Don't forget the poverty! I can not... opinion

I live amongst the poverty of a third world nation, I see the suffering and hunger where as here in the Philippines, the very poor can place food on their tables, but it’s a hard slog for parents with 7...

Opinion:- Poverty! what the hell do you know about it?

A Babel Fish OpinionPoverty is talked about in the news media, forums and social communities, its causes are many fold, drought, war, over population, a lack of education, corruption and unemployment being the...

So What's The Progress On Global Companies' Adoption Of Environmental Strateg...

A new report by the international consultancy McKinsey reveals ecological strategies from companies around the globe are beginning to be integrated with prioritized strategies. The study, published in the McKinsey Quarterly, points out that the majority of businesses...

Bangladeshi-Begums

One of Bangladesh's two “battling begums” went on trial for extortion recently, as part of the emergency Government's plan to break their-stranglehold on politics. "Sheikh Hasina Wajed, a former Prime Minister, has been in detention since July, accused with her sister and...

`$100 Laptop' Project

BOSTON - The nonprofit that aims to seed the developing world with inexpensive laptop computers for schoolchildren has made peace with Intel Corp., the project's biggest and most powerful rival, The Associated Press has learned. The One Laptop Per Child program and Intel...

A letter to Geldof: Documentary challenges the role of celebrities in Africa

Bob Geldof visited Ghana for the TV series Geldof in Africa and wrote about it in the accompanying book, describing his crowning as the Chief of Development in a town called Ajumako-Bisease. This documentary...

Damned by Debt Relief

After the Live8-G8 bonanza many assumed debt cancellation for indebted poor countries was great news. Was it? Have we been hood-winked? Shot in Ghana this short doc aims to set the record straight. Debt relief was...

South African Wiki Project - Making Science Textbooks Affordable To Poor Coun...

"Do you want to participate in an online effort to create free science textbooks for countries that can't afford them?  The Physics Department of the University of Cape Town, South Africa is currently supporting this effort and is looking for authors who can dedicate some of...

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