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I did the right thing today and brought some electronic waste downtown to a Department of Sanitation drop-off site. I can't say that I'm impressed with New York City's program in this. The advertising was poor – you really had to search for it even at their website. Plus, there were far too few locations […]
On the 20th of November we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and what better way to celebrate and bring attention to children's rights then to publish a children's version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We Are All Born Free is a picture book celebrating […]
The extreme toll that the fighting in the Congo has taken on children is only beginning to emerge. In all conflict children are the hardest hit, but the severity of the situation in the Congo highlights the country's ability to handle the capacity of those affected. Children who have either been orphaned or lost in […]
"Osama" is the story of a 12 year-old girl living in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban. When the girl and her mother lose their jobs at the local hospital because of the Taliban crackdown on women's rights, she must cut her hair and pretend to be a boy so she can work. The […]
The convergence of business and the non profit sectors in recent years has sparked an interesting conversation around the use of business lingo and methods in the social sector. Regardless of your preferred term – venture philanthropy, philanthrocapitalism, social entrepreneurship – the involvement of business in the social sector has prompted good debate on 1) how to quantify the […]
Faustin Chongombe is a journalist from eastern Congo. He is currently studying for his doctorate at Swansea University in Wales where I made his acquaintance. I have asked him, with his permission, to publish an email he wrote about the crisis in Congo. Dear friends, -I have been receiving hundreds of mails and phone calls […]
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German Lutheran Pastor who participated in German Resistance movement against Nazism. The inheritance of our morality is truly that of a child's, it is not merely leaving children the ruins of war, for […]
President Bush will welcome world leaders to Washington this weekend to address the global financial crisis. He has already signaled his resistance to increased regulation of global finance in advance of the competing agendas the leaders will bring to the table. This AP report examines the diverse proposals world leaders bring to Washington and it […]
A two-day meeting at the UN, the "Culture of Peace," was the initiative of the King of Saudi Arabia. It was a large faith-based conference to promote inter-religious dialogue. The result has been a consensus resolution of the UN General Assembly. According to the UN News Centre, the meeting joined the leaders together to "decry […]
This week in which we marked Veterans Day (Remembrance Day for our allies) called to mind our more recent wars, but it's also worth noting the end of the war that gave rise to the holiday, the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. The war saw the end of great empires […]
There are always all sorts of meetings, conferences, conventions and other gatherings ongoing. Here are a few worthy of note. Governors' Global Climate Summit , The Governator, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, will host US governors and some top international policymakers on climate change and energy in LA next week. Governors taking part in this event […]
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