No country of white men
. Marie Mainil Director of the Student Peace Alliance at The Peace Alliance marie@thepeacealliance.org . Banner in the entrance of Obama 2012 HQ – Remember that scene in the movie Money Ball when cigar smoking, fairly aged white men made decisions out of smoke around the power table? That’s how elections used to be […]
ELSA – take your future in your own hands!
By Natalia Buczek Young Volunteer at ELSA nataliabuczek@wp.pl European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit-making organization run by and for students. ELSA was founded in 1981 in Vienna by representative from Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany. The organization was created to strengthen international relations and a better understanding in that time, which was difficult on political and legal […]
Towards a 21st Century Heavenly Paradise on Earth
Melcir Erskine-Richmond Founder-CEO-Visionary Catalyst – First the Earth LandSea International Eco-Holistic-Living City Models Network first-the-earth@hotmail.com Having worked first in the publishing sphere in Australia, and then for a UK shipping publisher, and having also written a lengthy Annual Report for United Nations FAO sub-group, the UK Freedom From Hunger Campaign, while in England, I […]
Excuse Me, Can You Repeat That?
Cathryn Cushner Edelstein Scholar-In-Residence at Emerson College Cathryn_Edelstein@emerson.edu The rules of communication are not universal – they are specific to particular cultures. International students who attend school in the U.S. often prepare for years by learning English. Often they have learned English from a non-native speaker who teaches with the use of a textbook, scripted dialogues […]
Carta de presentación de ACNUR. Por Francesca Fontanini.
Los últimos años han sido marcados por una sucesión interminable de conflictos y crisis humanitarias, en medio de incertidumbres, sociales, políticas y económicas. Una de las primeras consecuencias de tal escenario es el incremento de las personas forzadas a desplazarse y buscar protección en otros países. La combinación de estos factores ha reducido el “espacio […]
Space and I
I was born in 1952 in a small town near Tokyo. Many people have asked me if I had a dream to be an astronaut since my childhood. No, never. Ever since I could remember, I never had a dream to fly into space—actually, until I became 32 years old. It was in 1957 that the […]
Creating an Everyone a Changemaker World
We are living at an incredible moment in history, where all of the existing sectors of society are redefining themselves. It started with the private sector. Businesses let loose the radical idea: if you have a new idea and you make it work, we’ll make you rich and respected. Then we will copy you. This revolutionary […]
2013: International Year of Water Cooperation
The side event, organized in the framework of the “UN-Water Day” at Rio+20, aims at raising awareness about the UN IYWC and the opportunities that this year-long event will bring along for Member States and other stakeholders. In December 2010 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared the year 2013 as the United Nations International […]
2013: Año Internacional de la Quinua (AIQ)
En la resolución (A/RES/66/221) la Asamblea General designó el 2013 «Año Internacional de la Quinua», en reconocimiento a los pueblos andinos que han mantenido, controlado, protegido y preservado la quinua como alimento para generaciones presentes y futuras gracias a sus conocimientos tradicionales y prácticas de vida en armonía con la madre tierra y la naturaleza. […]
El valor de la Educación Global como motor de cambio para erradicar la pobreza y alcanzar un Desarrollo Sostenible
El Sr. Sha Zukang, Secretario-General de Rio+20, felicitando a Javier Collado El Presidente de la ONGD Educar para Vivir (España), Javier Collado, fue invitado por las Naciones Unidas para participar en las Conferencias Internacionales sobre Desarrollo Sostenible, denominadas Rio+20, tras haber presentado la propuesta de reforma educativa a nivel mundial: “El valor de la Educación Global como motor […]
