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Taking The Fight To The DRC Rebels: The Potential Pitfalls Of A UN Intervention Brigade

THINK AFRICA PRESS
April 29th, 2013

The UN has approved the creation of a special task force responsible for targeting rebel groups in the DRC, but structural, political, and historical issues may prevent such an intervention from being successful.

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From The Ashes: Learning To Read Gave This Ethiopian School Boy Opportunity To Give Back

HUFF POST GOOD NEWS
December 5th, 2012

Despite being born in a rural Ethiopian village with little access to books, Asratie Teferra successfully used his passion for learning to fuel his dreams of one day working for the United Nations. Today, he gives back to his home community and shows the power of education and determination.

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Culture of Peace Should Replace Culture of Violence

ISPNews
September 10th, 2012

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2012 (IPS) – When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the High-Level Forum on Culture of Peace later this week, he will transmit a message that underlines his political philosophy: all disputes need to be resolved by peaceful means, not through military might

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Water and Sustainable Land Use in the Wakhan Valley

Our World 2.0 Video
August 22nd, 2012

Working with farmers in this way is intended to bring about bottom-up change in pilot communities that can then be replicated in other villages, explains Nevelina Pachova of the Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services.

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Crossing The Great Divide Of Otherness

OdeWire Yobo Member
July 17th, 2012

“My work is about discovering the ecology of our inner self that gives us a sense of sufficiency so that we may become stewards of the earth. We don’t just live in the universe; the universe lives in us.”

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Women’s Rights In CSW57: No More Trade-Offs Or Compromises

THINKAFRICAPRESS
March 8th, 2013

In light of International Women’s Day, it is important to acknowledge all of the progress made in women’s rights so far, but it is also vital to note the steps that must still be taken to ensure these rights for women across the globe who still suffer from various forms of gender based violence.

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Qatar Summit Drives Primary Education

OdeWire Yobo Member
November 20th, 2012

At an education summit in the country’s capital, Doha, it launched an initiative to inject momentum into the faltering international efforts to provide an education for all children.

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Iran NAM Summit Sends Message of Peace

Tehran Times
August 25th, 2012

Never before, it seems, have the words of Fidel Castro resonated with such urgency, when the Cuban leader declared at a previous summit in 1979 that the international movement stood for “national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries” in their “struggle against imperialism and all forms of foreign aggression”.

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Makes First Parliament Speech

The Kansas City Star
July 25th, 2012

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and democracy crusader won her first seat in Myanmar’s parliament in a historic April by-election that was seen as a key step in the country’s transformation from military rule to fledgling democracy.

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