Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Sep 1, 2008	Annan: Africa needs a green revolution
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands : Bringing a green revolution to Africa and feeding the continent’s 200 million hungry people is one of the greatest development challenges of this century, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday. Annan said a 50 percent jump in staple food...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Aug 8, 2008	080808: Let the Games Beijng
The Biggest and probably most controversial games in history. It’s a big day for China today. With its opening ceremony of the Beijng Olympics, it hopes to definitely settle its desired image of superpower in a world of shifting power, scarce resources, diverging trends of...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Aug 1, 2008	The true spirit of young people
- By Sandra van Beest , Youth Representative to the United Nations, 2007-2008. As youth representative of the Netherlands I have had the opportunity to represent Dutch young people at the United Nations. Through writing proposals for UN resolutions, negotiating to get the proposals in the...... [view]

Posted By:  unyimeabasi Posted On:  Jul 25, 2008	FOOD CRISIS
The current actions by the World Bank, ‘the New Deal’ and that of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), ‘the 10 Point Plan’ to stem global food crisis spanning from school feeding, food for work to the reduction of distorting subsidies and trade barriers are commendable....... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Jul 19, 2008	Land, Water And Conflict
As drylands get drier and violence grows, new crises resembling Darfur will arise. By Jeffrey Sachs | NEWSWEEK. July 7-14, 2008 issue. The world will experience a growing risk of conflicts over food, energy and water in coming years. The population rises each year by about 80 million...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Jun 30, 2008	The Girl Effect
Beautiful! The Girl Effect . Thanks to Anothercompany. ShareThis ... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Jun 20, 2008	World Refugee Day: Displacement in the 21st Century. A new paradigm
The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  May 5, 2008	Measuring Genuine Progress
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was first used in the United Kingdom to measure their war-time production. Since the whole economy was geared up to wage war, it was a fair measure of how much the system was turning over. While the second world war has finished, GDP is peculiarly still the...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Apr 23, 2008	How to save the world
Harvard prodigy Jeffrey Sachs helped take capitalism to Russia. Now he’s tackling Africa and climate change, he tells Ed Pilkington, and ‘negativism’ is all that stands in his way. An interesting interview with a notable person, about his renewed view towards the world and...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Apr 17, 2008	Rebuild Your Future
New Trailer for the project Rebuild Your Future. In co-operation with the Dutch National Youth Council , The Netherlands Refugee Foundation and UN Youth Representative Wouter Thiebou . See also www.rebuildyourfuture.nl ShareThis ... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan Posted On:  Apr 9, 2008	UN uses Google to pinpoint refugee crises
[ David Batty ] The United Nations is using the mapping programme Google Earth to highlight the plight of millions of refugees and its humanitarian work to help them. The outreach programme , a joint initiative between the internet giant and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR ), weaves...... [view]

ORBIS International
Submitted By:   benenson Website:  http://www.orbis.org Phone:  646-674-5500 E-mail:  info@orbis.org	Vision:   ORBIS International is a nonprofit global development organization whose vision is a world in which no one is needlessly blind, where quality eye care, education and treatment are available to every human being. Our......   [view]