Transport ministers yesterday (9 October) gave the go-ahead to the launch of the development phase of the EU's next-generation air traffic management system. But airlines slammed the EU for giving higher priority to a "burdensome" emissions trading scheme than to realising the 'Single European Sky', which they say could significantly reduce aviation...
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) launched a new website. The new layout provides easy access to important documents and publications, such as Disarmament Yearbook, status and text of disarmament treaties, text of resolutions and decisions of the General Assembly related to disarmament, news......
Nata Primary School night watchman has a unique way of waking up the school's staff and the surrounding tenets with in a mile radius. This old truck rim is the school's bell for the students at Nata Primary School. The night watchmans job is to hit the rim five times in the early morning 5:00 am, the five dongs will wake up the school staff living in the community. The students hear the first five dongs and have an hour and a half to get ready for......
Mission Staement: The National Disaster Management Office is committed to coordinating and ensuring effective implementation of the National Disaster Management Policy by facilitating the provision of comprehensive and integrated disaster management programmes for both natural and man-made disasters through effective measures of planning, early warning systems mitigation, preparedness, response and......
The One campaign is doing a bus tour during the U.S election. The tour's purpose is to raise awareness of the issues of poverty, and to try to put pressure on the candidates to make poverty issues a priority. The tour stop was part of a prize from the One organization. The students of WKU won by collecting more signatures than any other in a petition to be given to both the candidates. Bowling Green Daily News writer Joanie Baker introduces us to one of the bus riders.from the Bowling Green Daily NewsMegan Schweizer took two months off from her job in Louisville to do something for which most people would go to jail.After learning about the One Campaign organization three years ago at the University of Louisville, Schweizer became an active member in spreading the word to politicians on...
Ethiopia on Thursday signed a 220-million-euro (300 million dollar) deal with a French company for the construction of Africa's largest wind...
A tremendous feeling this week:In the Central province of Hue, in a tiny village by the beach, a group of girls walk home from school.Just weeks ago, these same girls were working in garment factories in Ho Chi Minh City, 700kms away. Having been bought by traffickers, sold to factories, and rescued by Blue Dragon... finally, finally, they are back where they belong: with their families, in their communities.I can't help but smile....
Deposit insurance limitsAmid the worst current financial crisis since the 1930s, some government leaders have pledged to protect savers’ deposits and others are considering this option. Already most OECD countries have explicit deposit insurance schemes for savings up to certain limits. In a number of countries these have now been raised temporarily. Until the latest statements suggesting unlimited guarantees in some countries, legal coverage was highest in Norway, France, Italy and Mexico (see graph). Click here for full story....
Last week, we posted a story about comments from the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir. Yes, the same one who is committing genocide to the people in Darfur. I thought it was weird that he would show his face in a summit, and make charges against the international community. I also thought it was weird that he was the chair of this group's summit.We found this commentary on the international community turning a blind eye to the killings in Sudan. In fact, the international groups still put this killer in charge of things. And some very important things at that. from The New Republic But the largest and most influential group of developing nations has added an ill-considered and wholly gratuitous burden to the challenges of the MDG: they have selected the Sudan government, which continues...
Yes, the rising cost of food and fuel have hurt the whole world, even you and me. In fact, the big banks have said that the increases will push another 100 million into poverty. With meetings going on now with would financial leaders, lots of reports are beeing issued. This one caught our eye, that names specific countries that are the feeling the effects the worse. from ReutersAmong the "fiscally vulnerable" countries are Jordan, Cambodia, Lebanon, Jamaica, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, Madagascar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Malawi, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Fiji, Haiti, Seychelles and Mauritania.The report, published ahead of weekend International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings of finance and development ministers, said many of these countries had little or no room to take on new...
NELUMWEWA, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Hundreds of families uprooted from villages in Sri Lanka's northwestern Kurunegala District are having to learn new ways of growing rice in the salty soils of their new homes in Puttalam District. Moved to make way for an irrigation project near the Deduru Oya river, they were relocated to Nelumwewa, where observers say higher rates of evaporation are increasing the land's...
DAKAR, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Sexual exploitation in African schools has become so widespread that children have come up with their own terms to refer to sexual relations with their teachers. From Sexually Transmitted Grades' to BF', or bordel fatigue, which refers to exhaustion from multiple sexual activities with teachers, this slang hints at the prevalence of exploitation in Africa's learning environments....
Notes from Tim Berners Lee’s investiture ceremony as doctor honoris causa, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, October 10th, 2008.
Manuel Castells: Laudatio for Sir Timothy Berners-Lee
Quoting Tim Berners-Lee (TBL): the World can be seen as just connections, nothing else.
Net neutrality has to be maintained as one of its genuine foundations, not to create a new digital divide amongst the ones that can freely surf the Internet and those who cannot.
Timothy Berners-Lee
The Web is just a platform for people to do new things.
Lots of things that happen on the web are there just because someone else let them happen, and let people go on with their ideas… just like the Web, that in a first draft was dubbed as vage… but exciting.
Keeping one web is important, securing...
Despite difficult security conditions, ICRC staff are pressing ahead with their activities aiming at addressing the needs of the people worst affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence in eastern Chad. The lack of security remains the primary factor impeding displaced people from returning to their homes, and the main challenge for the delivery of humanitarian aid. ICRC activities from July to September 2008...
MOMBASA, Oct 10 (IPS) - Arguably one of the world’s most popular fruits,
bananas are poorly marketed as a value-added commercial crop in
Africa. But that is about to change as a plan is being
conceptualised to transform the way Africa produces and sells...
10 October 2008 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) today signed an agreement to enhance their cooperation to promote and support education, research and technical and institutional capacities in developing...
10 October 2008 - Climate change and bioenergy are the focus of this year’s World Food Day activities, expected to involve over 150 countries. FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in...
GULU, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - John Kibwola, 14, braves the scorching afternoon sun as he sells his collection of plastic bottles along Acholi Street in the northern Ugandan town of...
DILI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of people are preparing for their third bout of flooding since 2006 in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) as the rainy season once again descends on...
NAIROBI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Ahead of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings on 13 October, the World Bank reports that countries already suffering food and fuel price inflation may now also see declines in exports, trade and investment as a result of financial turmoil that is becoming increasingly...
Online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace attract millions of users, who each reveal vast amounts of personal data to become members. Names, contact details, gender, sexual preferences, political and religious opinions, education and employment history are routinely made available by members – at their own risk –...
An EU requirement for refurbished buildings to meet nationally-set minimum energy efficiency standards is to be extended to all buildings regardless of their size, according to draft legislation from the European commission's energy...
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NAIROBI, 10 October 2008 (IRIN) - Kenya's Ministry of Health has launched a four-day nationwide campaign to retreat at least 1.8 million bed nets with long-lasting insecticide to control the spread of malaria as the rainy season sets in, a senior health official...
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Millions Worldwide Suffer Unnecessarily
Governments around the world, including those in low and middle income countries, should take urgent action to stop the unnecessary suffering of millions of people from severe but treatable pain, Human Rights Watch said today, ahead of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on October 11....
Many have said, life is just like an open book, easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to forget.... Let see if my life is just a book.
Ever since I can remember me and my sister are always fighting about everything. I admit she's smarter, older, and favored by my parents. What can I do she's been the "unica iha" for 13 years before I came. Many times we've fight about whose gonna watch t.v., who will use the bike first, and even whose going to take a bath first even I'm really late for something... I really hate my sister.
When the time she reached 18, my sister got "pregy" (pregnant). I really enjoyed her sufferings of my sister and prayed my parents would kick her out of the house and dis-owned her... That's how I really hate my sister.
But now I can't understand what happened...
Many have said, life is just like an open book, easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to forget.... Let see if my life is just a book.
Ever since I can remember me and my sister are always fighting about everything. I admit she's smarter, older, and favored by my parents. What can I do she's been the "unica iha" for 13 years before I came. Many times we've fight about whose gonna watch t.v., who will use the bike first, and even whose going to take a bath first even I'm really late for something... I really hate my sister.
When the time she reached 18, my sister got "pregy" (pregnant). I really enjoyed her sufferings of my sister and prayed my parents would kick her out of the house and dis-owned her... That's how I really hate my sister.
But now I can't understand what happened...