Map of freedom according to Freedom House
Since 1972 Freedom House publishes an annual report, Freedom in the World, on the degree of democratic freedoms in nations and significant disputed territories around the world, by which it seeks to assess the current state of civil and political rights on a scale from 1 (most free) to [...]
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Map of freedom
Posted in international organization, lobby, ngo, ong, pace, peace, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, tagged civil liberties, democracy, democrazia, diritti, diritti politici, diritti umani, freedom, freedom house, human rights, index of freedom, indice di libertà, libertà, libertà civili, libertie, map of freedom, politica, political rights, politics, rights on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open Society Institute – George Soros
Posted in cooperation, lobby, media, ngo, ong, pace, peace, people, politic, politica, security, sicurezza, society, società, sustainability, tagged batory, central european, ceu, charities, charity, civil society, communism, democracy, democrazia, diritti umani, eastern europe, est, europa, filantropia, fondazione, fondi, foundation, funding, george soros, human rights, independent media, movements, movimenti, no profit, open society, open society institute, OSI, partecipazione, participation, reform, revolution, riforme, rivoluzioni colorate, rivouluzioni, soros, soviet union, studenti, students, sviluppo, transition, transizione, università, university on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At [...]
DARFUR: “China and USA in New Cold War over Africa’s Oil Riches”
Posted in energy, media, peace, people, politic, tagged africa, chad, china, cold war, darfur, engdahl, globalresearch, oil, oil riches, petroleum, reserves, sources, sudan, uranium, usa on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by F. William Engdahl
The case of Darfur, a forbidding piece of sun-parched real estate in the southern part of Sudan, illustrates the new Cold War over oil, where the dramatic rise in China’s oil demand to fuel its booming growth has led Beijing to embark on an aggressive policy [...]
Ten Reasons Why “Save Darfur” is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa
Posted in advertising, ecology, energy, enviroment, international organization, lobby, media, ong, peace, people, politic, resource, society, tagged africa, arab, black, bruce dixon, congo, darfur, dixon, genocide, globalresearch, lobby, media, oil, pr scam, resources, save darfur, sudan, uranium, US, war on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Bruce Dixon
The “Save Darfur” Hoax, pt.1/2
The star-studded hue and cry to Save Darfur and “stop the genocide” has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period [...]
Sustainability – Ecosostenibilità
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, ngo, ong, peace, people, politic, resource, salute, science, security, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged brundtland, climate change, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, enviroment, oil depletion, riciclo, rinnovamento, sustainability, sustainable development, sviluppo sostenibile on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainability discourse is discussion of how to make human economic systems last longer and have less impact on ecological systems, and particularly relates to concern over major global problems relating to climate change and oil depletion.
One of the first and most oft-cited definitions of sustainability, and almost certainly the one that [...]
The UN Millennium Development Goals
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, peace, people, politic, resource, risorse, salute, society, solidarity, sustainability, tagged aids, deseas, development, empower women, enviroment, gender equality, global partnership, hiv, hunger, jeremy rifkin, malaria, maternal health, MDG, poverty, primary education, UN on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to [...]
How much biofuels contribute to higher food prices?
Posted in ambiente, cooperation, ecologia, ecology, ecosostenibilità, energy, enviroment, health, international organization, pace, peace, people, politic, resource, risorse, salute, security, sicurezza, society, solidarietà, solidarity, sustainability, tagged alimentation, émeut, biocarburanti, biofuel, céréales, cereal, cereali, cibo, ethanol, faim, fame, FAO, food, pauvreté, prices, riot, rivolte, UN on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
video by mdr+ design via youtube
The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries [...] But now a reaction is building against policies in the United States and Europe to promote ethanol and similar fuels, [...]
