Civil society 13 October Oct 2017 1628 13 October 2017 Celebrities join call on Turkey to release human right defenders Staff Stars of stage and screen have added their voices to the global demand for the immediate and unconditional release of a group of prominent human rights defenders in Turkey, one hundred days after they were detained, Amnesty International reveals.
Poverty 11 October Oct 2017 1757 11 October 2017 France, circular economy helping the most needy Cristina Barbetta The Agence du Don en Nature (Adn) collects new non-food unsold products from enterprises and it redistributes them to the most needy thanks to a network of more than 750 local associations in France. Every year the Adn contributes to help 850.000 people in need and redistributes every week more than 600.000 euros of new products
Poverty 10 October Oct 2017 1600 10 October 2017 Here are the toughest places in the world for a girl to get an education Staff A new report by The One Campaign reveals the ten toughest countries and highlights some of the many unique barriers girls face
Finance 10 October Oct 2017 1303 10 October 2017 Money from the ECB invested into gambling, oil and weapons Marco Dotti Everybody talks about it. But what is Quantitative Easing? And where does the money go? Corporate Europe Observatory has made a list of the beneficiaries of the European Central Bank’s corporate bond purchasing scheme. The results are disturbing, unless you think that oil, fancy cars, motorways, champagne, and gambling are a good place to put public money...
Projects 5 October Oct 2017 1535 05 October 2017 Change Please, when the homeless become baristas Cristina Barbetta The entrepreneur Cemal Ezel and The Big Issue, the world's most widely circulated street newspaper sold by homeless people, have launched a social enterprise helping the homeless, training them as baristas.