Other news
-
16 November Nov 2015 1133 16 November 2015 -
16 November Nov 2015 1050 16 November 2015 The big questions we should ask ourselves
Why did Facebook activate a “Paris Safety Check” for the Paris tragedy but did not do the same for what happened in Beirut? Here is a list of questions we should ask ourselves after Paris to start the conversation from a different angle
-
13 November Nov 2015 1509 13 November 2015 The smartphone app feeding Syrian refugee children
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) launched a free app that will allow smartphone users worldwide to feed hungry children with a tap on their screens.
-
13 November Nov 2015 1401 13 November 2015 Women free to travel with their children
A step forward for women’s rights. The new law abolishes a long-established practice: getting permission from the children’s father.
-
12 November Nov 2015 1153 12 November 2015 G20 countries fail to keep their promises on fighting crime
G20 governments including the US and China have failed to deliver on their promise to fight corruption by adopting laws to end the secrecy that makes it easy for the corrupt to hide their identity and shift money across international borders.
-
10 November Nov 2015 0840 10 November 2015 Education and intercultural dialogue as tools against radicalisation
At a time of rising concerns in Europe over radicalization and violent extremism, the role that education and intercultural dialogue can play in promoting respect for diversity, pluralism and human rights is increasingly under the spotlight
-
9 November Nov 2015 1624 09 November 2015 India, education is no longer a matter of caste
A project involving thousands of families that aims at increasing access for the most disadvantaged families to educational opportunities and medical care.
-
8 November Nov 2015 1227 08 November 2015 The voice of the unheard
Radio Nikosia is the first Spanish radio produced by people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness.
-
7 November Nov 2015 1037 07 November 2015 ThinkYoung, the think tank giving youth a voice
It is an NGO that provides European youth under 30 with a platform for debates with decision-makers within Europe. ThinkYoung has been lobbying for young people since 2007 in Brussels, and in the last years it as expanded also to Geneva and Hong Kong.
-
5 November Nov 2015 1122 05 November 2015 In the bathroom doorway
The doubt faced by a young man who is son of a culture in which the victory of religion as an ideology has led to the destruction of any possibility to practice religion on his own terms, and on the on the other hand, he lives according to the dictates of a Western world in which the defeat of religion as ideology has led to the marginalization of religious practice from public life.
-
2 November Nov 2015 1731 02 November 2015 Bikes for refugees
In London a community of volunteers refurbishes abandoned bikes and donates them to refugees and asylum seekers
-
1 November Nov 2015 1949 01 November 2015 The app that gives new eyes to the blind
Be My Eyes is a non-profit app that uses video calls to connects blind users who need help with sighted users. The project has been selected to participate in Singularity University's accelerator program, which takes place at NASA's Research Centre in California.
-
1 November Nov 2015 1507 01 November 2015 “Male-dominated” governments paying lip service to landmark UN resolution on women’s role in peace processes
A landmark United Nations resolution that 15 years ago promised to bolster the rights of women in peace efforts has brought some welcome progress – but far too little to be judged a success overall, says Oxfam.
-
1 November Nov 2015 1123 01 November 2015 Saudi freedom lover Raif Badawi wins Sakharov Prize
Raif Badawi is the laureate of this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, following an October 29th decision by EP President Martin Schulz and the political group leaders.