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Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Oct 11, 2008

  Former Finnish President Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Martti Ahtisaari at a news conference in Kosovo in 2006. Hazir Reka/Reuters LONDON — Former President  Martti Ahtisaari  of  Finland , who has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades, won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday In its...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Sep 28, 2008

  Lower castes get a leg up in the new India

By Somini Sengupta AZAMGARH DISTRICT, India: When Chandra Bhan Prasad visits his ancestral village in these feudal badlands of northern India, he dispenses the following advice to his fellow untouchables: Get rid of your cattle, because the care of animals demands children’s labor....... [view]

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:  Jul 31, 2008

  2008 most liveable cities

The Monocle Global Quality of Life Index may one day graduate to adopt a scientific methodology that considers a larger spectrum of cities around the world, but I’m happy to settle for their current coverage and play the my-city-is-better-than-yours game, using the tidbits of quick facts...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Aug 12, 2008

  This is SCHOOL

Cotton Candy Blue - Bridget (Ireland) Lovely concept, great design. ‘This is SCHOOL’  is a t-shirt that’s a counterpoint to all the negative sentiment the Beijing Olympics has been stirring up.  And it is also a reminder that the Olympics is all about UNITY, which...... [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 7, 2008

  Belgian Blog ‘Award’

I was happily surprised today to find an e-mail in my Inbox that I was awarded a Belgian Blog ‘Bokaal’ (literally a jar, but in this case an award) by the Dutch weblog Sargasso , a big name in the Dutch blogosphere. Thanks for the honour! In tradition with following up this...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Aug 3, 2008

  From world citizen to young internationalist

Time changes, all the time around us. Time flies when you’re having fun. Time can change step by step or it can leapfrog. In such situations, you can do three things: you can sit at the side and watch as a conservative as things go by and the world changes, you can try to row against...... [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:  Mar 19, 2008

  Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn

Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a “hell-disaster”. Read more in...... [view]

Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Mar 19, 2008

  Authentic

Where are you going? ‘Do you treat life as a journey, with a destination or as a stroll, with no particular objective? If you do see life as a journey - what is your destination, where are you going? ‘ Neill Crofts is founding father and the brain behind a  great new...... [view]

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