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Katie Day

Infographic: Seeking Refuge -- Dec 2009 - Wall Street Journal - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...info-WorldRefugees0906.html

G5_help refugees international

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  • Katie Day on 12 Dec 09
     
    Shows the largest groups of global refugees, according to the UN
Aman DC

who is epic arts? - 0 views

www.epicarts.org.uk/index.php

G5_help 5RTo

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  • Epic Arts is an arts charity established in 2001. We organise and run visual art, drama, dance and music projects for people with disabilities in the UK, Cambodia and other international locations. Our projects celebrate the creative potential of those with whom we work, by offering new skills and giving each participant an outlet for their creative expression. Epic Arts works with the philosophy that Every Person Counts (EPiC).
    • Antonio D
      Antonio D on 15 Apr 10
       
      Gives A Good Desciption Of What This Organization Does
    • Kavya D
      Kavya D on 15 Apr 10
       
      Gives information on site and what it does.
  • Ajay V on 15 Apr 10
     
    All about Epic Arts
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  • Antonio D on 15 Apr 10
     
    This Is The Site For Epic Arts
  • Kavya D on 15 Apr 10
     
    This is the homepage for the organization Epic Arts.
  • Aman DC on 15 Apr 10
     
    A good site for people who are learning about support and education
Zoe P

Krousar Thmey - 0 views

www.krousar-thmey.org/e

g5_help cambodia

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    • Chloe W
      Chloe W on 15 Apr 10
       
      List of needs here... how shall we raise money?
  • First Cambodian Foundation assisting deprived children, Krousar Thmey provides deprived Cambodian children with material, educational and social support in harmony with their environment and respectful of their traditions and beliefs. Our purpose is to help children develop and blossom into responsible adults. Krousar Thmey takes great care that its aid neither creates disharmony between a child and his relatives and friends, nor creates privileged or dependent children.
  • First Cambodian Foundation assisting deprived children, Krousar Thmey provides deprived Cambodian children with material, educational and social support in harmony with their environment and respectful of their traditions and beliefs. Our purpose is to help children develop and blossom into responsible adults. Krousar Thmey takes great care that its aid neither creates disharmony between a child and his relatives and friends, nor creates privileged or dependent children.
  • Chloe W on 15 Apr 10
     
    homepage of Krousar Thmey
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  • Ajay V on 15 Apr 10
     
    Krousar Thmey, first Cambodian Foundation assisting deprived children.
  • Aisha P on 15 Apr 10
     
    First Cambodian Foundation assisting deprived children, Krousar Thmey provides deprived Cambodian children with material, educational and social support in harmony with their environment and respectful of their traditions and beliefs. Our purpose is to help children develop and blossom into responsible adults. Krousar Thmey takes great care that its aid neither creates disharmony between a child and his relatives and friends, nor creates privileged or dependent children.
  • Yashaswani S on 15 Apr 10
     
    Great Exhibition Help. Learn more about organisations.
  • Zoe P on 15 Apr 10
     
    Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
Jean Luc L

Degrowth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/Degrowth

wikipedia degrowth environment G5_help 5RTo

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  • Ecological footprint Main article: Ecological footprint The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste. According to a 2005 Global Footprint Network report,[7] while inhabitants of high-income countries live off of 6.4 global hectares (gHa), while those from low-income countries live off of a single gHa. For example, while each inhabitant of Bangladesh lives off of what they produce from 0.56 gHa, a North American requires 12.5 gHa. Each inhabitant of North America uses 22.3 times as much land as a Bangladeshi. Of the 12.5 hectares used by the North American, 5.5 is located in the United States, and the rest is found in foreign countries.[7] According to the same report, the average number of global hectares per person was 2.1, while current consumption levels have reached 2.7 hectares per person. In order for the world's population to attain the living standards typical of European countries, the resources of between three and eight planet Earths would be required. In order for world economic equality to be achieved with the current available resources, rich countries would have to reduce their standard of living through degrowth. The eventual reduction of all available resources would lead to a forced reduction in consumption. Controlled reduction of consumption would reduce the trauma of this change.
  • Degrowth and Sustainable Development Degrowth thought is in opposition to all forms of productivist economics. It is, thus, also opposed to sustainable development. While the concern for sustainability does not contradict degrowth, sustainable development is rooted in mainstream development ideas that aim to increase capitalist growth and consumption. Degrowth therefore sees sustainable development as an oxymoron[8], as any development based on growth in a finite and environmentally stressed world is seen as inherently unsustainable. Since current levels of consumption exceed the Earth's ability to regenerate these resources, economic growth will lead to their exhaustion. Those in favor of sustainable development argue that continued economic growth is possible if consumption of energy and resources is reduced. Furthermore, growth-based development has been shown to be more effective in expanding social inequality, concentrating wealth in the hands of a few, than in actually generating more wealth and increasing living standards[9][10]. Critics of degrowth argue that a slowing of economic growth would result in increased unemployment and increase poverty. Many who understand the devastating environmental consequences of growth still advocate for economic growth in the South, even if not in the North. But, a slowing of economic growth would fail to deliver the benefits of degrowth—self-sufficiency, material responsibility—and would indeed lead to decreased employment. Rather, degrowth proponents advocate for a complete abandonment of the current (growth) economic system, suggesting that relocalizating and abandoning the global economy in the Global South would allow people of the South to become more self-sufficient and would end the overconsumption and exploitation of Southern resources by the North
Shaian R

Sierra Leone - 0 views

www.state.gov/...100503.htm

children's rights Sierra Leone g5_help

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    • Shaian R
      Shaian R on 25 Apr 10
       
      this is a good page for Sieerra leoene childrens rights
  • Shaian R on 25 Apr 10
     
    "U.S. Department of State - Great Seal U.S. Department of State * Blog * Video * Photos * News * Share * Contact Us * Skip Navigation * Secretary Clinton o Remarks o Travel o Photos o Biography o More... * Media Center o Daily Press Briefings o Press Releases & Special Briefings o Remarks, Testimony by Senior Officials o Op-Eds by Department Officials o Policy Issues o Foreign Press Center o State @ Work o Ask the Department o Video o DipNote Blog o Photo Gallery o Email Subscriptions o RSS News Feeds o More... * Travel o Passports o Visas o Travel Information o Emergency Services o Intercountry Adoption o Parental Child Abduction o Foreign Per Diem Rates o More... * Careers o Foreign Service Officer o Civil Service Officer o Foreign Service Specialist o Civilian Response Corps o Student Programs o International Organizations o USAJobs: Working for America o More... * Business o Business Support: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) o Global Partnership Initiative o Commercial and Business Affairs Office o Key Officers of Foreign Service Posts o Trade Policy and Programs o Country Commercial Guides o Defense Trade Controls o Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization o Guide To Doing Business o Recovery and Reinvestment Act o More... * Youth and Education o Student Website o Diplomatic History o Virtual Student Foreign Service o Exchange Visitor Program o Fulbright Program o Student Career Programs
Shaian R

Sierra Leone: Child Soldiers - 0 views

pangaea.org/...armies.htm

Sierra leone g5_help

shared by Shaian R on 25 Apr 10 - Cached
    • Shaian R
      Shaian R on 25 Apr 10
       
      this page is like a bibliography
  • Shaian R on 25 Apr 10
     
    "While in Sierra Leone a couple of summers ago, I visited Grafton Camp, a facility for recently demobilized child soldiers operated by UNICEF and local partners. Many of the boys, ranging from nine to 16 years of age, had killed people as they fought in a civil war that paused with a fragile cease-fire in 1995. The camp director said that when the youths had been given drugs-most likely, amphetamines-while soldiering, they "would do just about anything that was ordered." Some, he added, were proud of having been effective killers. These boys, who had shortly before been willing to kill and who had never received an adequate foundation of moral development, danced with enormous energy and played cooperative games under the supervision of the camp's counselors. As I watched, it was sobering to think that under certain conditions, practically any child could be changed into a killer. But today, it is even more sobering to see once again how easily children who have been denied education and trained for fighting are manipulated by local political leaders. Fighting has resumed in Sierra Leone following a May coup, and many of the combatants are under 18. They have become part of a continuing cycle of violence. A soldier at seven The nature of armed conflict has changed greatly in recent years. The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of ethnopolitical conflicts that are seldom fought on well-defined battlefields. Conflicts are increasingly internal, and they are characterized by butchery; violence against women, and atrocities sometimes committed by former neighbors. More than 80 percent of the victims are noncombatants, mostly women and children. Increasingly children serve as combatants or as cooks, informants, porters, bodyguards, sentries, and spies. Many child soldiers belong to organized military units, wear uniforms, and receive explicit training, their lethality enhanced by the widespread availability of lightweight assault weapons. Other children participa
Shaian R

Rainforest Deforestation - 0 views

kanat.jsc.vsc.edu/...mainpage.htm

5LWh

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  • What Can I Do? As an individual, many people feel that there is little they can do to stop a problem as big as tropical deforestation. This type of pessimist thinking needs to be stopped, replace pessimism with optimism and many solutions will arise! Recycling paper can slow rates of annual deforestation. The largest component of solid waste by weight in the US is paper and paperboard (EPA, 1998). Roughly 40% of municipal solid waste is paper; each year about 71.8 million tons are generated (EPA, 1998). From an environmental or economic standpoint, it makes sense to recycle; not only can money be saved, but also trees. Valuable landfill space is prolonged; for every ton of recycled paper, three cubic yards of landfill are saved (EPA, 1998). Purchase items that carry the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) image (Figure 11). The FSC, founded in 1993, is an international, non-profit association, that issues certificates for well managed forests; economic, social, indigenous, and environmental interests are all taken into account. To be classified as a well managed forest, the forest's ecosystem can not damaged, only low volumes of trees are expelled, and impacts on plant and animal life are limited (Greenpeace, 2001B).
  • Over 2000 tropical plants have been identified as having anti-cancer properties (RIC, 2000B). One of these plants may lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer. Over 25% of the world's modern drug originally came from rainforests (RIC, 2000B). Many contraceptives, stimulants, and tranquilizers commonly used today originated in tropical rainforests. In 1987, a tree compound that was 100% effective against the HIV-1 virus was found in a Malaysian gum tree (Rainforest Alliance, 1999). When research biologists were sent back to get more samples from the tree, it had already been cut down. Unfortunately, no tree found since has produced the same compound (Rainforest Alliance, 1999). If deforestation continues at current rate humankind may lose the cure to two of the world's most fatal diseases.
Katie Day

Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/..._the_music_of_a_war_child.html

G5_conflict music ted_talks war children

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  • For five years, young Emmanuel Jal fought as a child soldier in the Sudan. Rescued by an aid worker, he's become an international hip-hop star and an activist for kids in war zones. In words and lyrics, he tells the story of his amazing life.
  • Katie Day on 24 Oct 09
     
    Would need to screen before showing it to kids -- I forget how disturbing his story is....
Katie Day

RESPOND - Geographic information services for the Humanitarian Aid community - 0 views

www.respond-int.org/respondlive

G5_help global_concerns maps aid humanitarian

shared by Katie Day on 24 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Respond is an alliance of European and International organisations working with the humanitarian community to improve access to maps, satellite imagery and geographic information. As a community response to real and urgent User need for global humanitarian mapping, Respond began during 2004, as one of the 2nd tranche of ESAs GMES Service Element (GSE) projects. Stage 2 began in November 2006 and will run until the end of October 2009.
  • Katie Day on 24 Oct 09
     
    For the lending a hand UOI
Katie Day

World Digital Library Home - 0 views

www.wdl.org/en

libraries digital international world united_nations culture archives images history online research G5_voices

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  • Katie Day on 22 Oct 09
     
    images / cultural artefacts from around the world, e.g., old maps - thinking this would be good for the Voices from the Past unit of inquiry
Antara V

Regions/Afghanistan - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 0 views

www.carnegieendowment.org/regions

afghanistan

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  • Antara V on 03 Nov 09
     
    a great website for all the wars in Afghanistan
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