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Friday Jul 16 2010 Martti Ahtisaari on the right to security and the fight against poverty. Fourth in a series of short videos from The Elders supporting one goal: education for all.
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: human_rights martti_ahtisaari peace poverty security the_elders
Friday Jul 09 2010 Dr. Gro Brundtland on the right to health and the link to poverty. First in a series of short videos from The Elders supporting one goal: education for all.
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action Tagged with: gro_brundtland health poverty the_elders
Monday Jan 25 2010  By Jim Selman | Bio
As we watch the devastation in Haiti on television, the world recoils at the horror and the suffering, mobilizes its resources and tries to clean up the mess and help the survivors. The media forages, looking for who to blame (usually corrupt or incompetent politicians). We’ve witnessed this scene following earthquakes countless times: in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake 2008 when 69,000 died in China; in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake when 230,000 died in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand; in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake where 86,000 died in Pakistan; in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake when 142,800 died in Japan; and even in 1908’s Messina earthquake when 100,000 died in Italy. If we think about the hurricanes, volcanoes, fires, tsunamis and famine, it seems the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” are doing a fabulous business these days. The fact is[Read More]
Written by eldering at Learning Tagged with: apathy disaster earthquake haiti haiti_earthquake ignorance learning poverty resignation responsibility
Tuesday Jul 08 2008 Nineteen years ago, the United Nations established World Population Day to affirm people's basic human right to plan their families. The Millenium Development Goals included commitments from 189 countries to halve poverty by 2015, reduce child and maternal deaths, curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, advance gender equality and promote sustainable development. If we are to achieve any of these, we must promote women's rights and invest in educating people of all ages and in all countries about HIV/AIDs, family planning and safe pregnancies and birth practices. The choices we make as individuals and couples alter the future of our communities and our world. Population and development are inextricably linked. As our awareness of the true cost of energy and food resources increases, we must also recognize that both developed and developing countries alike will be impacted by issues such as poverty and access to reproductive health services in terms of what is possible for a sustainable future. Read a statement from the executive director of the UN Population Fund on the occasion of 2008 World Population Day. Take action. [Read More]Tagged with: health mdgs poverty world_population_day
Tuesday May 13 2008 By David Korten | Great Turning website The second piece of the big picture of the human confrontation with the limits of our Mother Earth is an unraveling of the social fabric of civilization that is a consequence of extreme and growing inequality. A world divided between the profligate and the desperate cannot long endure. It intensifies competition for Earth’s resources, undermines the legitimacy of our institutions, and drives an unraveling of the social fabric of mutual trust and caring essential to healthy social function. [Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning Tagged with: equity ethanol inequality natural_wealth poverty resources
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