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The future we want and the future we’re actually working for
Written by Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
In 2000, all United Nations Member States, aiming at combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women, adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals. The established framework had a clear deadline: 2015. Yet despite important progress in several countries, there is still a great deal to be done. […]
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#TAFTA #TTIP ist nicht nur ein ökonomisches Thema – es geht vor allem um Verbraucher und Bürger
Written by Ole Wintermann
“Internet und Globalisierung” lautet die Überschrift der derzeitigen Kooperation des virtuellen Think Tanks Internet & Gesellschaft Collaboratory und unserem Projekt Futurechallenges.org. Wie beeinflussen sich Globalisierung und die Entwicklung des Internets gegenseitig? Die aktuellen Verhandlungen um ein Freihandelsabkommen zwischen den USA und der EU fokussieren dabei alle zentralen Fragen, die […]
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Basilicata: Oil brings neither growth nor sustainability.
Written by Di Bello Emanuele
Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on three other regions – Campania, Puglia and Calabria- and two seas – the Tyrrhenian and Ionian. In many ways it represents a typical Italian paradox. Basilicata is my region and I love it. Basilicata – or Lucania if you […]
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Poland’s “Little Italy” is a sign of the times
Written by Di Bello Emanuele
Wroclaw is a city with a complicated historical background: in the course of its one thousand year history, the capital of the Lower Silesian District –Voivodeship- has been under Bohemian, Austrian, Prussian and German control, before re-becoming Polish in the aftermath of World War II. With its past, this city […]
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Prevent Uganda’s looming climate catastrophe
Written by Mubatsi
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati When the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was giving remarks at the climate talks (COP18) in Qatar last year, one fact caught my attention. Ki-Moon said no one is immune to climate change –rich or poor. In Uganda, like for the rest of the world, there […]
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More deception for Deception Bay: funding cuts in Australia
Written by Dominika Ricardi
Despite popular opinion that Australia has been immune to the worst of the global financial crisis, it’s the stories you don’t hear about, that tell us the woes Australia’s economy is traversing. Both federal and state governments have implemented a variety of austerity policies in an effort to “bring the budget […]
