Food Speculation Creating Hunger?
Excessive food price volatility, especially at the speed at which price swings have been occurring since 2007, has negative impact…
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UN Promoting Healthy Standards for Food/Eating
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is joint work of the UNs WHO (World Health Organization) and the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organ…
Afghanistan blog articles
Afghanistan is not a country tha5t you have imagined.I want to say that it is not exactly a country of full of havoc and terrorism…
"Obamacare" Winners/Losers According to Wall Street
Not particularly impressed by appeals to prejudice and/or partisanship, as above pic from visiontoamerica.org. Rather, look at how…
Drug Abuse Treatment Globally Lacking?
Drug dependence is a disorder that can be treated effectively but, unfortunately, the large majority of persons who need it do not…
Obscenity-Changing Global Definition?
Has our definition of obscenity devolved in last few decades? This UN photograph from 1974 describes A mother and child at a famil…
Women’s Empowerment as Yardstick for Sustainable Development at Rio+20
We cannot afford to leave women marginalized. This is not sustainable. This social exclusion of women is not only hurting women, i…
DREAM
When we are children we all dream of what we'll become when we grow up. But some of us from very early on know that we are destine…
Children with Disabilities Included in “Day of the African Child”
UNICEF this year has called upon families, communities and governments to protect children with disabilities from discrimination, …
Ageing the right way
For the first time in human history, the world will soon have more older people than children. By mid-century, 2 billion men and w…
