Wrestling with a Twist
With the Olympic games just round the corner, the Afghan Olympic committee is doing everything it can to train and send the maximu…
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Victory Lap
Winning or losing is not important. What is important is to take part. This is perhaps the motto that the Afghan Olympic committee…
Are Klout and/or Kred Encouraging Online Elitism?
Whether Klout and/or Kred are accurate in assessing social media influence and which one is more credible in the task is becoming …
Continuing Efforts to Improve the Education System in Afghanistan
This video documents the improvements at an All-girl high school in Afghanistan. Associates of Film Annex built a computer room fr…
UN Public Service Day: How Many Next Year?
United Nations Public Service Day is June 23, 2012, (but this year observe on June 25, 2012), and the UNs top brass hailed the vit…
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…
The Incubator
I don't know about you, but after I published last week's article, I was still intrigued about this whole incubator and technology…
Mexico's "Drug Lord" Really Used Car Salesman
It has become a staple of de-facto reality TV in Mexico arrest the big drug lord and then parade him in front of cameras and medi…
Strengthening Human Rights Treaty Body
Strengthening the Human Rights Treaty Body is the title, but it assumes a broad evaluation and consequent recommendations. The 10 …
Rio+20: Failure or Success?
The speeches are over. Now the work begins. Rio+20 has affirmed fundamental principles renewed essential commitments and given u…
