Pinheirinho eviction raises concern over costs of development
Early in the morning on 22 January, approximately 2000 police officers entered a settlement in Pinheirinho, located on the outskirts of São Jose dos Campos in southern Brazil. With helicopters overhead, tear gas ready, and batons in hand, the officers cleared some 8,000 people from the community. Under Brazilian law, if urban land is occupied [...]
Afghanistan: mobile phones an “affordable luxury”
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communication & Information Technology is currently implementing the second wave of its World Bank supported Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector Development Project. The project, approved last year, builds on the success of a series of programs and policies that have dramatically changed the telecommunication environment of Afghanistan over the past decade. [...]
Business leaders on sustainable growth and Rio+20
In just over four months from now heads of state will convene in Brazil for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, called Rio+20 in reference to the city where the first such conference took place 20 years ago. Rio+20 will focus on promoting a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty [...]
In Brazil and elsewhere, cooperation is at the center of attention
Video Courtesy ILO The idea of cooperatives and other solidarity economy enterprises resonates with many, namely because their models prioritize people over profit. With the recent launch of the United Nations 2012 International Year of Cooperatives and FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva’s emphasis on the importance of cooperatives and producer organizations to global [...]
Tourism can save wetlands
The world’s fragile wetlands can be protected by sustainable tourism, but not without certain risks, said the head of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the UN agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable, and universally accessible tourism. “Tourism in wetlands, when properly managed and developed, plays a major part in supporting those [...]
Rio+20: trade can benefit the environment
For the second time in January, trade experts and environmentalists met together at UN Headquarters in New York to plan for more effective collaboration at Rio+20 in June. “We are building a bridge between the two communities of trade and environment, which are usually separated in negotiations,” Eugenia Nunez, Economic Affairs Officer at the UN [...]
Women work toward empowerment in Latin America
A new UN Women Regional Center for Latin America and the Caribbean was opened in late October 2011 in Panama City. It is the first of sixregional centers planned by UN Women, the year-old UN agency working for gender equality and women empowerment. Interviewed by MediaGlobal, Michelle Bachelet, the UN Women Executive Director and former [...]
Fending off a food crisis in West Africa
The food crisis in the Horn of Africa, identified by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) as the largest global humanitarian crisis today, looks to be moving west. With signs of growing demand for food and rising prices in Niger and neighboring countries, international organizations are coming together to prevent a [...]
Digital Development: A Look Inside UN’s Global Pulse Lab
UN Global Pulse presentation at the United Nations with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon | Photo by Laurent Y. Peter | MediaGlobal See UN Global Pulse -Pulse Lab( Jakarta | Kampala) presentation video below The words tech start-up, international development and the United Nations are rarely uttered in the same sentence, but Global Pulse, the Office of [...]
Nepal’s economy dependent on exploitation
A poor economy and lack of opportunities are forcing more and more Nepalese women to leave home and earn money abroad as domestic workers. Separated from their own children to take care of other women’s children in the Middle East or America, many of these women are mistreated and exploited. Aware of the risks, tens [...]
THE GLOBAL MEDIA COMPACT: MediaGlobal in Partnership with the United Nations
In a bid to increase awareness of the challenges facing the world’s poorest countries, the United Nations has partnered with MediaGlobal to assist newspaper editors, broadcasters, and owners of media companies in advancing human development by featuring stories that raise international awareness of issues of poverty, disease, and hunger in the most vulnerable countries.
The Global Media Compact aims to assist newspaper editors, broadcasters, and owners of media companies in advancing human development by featuring stories that raise international awareness of issues of poverty, disease, and hunger in the most vulnerable countries in Africa. READ MORE
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