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The Soaring Use of Creative Commons Licenses

David Bollier
6th March 2015 David Bollier explains why the use of creative commons licenses is soaring in a global context. Creative Commons has just issued a report documenting usage patterns of its licenses. It’s great to learn that the number of works using CC...

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The Work of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Advancing the Promotio

The Work of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Advancing the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

Navi Pillay
5th March 2015 Navanethem Pillay, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, discusses how the United Nations, its human rights mechanisms, and all of us as individuals, can help to advance the realization of human rights. In recent times thare has been great...

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3 Key Steps to Eliminating Hunger

Shenggen Fan
4th March 2015 Shenggen Fan, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, outlines three steps for the elimination of hunger. This year’s World Economic Forum provided an opportunity for leaders from all sectors of global development...

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The Effectiveness of Peacekeeping during Civil War

Daniel Blocq
4th March 2015 Daniel Blocq provides a detailed study on the effectiveness of peacekeeping during civil war. The prevalence and destructiveness of civil wars in Mali, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and many other countries has spurred debates about...

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Documentary Review: Shored Up

Documentary Review: Shored Up

Reviewed by Scott McKenzie
3rd March 2015 Shored Up, directed and produced by Ben Kalina. USA: Mangrove Media 2013. 84 minutes, $23 limited edition DVD; $295 educational DVD, distributed by Outcast films. Hot summer days and golden beaches in front of the boardwalk: these images of the...

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China as G20 Host in 2016: Dawn of Asian Global Leadership?

China as G20 Host in 2016: Dawn of Asian Global Leadership?

Gregory Chin and Hugo Dobson
3rd March 2015 Gregory Chin and Hugo Dobson outline possible approaches for China's turn as G20 president. On 16 November 2014, the last day of the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot announced that the members of the G20 had agreed...

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4 Ways the Sharing Economy can Change the World

April Rinne
2nd March 2015 April Rinne, expert on sharing economies at the World Economic Forum, highlights four ways in which the sharing economy can change the world. Two years ago at Davos, the sharing economy was a foreign concept. Whenever I asked anyone I met if they...

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The long-term impact of war: the urgent challenge of sexual and gender based violence

Kate Bird
2nd March 2015 Kate Bird, Research Associate for ODI's Growth, Poverty and Inequality programme, looks at how the effects of conflict persist long after armed hostilities have ceased. An example is sexual and gender-based violence and its long-term effects,...

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Rich and Poor Nations can Link up to Recycle E-waste

Ruediger Kuehr and Feng Wang
26th February 2015 Ruediger Kuehr, head of Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE), and Feng Wang, research associate at SCYCLE, argue that a global system can tackle e-waste until developing countries can do so themselves. Since the 1990s, electrical and electronic equipment...

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Capitalism Defused the Population Bomb

Chelsea German
25th February 2015 Will humanity face starvation since food production rates slow down? Chelsea German from Cato Institute provides some useful insights to this question. Journalists know that alarmism attracts readers. Just yesterday, an article in the British...

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