Dr Gursharan Singh KainthDirector General,Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development StudiesThe movement towards a more inclusive and diverse workplace is a progressive development. A major limb of this movement is the drive towards creating workplace policies that encourage more women to enter and more crucially, continue to be a part of the workforce. It is […]
Visitors: 422On 5 April 2017, the European Union and the United Nations will hold a joint conference on the future of Syria and its region. “Civil Society” is invited to participate, but it is not clear in advance if the Brussels meeting will be a “fund raising” one, in which case most non-governmental organizations (NGO) […]
Visitors: 513 I believe that the One World which is emerging can come into existence only if a New Man comes into being – a man who has emerged from the archaic ties of blood and soil, and who feels himself to be a citizen of the world whose loyalty is to the human race […]
Visitors: 534I recently had a dialogue with a person who had emailed me about a friend of hers who had been mis-treated for years by drug-prescribing psychiatrists. The psychiatrists – and their alarming and illogical drugging – had made him worse and worse and eventually totally disabled over the years. Because of the high probability […]
Visitors: 737 The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way… It is this spiritual foundation that cannot be taken away – that makes life meaningful and purposeful. Viktor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) whose birth anniversary we mark on […]
Visitors: 351 Researchers from premier Indian medical and neuroscience research institutes as AIIMS-Delhi, NBRC-Manesar and JIPMER led by Dr. Ashutosh Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy, JIPMER-Karaikal have recently published a research which unravels regulatory role of an exclusive family of molecules in brain functions and cognition. The research report titled “Regulatory role of NGFs […]
Visitors: 542L’Alfàs del Pi, Spain Female emancipation, patriarchic family decline and femicide are with us, the femicide according to UN[i] particularly in Guatemala, Mexico and Australia-Canada-South Africa-USA. And here in Spain women are also killed by (ex)husbands and (ex)lovers: 44 by “their” men in 2016, 60 in 2015[ii], first two months of 2017 maybe 17[iii]. […]
Visitors: 680Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. [themify_quote]Coda: It is WRONG — morally, ethically, legally — for any nation or people to pursue political, economic, and/or cultural interests, security and safety by openly or insidiously imposing upon any other nation or people, a form of political, economic, culture (e.g., values, religion, language), and/or military invasion, occupation, and control that […]
Visitors: 552ROME, Mar 27 2017 (IPS) – For over 400 years, more than 15 million men, women and children were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, one of the darkest chapters in human history. Slavery is, nevertheless, far from being just a chapter of the past—it still there, with estimated 21 million victims of […]
Visitors: 4,154The theme of the Forum, hosted by Sun Media Group, was building an inclusive society and developing partnerships between groups and individuals. GLOBAL leaders-from business, charities and the cultural, educational, media, political and financial sectors, talked about how men and women could become true partners. They also discussed ways of promoting individual growth and […]
Visitors: 4,124Apia, 27 March 2017 About 30 people from Tokelau met in Apia this weekend, to participate in a workshop about ocean acidification. It is part of an international project whereby Tokelau has been selected as a pilot global monitoring site for the health of our oceans, and how this affects coral reef ecosystems. The […]
Visitors: 48627 March 2017 Hainan, China: Deputy Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Andie Fong Toy, addressed the prestigious Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, China, on international and regional cooperation for the sustainable development of our ocean and its resources. “The ocean is integral to our culture and our livelihoods. It has shaped […]
Visitors: 588The name of Confucian Temple and Imperial Academy Museum is from the two ancient architectural complexes in Beijing Confucian Temple & Imperial Academy located in the north of Chengzong Tamerlane Dade 6th year (AD 1302), the construction of a temple on this site was started and in Yuan Dade 10th year (AD 1306)the temple […]
Visitors: 642Balayogi Venkataraman [themify_hr color=”red”] Economics and politics –the holons in social engineering. In the past century three major areas have influenced and impacted to a great extent in the field of social engineering. They have been history, economics and politics along with all their theories, ideologies, ideas, and tall claims and counter claims; credible achievements […]
Visitors: 665Rene Wadlow is the President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation on and problem-solving in economic and social issues. [themify_hr color=’red’] On Friday 24 March 2017, the 47-member UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution without a […]
Visitors: 473PFF, The Pacific Freedom Forum The Pacific Freedom Forum is a regional and global online network of Pacific media colleagues, with the specific intent of raising awareness and advocacy of the right of Pacific people to enjoy freedom of expression and be served by a free and independent media. We believe in the critical and […]
Visitors: 462The Cold War ended by an agreement that the USSR leaves Eastern Europe and the USA does not enter the area. What the USA did is treason, like Sykes-Picot. NATO expanded from 16 to 28: Bill Clinton added Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary; George W. Bush the Baltic Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria; Obama […]
Visitors: 498[themify_hr color=”red”] The Melanesian Indigenous Land Defense Alliance (MILDA) is alarmed that land registration is again being pushed by the World Bank, this time through an environmental project managed by the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) within Melanesia. The project is asking for the mapping of customary land and resources as part […]
Visitors: 454Irfan Engineer Director, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism [themify_hr color=”red”] In a surprise development, the Supreme Court on 21st March 2017 urged the rival parties in the Ram Janamabhoomi – Babri Masjid (RJBM) case to negotiate and resolve the dispute in a spirit of give and take. The Chief Justice of India […]
Visitors: 510Rosa Dalmiglio was born in Garlasco, Italy. She is a member of the China Council Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe (special art, culture and humanity), which touches the hearts of all people and portrays the strong willpower so encouraging to 60 million Chinese disabled persons. Ms. Dalmiglio is Intermediary Agent of CICE, Centre International […]
Visitors: 678Baher Kamal Egyptian-born, Spanish-national secular journalist. He is founder and publisher of Human Wrongs Watch. Kamal is a pro-peace, non-violence, human rights, coexistence defender, with more than 45 years of professional experience. [themify_hr color=’red’] During the final exams of Spanish official high school of journalists, a student was asked by the panel of professors-examiners: If scientists […]
Visitors: 676Dr. Gary G. Kohls, MD is a retired physician who practiced holistic, non-drug, mental health care for the last decade of his forty year family practice career. He is a contributor to and an endorser of the efforts of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and was a member of MindFreedom International, the International […]
Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder, CEO, and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityThe distinctions :Rejuvenation of four rivers, 250 large water harvesting structures (JOHAD/जोहड़) in more than 100 villages, 25,000 families, 200,000 people and 60 million dollars annual economy in ten years period (2006 to 2016).200 drinking water ponds (KUND/कुंड), most […]
Visitors: 379[themify_hr color=”red”] Peace Channel organised a day programme for Teachers of Dimapur District on Excel and enhance the profession as a teachers. The main objective of the program was to enhance and empower the teachers to be competent in their profession. Dr. Fr. T. C Joseph, Principal of B.Ed. College Dimapur, address the teachers […]
