Sustainable development blog : ecology and humanitarian aid

Photo: Young adolescents in civilian clothing move away from the arms they used when they were soldiers after evacuation from a combat zone in Sudan.

This is still happening today.  Read more »

Female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), female circumcision, or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), is defined by the World Health Organisation as "all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other Read more »

Picture from World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Translated from the Italian (http://www.iltaccoditalia.info/sito/index-a.asp?id=12612) by Marcella Oliviero

October 10, 2010 was the eighth World Day Against the Death Penalty. “Since 2003, abolitionists have taken actions all over the world every 10 October to raise awareness and opposition to the death penalty,” says the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, organisers of Read more »

Translated from Kiva, le microcrédit solidaire by Valerie Kwan.

Today, just under three billion women and men live on less than two dollars a day. More than a billion people go hungry every day, a deplorable record reached in 2009 according to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Nearly all of the world's