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Music against Poverty is a competition aimed at involving young people in the fight against worldwide poverty through concrete actions. Europeans between15-25 years old, willing to make a difference, are asked to submit their own songs on subjects related to development and, notably, on the eight Millennium Development Goals. Deadline is September 30.

Music against Poverty Contest is an initiative launched in July by the EC Directorate-General EuropeAid to raise awareness among young Europeans about the issue of development cooperation and the important role played by Read more »

Translated by Marcella Oliviero from http://palletecofriendly.blogspot.com/2010/06/wangari-maathai-una-donna-che-ha.html

Picture courtesy: https://environmentalheroes.pbworks.com/w/page/19132731/Wangari-Maathai

She is the first African woman in the world to receive the Nobel prize for peace in 2004. Wangari and her Green Belt Movement have planted 40 billion trees in several African nations like Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ugunda, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Kenya. She didn't planted firs or eucalyptus that have been imported by European and Australian people, but native plants like

November 19th is World Toilet Day.

Picture courtesy World Toilet Day.

In September  2000 the United Nations adopted the Millenium Development Goals (MDG's), which were supposed to set clear goals for many development issues throughout the world. It also set time frames to reach

Okay we all know the facts; 70% of the Earth is covered by water; 97% of that is saltwater and freshwater makes up less than 1%. It’s vital to ecosystems; rivers and lakes provide habitat for fish and other aquatic species; wetlands help filter pollutants and nutrients and mitigate flooding.

Water can also influence climate; large lakes can

A guest post by Simon Phillips. For more by Simon visit http://elusiveworld.org/

TIJUANA, Mexico: A family of six migrant workers huddle together in a makeshift shack, one of thousands which cling to the harsh desert, and existence itself, within a stone’s throw of their employers: Korean factories. Samsung Corp. and Hyundai Corp. each employ over a thousand Mexican workers in their “maquiladoras’’ or foreign-owned factories, which line the U.S.-Mexico border.

In these factories people work long, gruelling shifts for a wage less than $2 an hour. It is these workers who produce Samsung’s new MP3 players and plasma-screen TVs, which people in richer parts of the world enjoy in relative comfort. The low wages earned in the factories do not go far and as the companies do not provide a welfare service for their employees, or pay any local taxes, overwhelming housing and health problems exist here. Read more »

Music against poverty competition aims at involving young people in the fight against worldwide poverty through concrete actions.

Pictures of children in third world countries... An efficient way to get aware that their way of living is definitely not ours... Unfortunately.

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You have all heard about these city management games, the Sim City-like, where you embody a mayor, and are in charge of the development of housing, transports, public service, and so on... Your first concern is always your inhabitants' welfare.

Actually, this has been a great source of inspiration for Amnesty International...