Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Vietnam coffee - A better future is percolating for Vietnam's coffee

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Ripe coffee cherries ready for picking on a Rainforest Alliance certified farm in Vietnam/Veronique Mistiaen I recently went to the c...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Measuring women's empowerment

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--> Rina Begum, who participated in one of the SHOUHARDO women's empowerment programs in Bangladesh. Once prohibited from l...
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Monday, 5 March 2012

Join Women on the Bridge - International Women's Day

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Only a few days until International Women’s Day on Thursday 8 th March…  And how better to celebrate that bright day than by joinin...
Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Marie Colvin’s murder – Journalists as “enemies of the state”

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--> Veteran war reporter Marie Colvin was killed last week in the besieged city of Homs probably because she was a journali...
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Monday, 20 February 2012

Somali women want a voice at London Somalia Conference

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-->  As world leaders meet in London tomorrow to decide Somalia’s future , Somali women living in the UK are call...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

Bust on the US-Mexican border - the end of a dream

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Mark Abel My friend, composer Mark Abel from San Diego (my former editor at the San Francisco Chronicle ), witnessed a bust by ...
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Thursday, 2 February 2012

Anti-slavery coin - first-ever coin with a social conscience

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Anti-slavery prototype coin A silver coin with the message "Break the Chains of Bondage" will be launched at the World Money...