COP20: Day 5 – Storm on the water
As Friday’s sun rose over the vast Pacific ocean to light up the Western shores of Lima, a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) put the state of the ongoing international climate negotiations in a new...
WATCH: The Girl Who Demanded School
When she was 12, Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: she would undergo the Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high school. If she had run away Ntaiya’s father would have been s...
Self-made Guerrillera Tanja Nijmeijer; the face of FARC?
Name: Tanja Nijmeijer Pseudonym: Eillen Nickname: Alexandra Date of Birth: 3 February 1978 Place of Birth: Denekamp, The Netherlands Nationality: Dutch Occupation: Guerillera Tanja Nijmeijer joins the peace talks ...
Daily News Roundup – 1 August 2012
Europe Scheme launches in UK to prompt lending The Funding for Lending initiative, a new scheme to prompt banks and other lenders to make more money available to homeowners and businesses, has come into operation in th...
What’s The Modi Operandi? Potential Indo-Pakistan Relations After The Election
Two related events will come to dominate Indian politics in the coming general election year, and both lead to the same questions about India’s relationship with her northern neighbour and sister state, Pakistan. On February ...
WATCH: The world’s gender gaps in 2013
The 2013 World gender gap index, produced by the World Economic Forum, reveals gender inequalities across the world. Out of 136 countries Iceland has received the highest ranking in terms of having the smallest gender gap, fol...
