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| National Geographic - UN Rates Best, Worst Countries. Find out which countries took top honors in the UN’s new list of the most desirable countries to live in, see how the U.S. fared, and learn which places need the most improvement. |
Earth Hour US - Earth Hour 2008
Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to ...Be part of making Earth Hour 2008 a huge, global success by telling your friends and family. Remember, every single light makes a statement and makes a ... In 2008, 24 global cities will participate in Earth Hour at 8pm on March 29. Earth Hour is the highlight of a major campaign to encourage businesses, |
| Superlife is an unprecedented paradigm shift, the key trend of our time. If we catch its surge, rather than letting it swamp us, it can carry us to a hyper-human world of greatly expanded powers and possibilities.
Thanks to scientific and social advances, we are fast evolving into a whole new self-modified species. Those of us who get with this meta-trend can look forward to six key developments. There's a big countertrend, of course. It involves super pollution, super conflict, and more. The two big trends, very positive and very negative, appear locked in mortal combat. Only one can win. |
| GLOBAL: Tomorrow's Crises Today: The Humanitarian Impact of Urbanisation - Overview
At present, 3.3 billion people live in urban centres across the globe. By 2030 this number is predicted to reach five billion, with 95 percent of this growth in developing countries. Over the next three decades, Asia’s urban population will double from 1.36 billion to 2.64 billion, Africa’s city dwellers will more than double from 294 million to 742 million, while Latin America and the Caribbean will see a slower rise from about 400 million to 600 million, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
While megacities appear more frequently in headlines and on development agendas, overall growth in urban centres of 10 million or more inhabitants is expected to level out. Instead, over the next 10 years, cities of less than 500,000 will account for half of all urban growth. |
The Microcredit Summit Campaign- Reaching 100 million Poorest... The latest on reaching 100 million of the world's poorest people with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2005.
www.microcreditsummit.org/ |
PewResearch Center- Information in the Public Interest, http://pewresearch.org/social/ |
Communities World
CommunitiesWorld.com is a site about online communities, virtual communities and social networking. |
Protecting the Human Rights of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and... Racism in host countries: the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers Not only do refugees and asylum seekers flee situations of racial and ethnic ...
www.hrw.org/campaigns/race/refugee.htm |
IFTF's Future Now is a group weblog, founded by Institute research director Alex ... John Palfrey » Blog Archive » How Digital Natives Experience News ... future.iftf.org/ |
Institute for the Future| Research Programs| Ten-Year Forecast...seemingly unconnected trends to provide logical and coherent views about how the decade ... Copyright© 2006, Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. www.iftf.org/research/business.html |
Community Mobilization : Institutional Futurists , Trend Watchers- As an Institutional Futurist and Trend watcher I feel that there is a great synergy for the two. It is my opinion that scenarios should be built upon the ... como.typepad.com/community_mobilization/2006/02/institutional_f.html |
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Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue about the Future with Non Government...No single driver or trend will dominate the global future in 2015. ... Conflicts over the social contract or immigration policies in major European states ... www.cia.gov/cia/reports/globaltrends2015/index.html |
| Trends in Developing Economies... global and regional economic trends and their implications for the future prospects of ...Social Indicators of Development; World Development Reports ... www.ciesin.org/IC/wbank/tde-home.html |
| 10 Media trends to Watch| Benton Foundation-1) Technology is at the root of many current trends in the media landscape, ... And it's likely to be something that will continue in the future. ... www.benton.org/index.php?q=node/366 |
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SSRN-Labor Force Trends and future Social Security Benefits by... David Pattison. papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=390644 |
Institute for Research on Poverty-information about the institute, explanations of poverty measures, research, and links. One of two national poverty research centers designated by the US ... www.irp.wisc.edu/ |
AIDS threatens world peace says UN: AIDS-MSNBC.com-the AIDS epidemic is a threat to world peace like terrorism, ... Millions of orphans, children with no future -- it’s enough that there is a warlord who ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4779877/ |
Current and Future Trends of the Human Rights Agenda-Current and future trends of the human rights' agenda - Speech by Chris Patten. ... of the Child, the argument that human rights are a “western construct”, ...
www.eu.int/comm/external_relations/news/patten/sp03_364.htm |
USCCB - (MRS)- Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Victims of Human...US government policies toward refugees, asylum seekers, and trafficking ... welcoming refugees, we are concerned with recent trends which indicate that the ... www.usccb.org/mrs/talkmf.shtml |
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International Labour Organization-ILO Web Site, ILO: International Labour Organization - The International Labour Organization
is the UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and ...
www.ilo.org/ |
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| AllRefer.com- India- Cities as Centers -Future Trenda|Indian... In 1995, the All India Democratic Women's Association and other groups ...Future Trends. By the twenty-first century, India's population will be more than ...
reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/india/india95.html |
| Cloning in Focus- Consider some important questions in the debate over cloning technologies. ... Links to current news and in-depth information about cloning. ... gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/cloning/ |
| Special Focus on Designer Babies- The Center for the Study of... A nonprofit educational and research organization based in Washington, DC that studies the social effects of technology. www.tecsoc.org/biotech/focusbabies.htm |
| GEO-1: Executive Summary: Looking to the Future- Preliminary results from the model analyses confirm trends revealed by the ... In such a scenario, sharp regional differences will remain and poverty will ...
www.unep.org/GEO/geo1/exsum/ex5.htm |
| Europe: Migrant workers denied fundamental human rights- news.amnesty... a debate on what kind of common migration policy the EU should develop. ... Extricating migrant workers in Europe from the precarious situations in ... news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR010052005 |
| Gène éthique- Informational and Analytical Bioethical site, is an interactive site that studies and exposes all matters related to bioethics. http://www.genethique.org/en.htm |
| Pew Research Center: Information in the Public Interest. Project sites... people-press.org, stateline.org, pewinternet.org, pewforum.org, pewhispanic.org ...
pewresearch.org/ |
| HIV and AIDS in India - Information about HIV/AIDS in India: the early years, number of people affected by HIV/AIDS, the situation in different states, the groups most affected by ... www.avert.org/aidsindia.htm |
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