Global Health

The Biggest Arms Deal in U.S. History, Obama-Approved

Sixty billion dollars. Anyone who secures a deal for that much would go down in business hall of fame. But anyone who gets that much for selling weapons is an arms dealing warmonger of historic significance, worse than a gang member who sells another...

Published Mon, Sep 13 2010 3:53 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Are We Headed Toward Another Food Crisis?

Did you notice any difference in your grocery bills between July and August? My guess is, probably not. But our neighbors in the developing world certainly did. In the month of August, food prices rose by five percent globally . Higher prices in places...

Published Mon, Sep 13 2010 2:08 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

PowerPointing Our Way Through the Third World

A friend of mine was recently turned down for a job because he wasn't familiar enough with PowerPoint. Not the software itself, he was told, but the "PowerPoint way of thinking." I didn't know there was such a thing, or how marketable...

Published Mon, Sep 13 2010 9:27 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Separatism, Sovereignty and Peace: A Different Path to Global Economic Recovery

The proverb "history repeats itself" usually refers to separate, thematically related events spanning decades or centuries. But in the recent cases of peace proposals by two violent separatist groups being rejected outright by the countries...

Published Sun, Sep 12 2010 6:32 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Obama Administration Ramping Up Sudan Efforts (Or So It Seems)

In an important speech on foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton only spent a few minutes on U.S. policy toward Sudan (thanks to Travis Atkins, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who...

Published Sat, Sep 11 2010 6:33 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

The U.S. Open Is About More Than Just Tennis ... It's About Peace

This year, the U.S. Open is about more than just tennis -- it's also about peace. When Rohan Bopanna from India and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi from Pakistan teamed up for the men’s doubles semi-final at the U.S. Open on Thursday, they were playing to do...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 3:05 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Millennium Development Goal #8: A Global Partnership for Development

In anticipation of this month’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit , we at Change.org have been analyzing where we stand as a global development community in achieving the goals by 2015. For the last several days, Change.org writers have brought...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 1:48 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Millennium Development Goal #7: Too Much to Do, Too Little Reward?

In many ways, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) #7 on environmental sustainability is the most complex to implement and the most difficult to motivate change in. Though the headline brings to mind thoughts of climate change and deforestation, MDG 7 actually...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 8:45 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Sen. Barbara Boxer's Moment to Fight Youth Crime and Violence

Joining 16 other sponsors, nine-term California senator, Sen. Barbara Boxer , vowed in person to give her support for S.435 , a piece of legislation better known as the Youth PROMISE Act . This bill is bipartisan legislation intended to improve the safety...

Published Fri, Sep 10 2010 6:21 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Millennium Development Goal #6: Stemming the Spread of AIDS and Giving Everyone Access to Treatment

When United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) “ambitious but feasible,” I wonder if he had recently looked at MDG 6 . It had been a while since I dove into the specifics of that goal, which deals with...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 2:11 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Remembering to Love Thy Neighbor on September 11

When I first heard the news about “Reverend” Terry Jones’ plans to host an “International Burn a Koran Day” on September 11, I felt sick to my stomach. His plan is to host this event at his tiny church of only 50 parishioners on the outskirts of Gainesville...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 12:29 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

A Quasi-Success Story: Maternal and Child Health Millennium Development Goals

Is it better to set achievable goals or ambitious ones? The frequent critique of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is that they provide an ambitious destination with very little by way of roadmap or funding. This is the equivalent of sending someone...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2010 6:00 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Broadband Internet: The Newest Human Right?

According to Dr. Hamadoun Toure, secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), broadband internet is the key to all sorts of development problems. In fact, he goes as far as to tell the BBC that access to information via the internet...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 4:14 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Reading the Minds of Terrorists (And Yours), Literally

This is not science fiction, it's science reality. New technology being developed at top-ranked Northwestern University just north of Chicago can get us into the minds of terrorists, read them and even know how, when and where their next attacks will...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 10:31 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Peace = Future: The Math Is Easy

Each year, the International Day of Peace is marked on September 21. Established in 1981, the Day of Peace is a global call for non-violence in which the entire UN system, along with individuals, groups and organizations from around the world, engage...

Published Wed, Sep 08 2010 6:26 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

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