Dec 2, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Health & Human Security, Knowledge Networks
The Global Working Group to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence is a coalition of 40 agencies including governments, NGOs, civil society activists and researchers, a GSN, that advocates for policy changes, shares tools and knowledge, and promotes generation of...
Nov 2, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Policy Networks
Hidden in the chaos of the US presidential vote are climate change issues, and public utility legislation, that have potentially long-reaching implications. National Geographic has released several new documentary pieces that demonstrate that they have held their...
Jun 21, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Health & Human Security
The 2011 revolution that began in Tunisia reverberates with decades of abuses and repression that women had suffered under the 30 year presidency of Habib Bourguiba and that continued and were amplified under the presidency of Ben Ali before he was overthrown in the...
Aug 12, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Today is “World Elephant Day,” a day that celebrates the special beauty of the big animals, but also underlines the issues of poaching and trafficking of these remarkable animals and other wildlife being victimized by the illegal wildlife and ivory trade....
Jul 4, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, At Work, Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Watchdog Networks
Joan Bigham EdD, Executive Director, Global Solution Networks The Sierra Club continues to play multiple roles in planet stewardship as both an advocacy network and when necessary a full fledged watchdog. Recently, they succeeded in bringing Lumber Liquidators to...
Mar 16, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
In adventures he chronicles on his Facebook page, Existe Água em SP (“There is Water in SP”), the river hunter Adriano Sampaio is a tireless urban expeditionist, walking the city in search of lost rivers and springs, and posting a steady stream of videos to his page....
