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Posted On: Dec 02, 2009
Book Forum Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m. Featuring the author, Carlos Alberto Montaner; with comments by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow, Independent Institute. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato InstituteAbout the event - Latin America, though poor, is a part of the West. The institutions, pastimes, intellectual history, languages, and belief systems of the vast majority of Latin Americans are ...
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Posted On: Nov 05, 2009
The Global Fairness Initiative Job Title: Program Manager Location: Washington D.C. Position Description: The Global Fairness Initiative (GFI), an International non-profit based in Washington DC is currently recruiting for the position of Program Manager for the Washington D.C. office. Designed as a small NGO with a broad impact at the local and international level, the Global Fairness Initiative was founded on the premise that economic globalization must work to improve t...
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Posted On: Nov 05, 2009
About Publish What You Pay:The United States Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition promotes transparency in the extractive industries to ensure that oil, gas and mineral wealth contributes to development and poverty alleviation. PWYP US is a coalition of nearly thirty human rights, development, environmental and faith-based organizations.PWYP US is part of a global coalition of over 350 NGOs in 50 countries promoting the public disclosure of revenues, contracts, and other financial transacti...
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Posted On: Aug 04, 2009
Contact: Michael Stulman, michael.stulman@africaaction.org; 202-546-7961"This letter, endorsed by 18 organizations and 15 independent analyst, urge a new U.S. engagement with Africa. The letter takes much of the rhetoric of President's Obama's Ghana speech and couples it with specific policy prescriptions targeting the U.S. State Department upon the beginning of Secretary Clinton's trip to Africa (August 5-14)..."Source:
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Posted On: Jul 29, 2009
Institute for Policy Studies Communications DirectorDescription: The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive multi-issue think tank in Washington, D.C., seeks a Communications Director to join our growing communications department. The Communications Director will direct and implement communications strategy to support the Institute's mission through tactics that include strategic planning, new media, messaging, and other innovative solutions. The Communications Director reports to the E...
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Posted On: Jul 16, 2009
July 16, 2009By John Prendergast and Noel AtamaThe world’s deadliest war and most pronounced use of rape as a weapon continue to rage in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. For 13 years, the people of eastern Congo have been ensnared in a tangled web of armed groups—from foreign rebels to the Congo’s own army—who prey on Congolese civilians and, with collaboration from governments and multinational corporations, strip the country of its immense natural wealth. This conflict ...
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Posted On: Jun 17, 2009
From Brookings: "In an article, 'Strengthening America's Global Development Partnerships: A Policy Blueprint for Better Collaboration Between the U.S. Government, Business and Civil Society,' Brookings scholars Jane Nelson and Noam Unger offer recommendations on how the U.S. government can better position itself within the 21st century global development landscape."
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Posted On: Jun 16, 2009
By Doug BandowThe United Nations and human rights do not belong in the same sentence. Last Wednesday the UN Human Rights Council praised Cuba's human rights achievements. The Council was far more concerned about the U.S. embargo against Cuba than the Cuban government's brutality towards its own people.The UN long has claimed to represent the greatest aspirations of humanity, running back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was approved more than six decades ago. But the UN's C...
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Posted On: May 20, 2009
May 18, 2009RELEASE: Enough Launches “Come Clean 4 Congo” Video ContestLeverages YouTube's New Video for Change Program to Raise Awareness OnlineWASHINGTON, D.C., and SAN BRUNO, CA – Enough, the anti-crimes against humanity project at the Center for American Progress, is joining with YouTube™ today in announcing the launch of the Come Clean 4 Congo video contest, which empowers individuals to create compelling messages that highlight the link between “conflict minerals” used in ...
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Posted On: May 12, 2009
About That Vision Thing...Posted by Sallie JamesDoes the world need a "shared vision on food and agricultural trade policy"? So says World Trade Organization Director General Pascal Lamy:Let me start by saying that food and agricultural trade policy does not operate in a vacuum. In other words, no matter how sophisticated our trade policies may be, if domestic policies do not themselves incentivize agriculture, and internalize negative social and environmental externalities, then we will alwa...
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Posted On: May 08, 2009
Op-ed by John Norris, in The GuardianMillions of people have died in eastern Congo, in what is the world's deadliest conflict since the second world war. Ending the Democratic Republic of the Congo's multiple conflicts is the single most important task in improving the lives of Congolese, making more lasting development possible and giving people a say in their own affairs. Trying to talk about economic development in eastern Congo without acknowledging this elephant in the room just doesn't ...
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Posted On: May 05, 2009
The Connect U.S. Fund is seeking a leader committed to our vision of responsible U.S. global engagement and the belief that the whole of NGO advocacy in support of this goal must be greater than the sum of its parts. The Connect U.S. Fund is a foundation/NGO initiative that promotes responsible U.S. global engagement in an increasingly interdependent world through grantmaking and operations that advance critical foreign policy objectives and support an effective, collaborative community of in...
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Posted On: Apr 30, 2009
Christian Science Monitor op-ed by Sheryl Crow and John Prendergast New York and Los Angeles - Your cellphone purchases might be fueling the world's worst sexual violence.The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a place most of us will never go, and the war there is affecting people most of us will never meet. But the link between our demand for electronic products and mass human suffering is incredibly direct.It is stunning that we as consumers have been completely unaware of the complex cha...
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Posted On: Apr 28, 2009
The majority of Americans (61 percent) oppose farm subsidies for large farming businesses, a new poll from World Public Opinion finds. While a higher percent (77) favor subsidies to small farmers in principle, only 37 percent of respondents would give the subsidies annually; 40 percent would grant them only in bad years. Eighty percent of current American farm subsidies go to farms that are over 500 acres.Opposition to subsidies for large farms was consistent regardless of partisan affiliatio...
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Posted On: Apr 27, 2009
It is difficult to evaluate an administration after only 100 days. George W. Bush, who ended his two terms with one of the lowest grades of any U.S. president, received quite positive evaluations after his first three months in office. The Obama team is still bringing people on board and identifying its priorities. Still, the crises facing the United States and the world require immediate and comprehensive action. And, as no less an authority as Aristotle once put it, well begun is half done....
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Posted On: Apr 24, 2009
IntroductionThe Enough Project is sounding the alarm. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, scene of the deadliest conflict since World War II, remains the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman or a girl—in significant part because of the international demand for electronic products that requires minerals found in the eastern Congo. While eastern Congo is a complex crisis—fueled by tensions over land, rights, identity, regional power struggles, and the fundamental weaknesses o...
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Posted On: Apr 06, 2009
This report from Oxfam International "provides an independent assessment of the G20 process and the three documents released on the day of the summit."
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Posted On: Mar 19, 2009
by Daniel IkensonThe World Bank issued a press release on Tuesday announcing the results of a study published March 2, which concludes that 17 of the 20 so-called G-20 countries have invoked at least some protectionist measures since pledging last November to avoid protectionism for at least one year.Of course the Washington Post-which now specializes in printing run-of-the-mill stories about trade that rarely come close to justifying the sensational headlines, provocative subheads, or grippi...
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Posted On: Mar 10, 2009
Gender Action links which are meant to provide resources and information on various issues that have gender impacts. Future Links will address topics like Gender, International Finance, and the food crisis, indigenous rights, debt, accountability and extractive industries.Gender, IFIs and Extractive IndustriesGender, International Finance, and Climate Change
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Posted On: Mar 03, 2009
Like many of our community members, the Connect U.S. Fund has been looking over the horizon at some important international meetings and events for 2009 and beyond. To keep track, we have started compiling as many as we can find in our new resource, The Datebook.This spreadsheet can be sorted by date, organization, or issue area to help community members find out what is going on in a variety of organizations and bodies that shape how the United States engages with the world. We will be updat...