Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative

Climate - Former Irish President Mary Robinson turns to climate change. euronews : Independent, international news from a European standpoint, including politics, diplomacy and all the breaking news

The rapid march of climate change up the global agenda has prompted a new, and often poignant, conversation between the generations.

Content Management System

"Citizens and development" is the general theme on which the European Development Days will focus this year. This event, that will take place in Stockholm (Sweden) from 22-24 October, will address the consequences of the recession and global warming on the world's poorest countries.

I’ve just returned from a week long visit to four African countries where it was encouraging to see positive developments across a number of key issues - good governance, the right to health, climate justice and women’s leadership - all of which relate to our work at Realizing Rights.

The Women Leaders Intercultural Forum of Realizing Rights supported Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Tarja Halonen of Finland in co-convening an event on "Peace and Security through ...

On September 21st, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative co-organized a major event - Jobs Justice Climate - which brought together leading labor, environmental, student, and community activists to encourage world leaders to take decisive action on global warming.

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - African farmers said on Monday floods and droughts expected to worsen with climate change have already brought poor harvests, and women workers are turning to prostitution and falling

The €3 million 100-bed facility is expected to transform lives – many of whom are HIV positive, writes CHARLIE TAYLOR

FORMER PRESIDENT Mary Robinson promised yesterday to push the needs of Africans affected by global warming to the fore at forthcoming climate change negotiations after hearing accounts of how the continent was being devastated by changing weather patterns.

In advance of the World Health Summit, to be held in Berlin on Oct 14—18, this week's issue of The Lancet features a piece contributed by Mary Robinson: "Realizing the human right to health".

Dr Mary Robinson is our next guest in the 'Creative Thinking' series and we will hear how she nominates the key challenges facing our global village as we enter the 21st century, and whether she's shifted her thinking in the light of some of the bigger developments in our world of late.

Dialogues with Nobel Laureates, live from the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (UBC).