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Jennifer Hollett: What the Girls Have to Say

2012-05-25T15:08:37Z

Considering the endless list of problems the world faces today, from the economy to the environment, we could really use some new voices, fresh ideas and diverse perspectives.

Read more: Women's Rights, Women's Equality, Women Leadership, G(irls)20 2012, Women World Leaders, Female Leaders, G(irls)20, Female World Leaders, g20, Women Leaders, G20 Women, Impact News

David Joslyn: G(irls)20 Summit: Moving the Debate on Women in Agriculture From Washington to Mexico City

2012-05-24T11:54:45Z

Finally, it seems that everyone concerned about global food security is talking about the role of women in growing, preparing, and marketing the world's food.

Read more: Food Women, Hunger Women World, Global Motherhood, Global Food Security, G20 Summit, g20 Summit Women, Impact News

Sharan Burrow: It's Not the Economy, Stupid... It's Employment

2012-05-16T09:13:01Z

Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation. No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment.

Read more: Jobs, Ituc, Labor Unions, g20, American Unemployment, Unemployment, No Jobs, g20-Countries, Eurozone Crisis, Europe Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, College Graduates, World News

Tomoko Kaida: The Importance of the Private Sector to the Empowerment of Girls and Women: Observing (From) Japan

2012-05-16T17:25:43Z

It is no secret that Japanese society is "burdened" by gender-based discrimination and lack of adequate social recognition of girls and women.

Read more: Girls, Women and Girls, G20 Summit, Japan, girls20 Summit Japan, girls20 Summit Mexico, Women and Girls Empowerment, girls20-Summit, Impact News

Sally Dimachki: G(irls)20 Summit: Change, One Girl at a Time

2012-05-11T12:20:46Z

Based on the G20 model, the G(irls)20 Summit brings together 21 girls from all over the world to discuss and come up with solutions for these different existing issues.

Read more: Girls, Leadership, Women, girls20-Summit, Young Girls, G20 Summit, Education, Impact News

Robert Koehler: The Moral Arc of the Universe

2012-05-10T16:27:14Z

The city of Chicago and the federal government will be putting on a security extravaganza later this month in part to protect NATO delegates, representing the most powerful military force on the planet, from nonviolent protesters who want to see an end to war.

Read more: US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, Drones, Nato, Protest, Afghanistan War, Chicago, G20 Summit, g20, G20 Protests, Chicago News

Jake Schmidt: The World Is Watching: Will G20 Countries Lead This June at the Earth Summit?

2012-05-09T22:03:57Z

NRDC, with Stakeholder Forum and Road to Rio+20, recently launched the Earth Summit Watch -- a country-by-country progress tracker of the ambition (or lack thereof) of preparations before we all meet in Rio.

Read more: Renewable Energy, Rio+20, rioplus20, g20, Global Warming, Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Earth Summit 2012, Video, Green News

Hadassah At 100: Honoring America's Jewish Women

2012-05-06T21:00:06Z

By Marcie Natan
Hadassah National President

In 2004, Belle Simon, who lived in New York at the time, needed a kidney transplant. A longtime membe...

Read more: Hadassah, American Judaism, Judaism, Jewish Women, Gender-and-Religion, Zionism, Slideexpand, G-20, Religion News

Vera Campanelli: Employed Women Are The Solution

2012-05-05T17:56:56Z

Being a woman is a great opportunity but also a responsibility, because our society is so far from being equal and united. Great changes are the result of little actions by each person. What you are waiting for?

Read more: Women's Empowerment, G(irls)20 Summit, G20 Summit 2012, G20 Summit, G(irls)20 Summit 2012, Female Leaders, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Women in Business, Female Empowerment, Women in Workforce, Women Leaders, g20, Home News

Magdaly Santillanez: The G(irls)20 Summit: A Girl, Mexico and the Presidency of the G20

2012-05-03T15:46:31Z

Ordinary people, like you or me, can make a change, but in order to do so, civil society needs to be more aware, united, and coordinated so that they can affect our communities in the most effect way until we understand that the change must come from governments and us.

Read more: G(irls)20 Summit, G(irls)20 Summit 2012, Women's Issues, Global Women's Issues, Mexico, Social Issues, G-20, National Congress of Mexico, Impact News

Claire Charness: G(irls)20 Summit-Empowering Girls and Women Is Key to Economic Growth

2012-05-02T17:28:48Z

If you help a young girl or woman find the confidence and the belief in her, she will break barriers in the future, both in an economic and political environment and in all areas of her life.

Read more: G(irls)20 Summit, Female Leadership, Youth Leadership, Women's Issues, g20, Global Women's Issues, Canada, Impact News

Farah Mohamed: The G(irls)20 Summit Meets the G20 Summit, Once Again

2012-05-02T11:35:42Z

Launched in 2010, the G(irls)20 Summit highlights ways in which girls and women, powered by ideas and courage and are not held back by borders, can play a leading role in global economic development and progress.

Read more: Women's Empowerment, Women Leadership, G(irls)20 Summit, Female Leadership, Clinton Global Initiative, g20, g20 Leaders, Write With a Smile, Nike Foundation, g20 Leaders' Summit, Women Leaders, Impact News

Deborah James: Victory at UNCTAD XIII

2012-04-29T12:17:24Z

After a week of intense negotiations, civil society groups welcomed a rare victory on Thursday in the final Declaration of the UNCTAD XIII conference in Doha, Qatar.

Read more: Global Financial Crisis, United Nations Trade and Development, Unctad Xiii Conference, Global Economy, Unctad, Unctad Final Declaration, Unctad Conference Qatar, g20, Global Economic Crisis, Unctad Xiii Conference 2012, World News

Kolleen Bouchane: Malaria: Less Investment = More Suffering, More Death

2012-04-27T11:56:55Z

A new study published this week makes something clear: Providing funding to fight malaria makes malaria go away. Cutting funding for malaria makes malaria come back.

Read more: Malaria, G20 Summit, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, g20, World Malaria Day, TB and Malaria, Malaria Treatment, Impact News

José Viñals: Global Financial Stability: What's Still to Be Done?

2012-04-23T18:52:13Z

The quest for lasting financial stability is still fraught with risks. The latest Global Financial Stability Report has two key messages: policy actions have brought gains to global financial stability since our September report; but current policy efforts are not enough to achieve lasting stability.

Read more: Competitiveness, Gfsr, Government Bonds, g20, European Central Bank, Fiscal Policy, Greece, FInancial Markets, Assets, Banks, Financial Crisis, Imf, Europe, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Eurozone Debt, Business News

Sharan Burrow: Grimm Pickings: The Real Economic Fairy Tales

2012-04-19T10:23:09Z

The idea that we can build a strong economy while improving our environment is seen as pure fantasy. Of course, the real fiction lies in thinking you can ignore environmental impacts and carry on with slash and burn economics forever.

Read more: Green Jobs, Brazil, Climate Change, Africa, Environment, Rio+20, Asia, Europe, Green Economy, g20, Earth Summit, Green News

Professor Sir Gordon Conway: Growth With Resilience: An Opportunity for African Agriculture

2012-03-21T15:03:00Z

Many African countries are growing fast. African GDP is growing at about 6% per year and over the past decade, 6 of the world's 10 fastest grow¬ing countries were African. But this growth remains fragile.

Read more: G20 Summit, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Economic Development, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Agribusiness, Growth, g20, Business News

Eric Farnsworth: The Latin American Spring

2012-03-21T11:54:23Z

The pope's visit to Mexico and Cuba beginning Friday will kick off a period of intensive focus on Latin America. As the spotlight shines on the region, it will illuminate both the dramatic progress that has been made, as well as the progress that remains to be made.

Read more: G20 Summit, Summit of the Americas, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Brazil United States, US Mexico Policy, Pope Visit Mexico, World News

Robert Hormats: Whales, Conservation & Eco-Tourism - Report From the G-20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Mexico

2012-03-06T12:16:04Z

Animals -- marine or otherwise -- do not confine themselves to national boundaries. It's vital that all governments take ownership and pride in their biodiversity and ecosystems, and live up to their responsibilities both moral and legal.

Read more: Conservation, International Whaling Commission, Whales, g20, Ecotourism, Gray Whales, Commercial Whaling, Whaling, World News

There's A Threat To The Global Economy 'Right In Front Of Us'

2012-02-24T12:32:00Z

MEXICO CITY, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund flagged higher oil prices as a rising threat to the global economy on Friday, urging...

Read more: European Debt Crisis, David Lipton, Video, Policymakers, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Strait of Hormuz, Reuters, Oil Prices, Oil, European Union, International Monetary Fund, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Iraq, g20, Oecd, Business News

S&P Warns It May Cut 'Highly Rated' G20 Countries On Healthcare Spending

2012-01-31T02:35:00Z

* Ratings of some developed nations at risk due to rising welfare costs * Rapidly ageing populations mean more healthcare costs in fu...

Read more: European Debt Crisis, G20 Summit, Video, Health Care Spending, Standard and Poor's, Reuters, Standard-and-Poors-Ratings, S&p g20, Standard-and-Poor-Downgrade, g20, Business News

China: Funding Pledge To IMF Should Be Honored

2012-01-19T02:47:00Z

BEIJING, Jan 19 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the world's leading economic powers should honour a pledg...

Read more: European Debt Crisis, Video, New Agreements to Borrow, China's Foreign Ministry, International Monetary Fund, Reuters, Financial Crisis, g20, China, Business News

IMF Denies Report On $600 Billion Lending Facility

2011-12-07T16:26:27Z

The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday denied a report in Japan's Nikkei newspaper that the Group of 20 nations were planning to assemble a ...

Read more: g20 Lending Facility, European Debt Crisis, Eurozone, Video, Imf-Funding, Business News, Imf, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Euro Crisis, g20, Business News

Robert Stavins: Can the Durban Climate Negotiations Succeed?

2011-11-28T18:06:22Z

Two weeks of international climate negotiations begin today in Durban, South Africa. These are the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of ...

Read more: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Law, Australia, Environmental Policy, Durban, Environmental Economics, Cost-Effectiveness, Climate Change Policy, United Nations, Cop-15, Regulation, Obama Administration, Cop-16, Poznan, Global Climate Policy, Major Economies Forum, South Africa, Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems, Environmental Politics, Cap-and-Trade, Kyoto Protocol, Copenhagen Accord, Korea, Cop-17, Bali, Baseball, Cancun, Politics, New Zealand, Copenhagen, European Union, G-20, Japan, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Unfccc, Positive Political Economy | Tagged Annex I, India, Green News

Otaviano Canuto: The Doha Round: Much More Than Market Access

2011-11-16T16:24:55Z

There is much that the Doha Round, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in particular, can do to improve trade conditions around the world.

Read more: Free Trade, G20 Summit, World Trade Organization, Doha Round, European Debt, Doha Eurozone, Doha Talks, g20 Talks, Cannes Eurozone Crisis, Wto Talks, Doha Climate Change, World News