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Focusing on the executive actions you can take without Congress is a great idea, Mr. President.
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On February 19, the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs along with the Office of Global Food Security and the Foreign Service Institute will host the conference "Food Security and Minimizing Postharvest Loss." Government officials, representatives from the private sector, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and foreign diplomatic corps will discuss the issue of postharvest loss, focusing on Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
Postharvest loss is collective food loss along the production chain, from harvest and handling to storage and processing to packing and transportation.... more »
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Barack Obama's State of the Union address makes one thing clear: The world is no longer America's problem.
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Writers in Botswana are notoriously underpaid. This is endemic from television to magazines to newspapers. Since most people learn to write in standard one, many people believe that writing is easy, anyone can do it. Because of this good writers are undermined. If you compare rates for writers in Botswana to our neighbours in South Africa it is shocking what we tolerate in this country.
Let's look at television. A few years ago BTV was looking for scriptwriters for a thirty minute sitcom. They were offering a rate of P1800 per episode. If you check the minimum rate for South African scriptwriters for writing a thirty minute sitcom as recommended by the South African Scriptwriting Association you see that they recommend R8000-R11000 per episode. The discrepancy is almost laughable if it ...
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Concluding his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama invoked the families of recent gun vdecliolence victims, who attended the speech to represent the need for gun violence prevention measures. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) stood in respect. Obama talked with emotion about 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was gunned down shortly after performing [...]
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(Asmara 11-02-2012) Members of Team ArbiHarnet in Asmara have reported that many Asmara residents who were caught reading the Protest Posters put up last week were arrested and taken for questioning.
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From the transcript (emphasis added):
We also know that progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. In many places, people live on little more than a dollar a day. So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades: by connecting more people to the global economy and empowering women; by giving our young and brightest minds new opportunities to serve and helping communities to feed, power, and educate themselves; by saving the world's children from preventable deaths; and by realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation. Immediately followed by democracy and governance:
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President Says Warming-Driven Extreme Weather Demands We "Act Before It's Too Late," While GOP's Rubio Pushes Climate Denial, Attacks Solyndra! Below are Obama's extensive remarks on energy and climate in his State of the Union address. The President has expanded on his strong remarks in his Second Inaugural, asserting "if Congress won't act soon to [...]
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In his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama calls for raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour, up from its current $7.25. He also called for raising the tipped minimum wage -- made by tipped employees, such as waitresses -- and for indexing the minimum wage to inflation so that it grows [...]
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In late January of 2012, Austin Oberbillig and Evan Ricks, students at Olympia High School in Olympia, Washington made a video called "Lunch Scholars". The video was meant to be a high school version of "Jaywalking", a sketch Jay Leno has done for twenty years, where he asks people on the street near his Hollywood [...]
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Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, is speaking today at the Berkman Center on her research on internet usage in Ghana, the subject of her (excellent) book Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana. Burrell is an ethnographer and sociologist, and her examination of Ghanaian internet [...]
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In a practicum course being taught at Georgetown Law Center this spring, Mark Quarterman, Research Director here at Enough, and James Bair, associate at the law firm Brown Rudnick and adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center, aim to help law students understand the mechanisms for addressing human rights abuses in public international law. Using as a case study the current situation in Sudan-specifically the atrocities and crimes against humanity being committed there by state and non-state actors-student will gain an in-depth understanding of the complicated application of international law in litigating human rights abuses.
While other human rights law courses take a generalized comparative approach to examining potential applications of human rights law, Bair and Quarterman's curriculum ...
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The culmination of two years of bilateral negotiation shepherded by former South African President Thabo Mbeki's African Union High Level Implementation Panel, the September 2012 agreements between Sudan and South Sudan were heralded as a landmark success. President Obama lauded the peace deal, remarking
This agreement breaks new ground in support of the international vision of two viable states at peace with each other, and represents substantial progress in resolving the outstanding security and economic issues between Sudan and South Sudan.
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On February 8, unidentified gunmen killed four health workers at a site in Kano state and injured three others, according...
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