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2010-11-30
Inicio - Children and Armed Conflict
Inicio - Children and Armed Conflict
NIÑOS Y LOS CONFLICTOS ARMADOS
La aplicación sobre el terreno de normas internacionales para la protección de los niños en conflictos armados está recibiendo un impulso extraordinario. Ahora resulta imperativo mantener ese impulso para consolidar los logros obtenidos en este ámbito y hacer avanzar aún más el programa relativo a los niños y los conflictos armados.
World premiere screening of the award-winning documentary "Children of War" as part of the Zero Under 18 Campaign (organized by the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict)
2010-11-24
Condemning latest attack, UN chief urges calm on Korean peninsula
United Nations, 23 November 2010 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for restraint after today's artillery attack by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Yeongpyeong Island, located near its coastline in the Yellow Sea and belonging to the Republic of Korea (ROK).
California Colloquium on Water: Miller
Can California's Water Infrastructure Sustain Future Climate Change?; given by Norman Miller, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor of Hydrology, University of Arizona, Tuscon.
how to turn good science into good politics ?
how to turn good science into good politics ?
Energy Symposium: The Rosenfeld Effect
Energy Symposium: The Rosenfeld Effect - Session One
This session features John Holdren - Director, The Woods Hole Research Center, Harvard University & Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; NRDC Energy Team: Sheryl Carter - Director, Western Energy Programs; Devra Bachrach..
The "Rosenfeld Effect" Energy Symposium discussed the role of increased energy efficiency in California, in China, and on a global scale; the intersection of energy and safe drinking water in the developing world; the twin challenges of mitigating climate change and sustaining orderly markets in fluid fuels; how to turn good science into good politics; and defining, predicting, and coping with global warming.
Energy Symposium: The Rosenfeld Effect - Session Three
The "Rosenfeld Effect" Energy Symposium discussed the role of increased energy efficiency in California, in China, and on a global scale; the intersection of energy and safe drinking water in the developing world; the twin challenges of mitigating climate change and sustaining orderly markets in fluid fuels; how to turn good science into good politics; and defining, predicting, and coping with global warming. This session features Robert Socolow - Professor & Co-Director, The Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University; Steve Chu - 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics & Lab Director, LBNL.
Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services,...
Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services,...
Energy Symposium: The Rosenfeld Effect - Session Five
The "Rosenfeld Effect" Energy Symposium discussed the role of increased energy efficiency in California, in China, and on a global scale; the intersection of energy and safe drinking water in the developing world; the twin challenges of mitigating climate change and sustaining orderly markets in fluid fuels; how to turn good science into good politics; and defining, predicting, and coping with global warming.
This session features Joseph Romm - Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions. [events] [glopubaffairs] [scitech] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services, sponsor:College of Natural Resources, speaker:Joseph Romm
2010-11-18
Education in Afghanistan « Pulitzer Gateway
Education in Afghanistan « Pulitzer Gateway
Three decades of war and internal conflict has left an indelible mark on the fabric of Afghan society. Nowhere is this more evident than Afghanistan’s educational system. Here, the success or failure of the country’s schools will have tremendous impact on its future.
Video by Shaun McCanna, Flamingo Productions
Produced in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Three decades of war and internal conflict has left an indelible mark on the fabric of Afghan society. Nowhere is this more evident than Afghanistan’s educational system. Here, the success or failure of the country’s schools will have tremendous impact on its future.
Video by Shaun McCanna, Flamingo Productions
Produced in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Aung San Suu Kyi demands release of political prisoners
Amnesty International today welcomes the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, but calls on the government of Myanmar to immediately release all of the prisoners of conscience in the country.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's best-known prisoner of conscience, has spent more than 15 of the past 21 years under house arrest. She was one of more than 2,200 political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience , currently being held in deplorable conditions for simply exercising their right to peaceful protest.
Pulitzer Center's National Press Foundation awards ceremony video
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting was honored at the "Journalism Matters" 27th Annual National Press Foundation Awards Dinner on February 16, 2010 at the Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The Pulitzer Center received the 2009 Excellence in Online Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation.
The Center is shedding light on issues that are both fascinating and tragically under-covered, such as refugees, homophobia, climate change and children and women in crisis, the judges said. The Centers site is embracing the vastness of the Web and not trying to do all the heavy lifting on these topics by itself. While the Center offers rich photography and powerful images and terrific narrative pieces, the site also links off to a wider range of sources on each topic, acknowledging that the role of the journalist is not just to produce great journalism on a topic, but also to help surface other interesting content about that topic.
The judges were Jim Brady, Allbritton Communications; Len Apcar, International Herald Tribune; and Mitch Gelman, THX ltd. We applaud the site's attempts at reaching out to the broader community via user-generated content and attempting to provide tips on how these pieces can be used as part of a school curriculum. Overall, we felt the combination of strong subject matter, terrific multimedia content and an extremely Web-friendly approach made the Pulitzer Center's entry the best of the year, they added.
Other news outlets and organizations to be honored: the Denver Post, CBS News' 60 Minutes, CNN, The Associated Press, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press and the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
Learn more about the Pulitzer Center at www.pulitzercenter.org
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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The Pulitzer Center received the 2009 Excellence in Online Journalism Award from the National Press Foundation.
The Center is shedding light on issues that are both fascinating and tragically under-covered, such as refugees, homophobia, climate change and children and women in crisis, the judges said. The Centers site is embracing the vastness of the Web and not trying to do all the heavy lifting on these topics by itself. While the Center offers rich photography and powerful images and terrific narrative pieces, the site also links off to a wider range of sources on each topic, acknowledging that the role of the journalist is not just to produce great journalism on a topic, but also to help surface other interesting content about that topic.
The judges were Jim Brady, Allbritton Communications; Len Apcar, International Herald Tribune; and Mitch Gelman, THX ltd. We applaud the site's attempts at reaching out to the broader community via user-generated content and attempting to provide tips on how these pieces can be used as part of a school curriculum. Overall, we felt the combination of strong subject matter, terrific multimedia content and an extremely Web-friendly approach made the Pulitzer Center's entry the best of the year, they added.
Other news outlets and organizations to be honored: the Denver Post, CBS News' 60 Minutes, CNN, The Associated Press, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press and the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
Learn more about the Pulitzer Center at www.pulitzercenter.org
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Suite 615
Washington, District Of Columbia 20036
Untold Stories | Pulitzer Center
"We will illuminate dark places and, with a deep sense of responsibility, interpret these troubled times."JOSEPH PULITZER III (1913-1993)
Untold Stories | Pulitzer Center
Untold Stories is a blog featuring dispatches from Pulitzer Center journalists.
Untold Stories | Pulitzer Center
Untold Stories is a blog featuring dispatches from Pulitzer Center journalists.
2010-11-07
Clooney's Campaign
Clooney's Campaign
The largest country in Africa, Sudan is also the site of some of the continent's biggest challenges. Omar al-Bashir, the nation's Islamist leader who came to power in a 1989 coup, has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court for directing the mass killing and rape that has devastated Sudan's Darfur region since 2003. A decades-old civil war between the North and South ended with a fragile peace in 2005, but an upcoming vote on Southern independence threatens to derail the peace process. George Clooney and John Prendergast on how commitment from all parties involved—including the U.S.—can keep war from once again consuming this troubled nation.
The largest country in Africa, Sudan is also the site of some of the continent's biggest challenges. Omar al-Bashir, the nation's Islamist leader who came to power in a 1989 coup, has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court for directing the mass killing and rape that has devastated Sudan's Darfur region since 2003. A decades-old civil war between the North and South ended with a fragile peace in 2005, but an upcoming vote on Southern independence threatens to derail the peace process. George Clooney and John Prendergast on how commitment from all parties involved—including the U.S.—can keep war from once again consuming this troubled nation.
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Etymological Dictionary of Grasses
Eight years of research were required to compile this elaborate interactive glossary of more than 13,000 terms. A multimedia introductory section explains the general rules of taxonomy and the naming of these organisms that are of key importance to agriculture.
Five Kingdoms A Multimedia Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
An expert overview of our planet’s biodiversity: the kingdoms of bacteria, protoctista, fungi, plants and animals.
An Interactive Education Tool for Secondary Schools and Undergraduate University Teaching
Mutations - Mutations - changes to the gene make-up of an organism - are hugely important. They are responsible for all the genetic variation in humans and other species thus allowing evolutionary changes to take place. Mutations is a comprehensive program in which the types, origins and consequences of both gene (DNA) and chromosome mutations are introduced.
Arthropods of Economic Importance Diaspididae of the World
Armoured scale insects are important agricultural, horticultural and forestry pests that are difficult to identify.
Yeasts of the World Morphology, physiology, sequences and identification
Yeasts are not only essential for the production of bread, beer and wine, but also play a major role in many more modern industrial processes, such as the production of enzymes, pigments, antioxydants etc. Moreover many yeasts are important as human pathogens, or as spoilage organisms in the food industry.
Interactive Guide to Mushrooms and other Fungi
Information on nearly 900 mushrooms found in Britain and the continental lowlands.
Fish Eggs and Larvae from Asian Mangrove Waters
Fish Eggs and Larvae from Asian Mangrove Waters
Harmful Marine Dinoflagellates
This treatise represents a comprehensive, up-to-date multifunctional dinoflagellate identification database featuring information on 69 species of harmful marine dinoflagellates and associated species present in the world's oceans. This database includes 44 toxin-producing species, brevetoxins, saxitoxins and ciguatoxins, and seven nuisance species that produce 'red tides' often resulting in massive sea life mortalities. In addition to the species description, information is available on the morphology, reproduction, ecology, toxicity, and habitat and locality for each species. A comprehensive glossary of more than 120 related scientific terms, and an extensive literature reference collection containing about 500 citations is included. There are nearly 600 figures illustrating every species via scanning electron micrographs (60%), light micrographs 120%), and/or line drawings (20%). The matrix-based identification key allows for multiple entry of characters to facilitate fast and effective diagnosis of a given species.
Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean
World Biodiversity Database electronic series
Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros
Lemurs are threatened species and occur only on Madagascar and the Comoros. Detailed information is offered on this CD of 61 (sub) species and 34 higher taxa, with colour drawings, photos, film-shots and sounds.
DNA and Proteins
An Interactive Education Tool for Secondary Schools and Undergraduate University Teaching
Arthropods of Economic Importance Agromyzidae of the World
The Agromyzidae (mining flies) are a highly diverse dipteran family of exclusively phytophagous species. The world fauna consists of about 2,750 species. Of these, some 110 species are known to occur on cultivated crops. A number of species are of particular importance, especially Liriomyza and Ophiomya.
Chironomidae Larvae Key to the Higher Taxa and Species of the Lowlands of Northwestern Europe
The Chironomidae form a cosmopolitan family of small nematocerous flies represented by some 1,300 species in the West Palaearctic Region. Chironomid larvae are widely distributed and the vast majority have aquatic juvenile stages which, on average, comprise one third of the invertebrate species in freshwater habitats. This usual abundance, and the fact that a number of species are pollution-tolerant, make chironomidae ideal indicator species in monitoring the quality of surface waters.
Flora Malesiana: Orchids of the Philippines Volume 1
The Philippines have a unique and rich orchid flora of almost 1000 species, of which about 74% are found nowhere else in the world.
Birds of Europe 'The handy birding tool'
Compiled by European ornithologists, Birds of Europe is a comprehensive source of information on 447 bird species. Detailed descriptions, full colour illustrations, sound recordings of birdcalls, pictures of eggs, video clips, and interactive maps depicting the summer, year-round and winter distribution.
Interactive Flora of the British Isles A Digital Encyclopedia
An encyclopaedic work, compiled from authoritative sources, and presenting an overview of the entire flora of the British Isles. It encompasses more than 3,500 taxa and includes all native and naturalized plants, all crop plants and all recurrent casuals.
