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What Do the World’s Mothers Want?

May 12, 2013 BY Chrysula Winegar

The Global Mom Relay has brought together the famous and the unknown. It’s brought together men and women and girls. It’s brought together experts and advocates.
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POSTED IN: #SGSGlobal, Campaigns & Initiatives, Get Involved, Global Issues, On the Ground, Photo of the Day

Green energy saves more than the environment

May 10, 2013 BY Helen Clark

The United Nations Rio+20 Conference last year called for urgent action to put the world on a more equitable and sustainable development path.
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POSTED IN: #SGSGlobal, Global Issues, On the Ground

Calling all global moms

May 6, 2013 BY Amy DiElsi

On May 8, a unique one-day event is taking place: the Mom+Social conference. Mom+Social is the crowning event of the Global Mom Relay, a 60-day online conversation that has connected moms and experts around the world. Relay participants have shared personal experiences, stories about motherhood, and global causes they care about...
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POSTED IN: Get Involved, Global Issues

UNESCO's fight to promote a truly American value globally: Freedom of speech

May 3, 2013 BY Peter Yeo

Every year on this day, May 3, the international community comes together for World Press Freedom Day. For those of us here in the United States, it's a day to not only celebrate our constitutionally-protected freedom of speech, but more importantly, to stand up and demand it for all...
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A new shot at life for Suleiman – and millions of other children worldwide

May 1, 2013 BY Peter Yeo

The kids were lined up three rows deep in 115-degree heat when I arrived yesterday in Bandouki, an isolated village in northern Cameroon. But their mothers, and older sisters in some cases, knew that vaccination day was worth the wait...
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POSTED IN: Campaigns & Initiatives, Global Issues, On the Ground

Forecast: Storms with a Chance of Hope

April 29, 2013 BY Patrick Madden

It's almost cliché to say extreme weather is becoming the norm, but the sad fact is the dangerous extremes are due in part to climate change. The storyline hasn’t changed, but it keeps getting worse: pollution has dramatically affected the earth’s atmosphere, the polar ice caps are melting, ocean levels are rising, ocean temperatures are shifting, and weather patterns have become more dramatic.
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POSTED IN: Campaigns & Initiatives, Global Issues, United Nations

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