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TIGblogs are TakingITGlobal's online space for you to reflect on events, talk about your travels, comment on the news, or just chat about your day! Below you can read about what's new at TakingITGlobal in our staff group blog, check out the featured TIGblog, or browse through TIGblog entries from the last 24 hours. Did you miss something important? Check out the most popular entries this week on the right hand side of the page.
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The other day I sat down with Mai Ngo , another TakingITGlobal staff member and got to know a little more about her. Mai grew up in Ottawa , Canada. She studied Psychology and English at Carleton University and then got her Bachelors... (read more)
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The world's most visited museum will have Europe's biggest purpose-built exhibition space for an Islamic art collection. (read more)
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Children's Rights Vs. The Rod.
Spare the rod and spoil an African Child.
The new breed of African children has emerged with its own understanding of issues and privileges.
Children can now advocate for their rights. Africa has always been identified as a continent with many short comings, countries each with its own cultures, tribes and norms.
But now, looks like there... (read more)
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Hello From Liberia
Hi All,
This is Zolu Gobah From Liberia. I am a Youth Activist and a former Delegate to the 3rd World Youth Congress that was held in Scotland United Kingdo. I also serve as member of the Thimun Youth Network Delegation to the UN World Summit On Information and Society that was held in Geneva , Switzerland.
With the knowledge gained... (read more)
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Extending sanctions hypocritical
Extending sanctions hypocritical Political and
Features Editor
THE Pulitzer Prize winning author of A Street Car named Desire, Tennessee Williams, once remarked that, "The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!"
Williams lived and died in the United States and so he surely knew a thing or two about... (read more)
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See "Universal Peace Calendar" on your Google homepage
To All: abc4all (at) gmail (dot) com , courtesy ABC4All Universal Ambassador Wilfried Fink , creator of the Universal Peace Calendar, has sent you the following Google Gadget and included this message: See "Universal Peace Calendar" on your Google homepage » (read more)
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Lionfish threatens Bahamas' coral reef system
Lionfish Concerns Linger -
By Kendea Jones:
Nassau, Bahamas:
Department of Fisheries officials are still looking for ways to deplete the population of lionfish in Bahamian waters, a species that threatens the well being of the coral reefs.
Lionfish are native to the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific region, but also live in... (read more)
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VLACH
Vlachs
Vlachs is a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It is also called Vallachians, Wallachians, Wlachs, Wallachs, Vlahs, Olahs or Ulahs; (Albanian: Vllenjë,Vllehë; Czech: Valaši; Greek: Βλάχοι Vláhi; Polish: Wołosi; South Slavic:... (read more)
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Nigeria oil giant 'paid rebels'
The head of Nigeria's national oil company has said it paid millions of dollars to militants to protect the country's oil infrastructure.
Abubakar Yar'Adua of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) made the comments to a national assembly committee.
He later said he had been misunderstood, and that no money was paid to the... (read more)
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4th World Youth Congress Book 'A Celebration of Youth-led Development'
At the 4th World Youth Congress there will be the creation of, 'A Celebration of Youth-led Development' book, supported by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The congress will be taking place in Quebec 10th-21st August and the creation of this publication will also take place during this time.
We are looking for your stories on... (read more)
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IDENTIITY
Welcome Canada 08!
The Global Youth Leadership Conference is a full day programme which is designed to shed some light on the nature of citizenship for young people in an inter-connected world visa vis human rights issues.
The goal of the Youth Conference is to stimulate new thinking and new knowledge on the various ways in which young... (read more)
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Statistics from Israel's demolition of Palestinian houses in Gaza Strip
The PCBS, this Tuesday, a statistical report on housing conditions in the Palestinian territories for in 2007, where the data indicate that this report to the 29314 family to demolish their homes were totally or partially, during the period from 28/09/2000 to 15/06 / 2007, by 317 families in the West Bank, and 28.997 families in the Gaza Strip.... (read more)
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Digital Natives - television series
So for the past 2 days, we had a camera crew from NHK - the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation - doing a series of interviews with our founders, capturing the office in action, and basically documenting how TIG and our members are changing the world using technology...
This is for an episode of a documentary series on Digital Natives that is... (read more)
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The 1 Factor
As most of you know one dollar in itself does not do much or mean much these days therefore you might be curious as to why the 1DollarClub only asks for $1. The 1DollarClub is not just about giving a dollar to charity; it is about creating a movement that encourages every single person to give a dollar to change the world.
The way... (read more)
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*˜ On The Wings of A Butterfly˜*˜
*˜ On The Wings of A Butterfly˜*˜
Your friendship is special
Like the flowers that bloom,
Or when a butterfly emerges
From within its cocoon...
You remind me of that butterfly,
Loving and free,
Bright and colorful,
For the world to see...
We will share sunshine and rainbows
Sometimes, the rain and the snow
We`ll stand... (read more)
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Rising Food Prices, Small holders, and Poverty Reduction
On Thursday, July 3, I had the opportunity to attend a panel discussion on rural development held by ECOSOC on the topic of small scale farmers, agriculture, and poverty reduction in the face of recent increases in food prices.
Small scale farmers , also referred to here as “small producers” or “small holders” are generally... (read more)
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