By: Wendy Stenberg-TendysThe Fijian United Nations Development Programme, is considering looking at consigning a value to the time people use up on unsalaried work. The latest report revealed that women in Suva spend 58 hours a week on housework, contrasted to males who only spend 8 hours.The report also said that women in the [...]
By: Kenday S. Kamara
“For the second consecutive year Sierra Leone has come last in the UN Development Program ranking of human development indicators of 179 countries, which according to Engilbert Gudmundsson, World Bank Sierra Leone country director, “should be a call to action for everyone who is interested in the well-being of ordinary people in [...]
By: Murali
ng>Problem of Identity in Globalization
Dr.R.Murali
Head, Dept. of Philosophy
The Madura College
Madurai-625011
“A world culture which was simply a uniform culture would be no culture at all. We should have a humanity de-humanised. It would be a nightmare”.- Eliot, T.S.
Although essentially an economic phenomenon, globalization could only be envisaged in the context of wider interaction between different [...]
By: Belay Alebel Abebe
1. Introduction
It is on record that river Nile is one of the world’s longest transboundary rivers flowing a distance of more than 6,700 kilometres from its farthest source at the headwaters of the Kagera Basin in Rwanda and Burundi to the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt. Its catchments basin covers approximately 10% of [...]
By: Mamta Nainy
January 27, 2010India Habitat Centre, New DelhiThe present population of Delhi is about 13.9 million. Of this nearly 45% population lives in unauthorized colonies, rural villages and slums and JJ clusters.India is indeed shining! Yet the dense black cloud that we all can see if we have a minute to stop and look [...]
By: Sara Criss
You can get various sticky samples that would insist on anything you can chew over. All you have to do is to coincide with best online printing company so as to accomplish your business needs in style.With the expansion of knowledge, it has become absolutely imperative for the people to get done their [...]
By: iddrissuThe National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has inaugurated the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Management on Wednesday 14 October, 2009 at the Accra International Conference Centre. The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) was established under the Resolution 1999/63 of the United Nations to member sate to strengthen and maintain multi – sectoral [...]
By: Mamnoon Ahmad Khan
History and Origins of Recent Wave of TerrorismBy Mamnoon Ahmad Khan IntroductionI clearly remember that thirty years back I haven’t heard the word terrorism or terrorist. There was only one term in use which was Israel’s aggression on Arabs and Palestinians. But after the Russian (formerly USSR) invasion on Afghanistan, the scenario [...]
By: devika. p
INTRODUCTION The empowerment of women refers to providing the necessary rights and responsibilities to women in order to make them self-reliant. Traditionally, Indian women have been brought to become workers or servants to serve the man – dominating world. Even in mythology, there is no gender equity and women were deprived of their [...]
By: Zahidul Islam BiswasThe Village Court: A neglected but potential rural justice forum Zahidul Islam Biswas VILLAGE level traditional juridical mechanism named ’shalish’ is active in rural Bangladesh from time immemorial. An informal justice mechanism, Shalish is: ‘basically a practice of gathering village elders and concerned parties, exclusively male, for the resolution of local disputes. [...]
By: Seema Behl
Workshop no.1Topic- ‘class management and understanding adolescents’Conducted by- Mrs. Dimple Kaur (Counselor/ Educationist-Times Group)Venue- brain international schoolDate- 19-06-09A workshop on motivation, class management and understanding adolescents was conducted whereby certain problems of the teachers and students were discussed and solutions were discussed too. ‘Interest’ was one tool to keep the motivation going as [...]
By: Zahidul Islam Biswas
Hartal, recent SC judgment and vulnerable public interest Zahidul Islam BiswasMost of the newspapers reported the Supreme Court judgment on hartal on December 02, 2007 as: the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court overturned the High Court verdict that had declared violence and coercion for or against hartal a criminal offence. Though [...]
By: shail
CONTENTS:- The international laws in the current aspects as viewed by most of the jurists round the globe are the laws that govern the relations of the nations with each other and the control over the individualism and freedom of these democratic as well as otherwise nations. the international laws are thought to be the [...]
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