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Students Bent on Fighting Racism and Encouraging Cultural Diversity
A group of students in Nova Scotia bring the fight against racism to their school by encouraging people to embrace cultural diversity organizing a...
George Clooney Named UN’s Messenger of Peace
Hollywood heart-throb George Clooney has been apointed a United Nations. Messenger of Peace by the Organization's chief, Ban Ki-moon who recognized the actor as...
Top Ten Good News Stories of 2007!
Looking back and choosing the top good news stories of the year was a happy exercise and I've concluded that 2007 was a good...
Homeless World Cup Film to Premiere at Sundance
KICKING IT is an intimate film that chronicles the lives of seven homeless athletes who achieve goals on the football field while overcoming poverty...
Children Send Holiday Wishes to 1,000 Kenyan Peacekeepers
Kenyan children have sent more than 2,000 homemade Christmas and New Years messages to their country’s nearly 1,100 peacekeepers serving under United Nations' blue...
Sailors Raise Cash and Beer Mugs for Charity
This weekend marks the annual intersection of sailing, beer drinking and charitable giving, a mix more harmonious because it is set on the...
A Dollar a Day Transforms Teen Pen Pals in U.S. and Brazil
Imagine the thrill. You're an American teen, planting your toes into the sands of Brazil for the first time. Imagine total immersion into a...
Nobel Peace Prizes Spread Across Globe
Stockholm, Sweden – Nobel Peace Prize winners are increasingly chosen from among diverse nations, as more nominations for the honor are directed toward Africans,...
Six Million Children Immunized Against Measles In DPR Korea
Six million children in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) aged six months to 15 years have been immunized in a massive United...
Colombian Peace Groups Nominated for Nobel Prize
Two Colombian groups were nominated in February for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their extraordinary commitment to nonviolence in the midst of the...
Sony Joins Nike Cutting 10M Tons of Global Warming Gases
As nations gathered to discuss climate change in Paris, twelve major corporations recommitted their pledge, and reported they are on course to eliminate at...
Top Ten Stories of 2006: 8) Wars On the Wane Worldwide
8) Wars On the Wane Worldwide as Reconciliation Unites Divisions • The world has become dramatically more peaceful since 1992, according to...
Top Ten Good News of 2006!
With casualties in Iraq reaching record numbers, the war in Lebanon punctuating the continuing crises in the Middle East and the ongoing slaughter in...
Banker to the Poor Wins Nobel Prize, Reinvests Winnings
Bangladeshi Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus, and his Grameen Bank are winners of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to help...
Clean Up the World Weekend Mobilizes Millions
Some 35 million volunteers from 122 countries are expected take part this weekend in rubbish-clearing efforts along coastlines and waterways across the globe as...
Online Video Gamers Pull Cancer Victim From Financial Fire
The World of Warcraft online forum chronicles the outpouring of generosity and goodwill by a gaming guild who came to the aid of one...
UNICEF Launches $150M Recovery Plan Restoring Schools, Clinics Lost in Pakistan Quake
UNICEF will construct 500 permanent schools and some 70 permanent rural health centres in northern Pakistan, the UN Children's Fund said on Wednesday, where...
First Whooping Cranes Hatch in Midwest in Over 100 Years
Last week wildlife officials in Wisconsin celebrated the birth of two whooping crane chicks marking the first time in over 100 years that a...
Rape Victim Awakens Pakistani Village Womens’ Rights
Mukhtar Mai is a shy Pakistani woman with such extraordinary courage that she was named Glamour's Woman of the Year, one of Asia's Heros...
UN Polio Campaign Underway in Afghanistan to Safeguard Two Million Children
More than two million Afghan children are currently being immunized in a United Nations-backed three-day polio eradication drive following a sixth reported case of...