SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BSR's Migration Linkages initiative--which works with business, civil society, government, and others to protect the rights of international migrant workers facing basic rights and labor challenges--received US$400,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to expand work in Southeast Asia, the Middle East/Gulf states, and North Africa. This funding continues the MacArthur Foundation's support of this initiative. This support from the MacArthur Foundation comes at a critical time for BSR's work on international labor migration," said Chad Bolick, Director of Partnership Development at BSR. "After forging new ground over the past two years, we are now in a strong position to equip companies with the tools necessary to st...
NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) today announced the launch of the Global Innovation Initiative (GII), a program designed to support Science, Technology, Math and Engineering (STEM) educators and students in solving the problems of global poverty in environmentally and economically sustainable ways. Focusing especially on STEM Education, the NCIIA and its partners seek to identify and train the next generation of inventors and entrepreneurs in countries where these opportunities are not widely available. Armed with fifteen years of experience working with U.S.-based student entrepreneurs to develop and commercialize products and technology that address needs in global health, clean water, sustainable energy and consumer...
Transcript of a press briefing by Deputy National Security Adviser for Communications Jim Wilkinson, G-8 Summit Planning Organization Director of Communications Barry Bennett, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci on the G-8 Summit
... the Region of the Broader Middle East and North Africa. Text: G-8 Plan of Support for Reform. Fact...: Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative. Fact sheet: U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Area (MEF...
When President Bush launched the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) initiative, a common criticism was that America was trying to impose its ideas of reform and priorities on Arab nations. On Dec. 11, an outgrowth of the BMENA initiative took place under the name of the Forum for the Future, bringing together the foreign and finance ministers of the G-8 and Middle East and North African states. After reading some of the press coverage following the forum, one may conclude that the event - supposedly about Arab reform - became a platform for Arab nations to chide the United States over its policies in Iraq and lack of action in resolving the Palestinian issue.
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "First Jobs, Then Futures for MENA Youth" will enable 13,000 young women and men in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to build their futures through jobs and entrepreneurship. Education For Employment's (EFE) three-year, $17-million commitment, announced at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, is made possible through partnerships with The MasterCard Foundation, ManpowerGroup, the United States Department of State Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), Microsoft Corporation, Intel Corporation, the Aspen Institute's Partners for a New Beginning, North Africa Partnership (PNB-NAPEO), and local partners across the MENA region. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110921/DC72276LOGO)
... worldwide and more than 75% of them are African children and expectant mothers who have less immun...Similarly, in north-east Panjub, the former province of India, malaria...Abidin and J.J. Pereira. 2011a. Initiatives and Market Mechanisms for Climate Change Actions i...
The Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces an open competition for the International Sports Programming Initiative. Public and private non- profit organizations meeting the provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3) may submit proposals for projects designed to reach out to youth and promote mutual understanding by increasing the professional capacity of those who design and manage youth sports programs in select countries in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, the Near East and North Africa, South and Central Asia, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere. The focus of all programs must be on reaching out to both male and female youth ages 7- 17 and/or their coaches/administrators. Programs designed to train elite...
... counterterrorism ties with partners in North Africa. And we left no doubt that America would s... like the Middle East Partnership Initiative and the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initi...
Uncertain initiative A U.S. plan to promote democracy in the Middle East and North Africa is doomed unless the Bush administration changes its policies in the region, according to an assessment by the International Crisis Group.
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