Posts Tagged: Amnesty International

Charities take MDGs from the summit to the streets and the tweets

If it was not for the work of charities and select sections of the media, I worry that the UN Millennium Development Goals summit and its purpose would have passed many people by. There has been some progress on the eight MDGs, but it is, at best, uneven and slow. For example, Eastern Asia has… Read more »

Voluntary groups show there’s power in numbers

There was a sense of unity at the Protest the Pope march in London on Saturday, which is no mean feat considering there were around 10,000 individuals, many of them defined by different beliefs, lifestyles, religions and creeds. I arrived by Tube, slightly concerned about getting myself arrested (never a good thing for a first… Read more »