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We published this morning our earnings expectations sheet for companies under coverage in 1Q25/FY25, with the following key conclusions:In FY25, aggregated net profit is expected to increase 10% YoYStocks that are expected to witness a shift from net loss to net profit YoY in 1Q25: ORHD and EGCHStocks that are expected to witness a spike (>80%) in net profit growth YoY in 1Q25: MBSC, CNFN, FAIT, MCQE, and ARCC. (sorted from highest rise in net profit)Stocks trading at P/E 2025 less than 5x: CCAP, EGBE, CICH, ADIB, and CANA. (sorted from lowest P/E)Please refer to our sheet published this morning for detailed earnings expectations and trading multiples.Egypt's total local and foreign debt repayment obligations are projected to jump around 30% to EGP2.1 trillion in the next fiscal year, up from an estimated EGP1.6 trillion for FY24/25.The Finance Ministry intends to issue new local debt instruments worth EGP1.5 trillion in the upcoming fiscal year, up from EGP1.2 trillion in the current fiscal year, as part of the government's plan to raise spending on social welfare and narrow the budget deficit.Egypt is among six Arab countries set to face a significant impact from Trump's tariff regime, assuming the tariff measures are fully implemented, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) said in a policy brief. A significant impact is defined as at least 5% of a country's global exports going to the US.The state is working to liberalize the country's electricity market by 2026, along with restructuring the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) and its separation from the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC).Federation of Egyptian Industries delegation is in Riyadh to talk investment in the Kingdom during a three-day business forum that wraps tomorrow. The government has estimated the financial allocations needed to import LNG and diesel shipments to meet the country's fuel needs during FY25/26 at approximately USD9.5 billion, compared to more than USD6 billion spent so far this year.President El-Sisi approved a USD500 million loan agreement from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to finance the Development Policy Financing for Resilience program.Scatec's 1 GW Obelisk solar plant will be connected to the grid by 220 kV transmission lines built under a contract between the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) with the consortium of Kharafi National and Power Ring. The project is planned to power EGAL's aluminum complex in Nagaa Hammadi. CCAP's United Foundries Company is planning to invest up to USD10 million in a new foundry in Helwan focusing on producing castings for the gold mining and cement industries, adding some 40k tons to the company's production capacity and bringing total output to around 70k tons annually.Hilton will open two new hotels in the New Capital. The two hotels, Hilton Cairo New Capital Downtown and Hilton Garden Inn Cairo New Capital Downtown, are scheduled to open in 2028.

At age eight, Zoya Kalinsky was instructed to leave the classroom by her math's teacher who told her she can only come back when she "stops twitching." - a condition outside of her control. Today, that same girl stands confidently in the United Nations Economic and Social Council chamber, addressing global leaders about her experience, the need to solve the bullying issue once and for all, and how we can transform our education systems to achieve that. In this episode, we meet Zoya at thirteen, fresh from speaking at the UN's Summit of the Future and launching ambitious initiatives as Skyway's youth ambassador. The Learning Economy established the Skyway initiative to address the growing need for a modernized approach to learning, as many existing systems struggle to keep up with the demands of an evolving, interconnected global society. Zoya is one of many students pioneering this novel learning model of change. But Zoya isn't just talking about change – she's living it. Between addressing world leaders and developing youth councils, she composes piano pieces about resilience, creates artwork that challenges bullying, and advocates for young voices in rooms where decisions about their future are made - often without their consent. In this episode WISE Director Elyas Felfoul sits down with Zoya to explore how she's experiencing a whole new way of learning with new technologies that could help create a system where no child feels left behind. Together, they unpack what it really means to transform education in an AI-powered world, and why having young people at the decision-making table isn't just important – it's essential. Subscribe to WISE On Air: https://pod.link/wiseonair Learn more about Zoya: 1. Instagram @zoyakalinsky 2. Website www.zoyakalinsky.com 3. UN anti-bullying speech Nov 2023 https://youtu.be/y_zbZH4fZaU?si=dcGWNS5P-ESh980S 4. Closing remarks and speech for AGIP Youth Power Summit Sept 2024 https://youtu.be/LZOp2X5_1O8?si=UkgnVmLv83LMOysQ 5. Blue Gallery NYC piano performance 2024 https://youtu.be/JoKVmlEWyGw?si=Iv9giXtNx5rn7Z1q 6. Skyway fundraising dinner NYC 2024 https://youtu.be/WPeX83dCdMA?si=zFkFLWND3YL-l_3m 7. iLead Hybrid School press release https://ileadschools.org/ilead-hybrid-7th-grader-zoya-kalinsky-addresses-united-nations/ 00:00 Introduction to Skyway and Its Mission 00:45 Meet Zoya Kalinsky: A Journey from Bullying to Advocacy 03:30 Zoya's Homeschooling Experience and Advocacy 09:44 The Role of AI and Technology in Education 16:14 Zoya's Involvement with International Organizations 17:40 The Importance of Youth in Decision-Making 21:13 Traveling and Learning: A Homeschooling Perspective 24:38 Art and Music: Tools for Advocacy 29:05 Future Plans and Upcoming Events

In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart and analyst Maha Yahya discuss the new developments in Syria. They look at how Syria's new leaders governed in the areas they controlled over the last few years, why some Syrian minorities are fleeing to Lebanon, and whether Turkey will pursue the Kurds in Syria. Maha Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her work focuses broadly on political violence and identity politics, pluralism, development and social justice after the Arab uprisings, the challenges of citizenship, and the political and socio-economic implications of the migration/refugee crisis. Prior to joining Carnegie, Yahya led work on Participatory Development and Social Justice at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA). Yahya has worked with international organizations and in the private sector as a consultant on projects related to socioeconomic policy analysis, development policies, cultural heritage, poverty reduction, housing and community development, and postconflict reconstruction in various countries including Lebanon, Pakistan, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Yahya  is the author of numerous publications, including most recently Unheard Voices: What Syrian Refugees Need to Return Home (April 2018) and The Summer of Our Discontent: Sects and Citizens in Lebanon and Iraq (June 2017). Peter Beinart is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. He is also a Professor of Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York, a Contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, an Editor-at-Large at Jewish Currents, and an MSNBC Political Commentator. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

A member of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove represents California's vibrant, diverse 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. She is the Co-Chair of the Congressional Brazil Caucus, and a Whip and Outreach Co-Chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus. Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove is also a fierce advocate for the African diaspora both in California's 37th District and around the world. She leveraged her role on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa to help establish the Congressional Black Caucus Institute's Global African Diaspora Initiative (GADI) and secure its special consultative status within the United Nations Economic & Social Council. Brazil is going through challenging times. There's never been a more important moment to understand Brazil's politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren't easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Professional regulatory authorities are government agencies or public organizations that have authority delegated by law from government. They provide oversight and certification to specified regulated occupations in B.C. (Government of BC, 2024). Professional regulation of the nursing profession has undergone significant change over the last decade with the Health Professions Act [HPA], primarily with professional associations and amalgamation of all nursing and midwifery colleges in BC. Listen as Patrick describes the evidence needed for both decision-making and evaluation with regulatory review, reform, and modernization. As professional regulatory competence, conduct, and discipline of health providers shifts to greater transparency and governmental oversight, is the public better protected? Patrick Chiu is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria. He has held several policy and professional practice positions in professional associations, regulatory bodies, and government. He holds a Bachelor of Science from McMaster University, a Master of Public Health from Simon Fraser University, a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Alberta (2022), and a Certified Global Nurse Consultant (CGNC) designation through the International Council of Nurses & CGFNS. Patrick holds several leadership roles at the national and global levels and currently serves as a Liaison to the United Nations (Economic and Social Council) for Sigma Nursing, Chair of CNA's Professional Associations and Membership Advisory Council, and is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership and Canadian Nurse Journal.Health Regulation in BC:  https://bchealthregulators.ca/health-regulation-in-bc/ Professional Regulatory Authorities:  https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/organizational-structure/ministries-organizations/regulatory-authorities British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives: https://www.bccnm.ca/Pages/Default.aspxNotes for the season acronyms:Allied Health Professions – other health care providers such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nutritionists, speech language pathologists, audiologists, respiratory therapists, and so on.ARNBC - Association of Registered Nurses of BCBCCNM - BC College of Nurses & MidwivesBCNU – BC Nurses UnionCNA - Canadian Nurses Association HHR – Health Human ResourceIEN - Internationally Educated NursesLPN – Licensed Practical Nurse NNPBC – Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of BC (formerly ARNBC)NBA – Nurses' Bargaining AssociationNPS – Nursing Policy Secretariat within the BC Ministry of HealthRNABC - Registered Nurses Association of BCRPN – Registered Psychiatric NurseInstagram: @calling.all.nursesComments and feedback can be sent to our email: callingallnurses.podcast@gmail.com

Ep#089 Kshitiz Dahal is an economist at South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment with key interests in international trade, development economics, and econometrics. He has worked extensively in Nepal's international trade, trade in digital services, migration and remittances, Nepal's industrial policy, and public debt. He has contributed to the research initiatives of international organizations, including the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Aslesh and Kshitiz discuss Nepal's public debt, exploring its origins, implications, and current scenario. Beginning with an examination of the concept of public debt and historical examples worldwide, they unravel the rising concerns surrounding Nepal's per capita debt. Through an analysis of various indicators and drivers behind the recent surge in public debt, they navigate the intricate landscape of debt financing and its repercussions on the Nepali economy and society. From understanding key lenders to dissecting the explicit and implicit costs associated with debt servicing, we shed light on the multifaceted nature of this economic phenomenon. If you liked the episode, hear more from us through our free newsletter services, PEI Substack: Of Policies and Politics, and click here to support us on Patreon!!   

Chief Arvol Looking was born on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. His primary responsibility is serving as the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe – a role he was given at the age of twelve making him the youngest pipe keeper in Lakota history. As keeper of the sacred Pipe he also serves as the spiritual leader to the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nation and advocates for the restoration of the Lakota Nation's rights to the Black Hills—as guaranteed by the 1868 Laramie Treaty. He grew up in an era of religious suppression, where traditional Lakota ceremonies were outlawed in both the US and Canada from the early 1900's until the Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1978. His family was forced to hold Sundance, sweatlodge, vision quests, and healing ceremonies underground for fear of arrest by the police. Arvol's advocacy of environmental and Indigenous rights and issues has been recognized globally as a recipient of the Wolf Award of Canada, the Juliet Hollister Award, a Non-Governmental Organization with Consultation Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. He is also the author of White Buffalo Teachings and a guest columnist for Indian Country Today. Since 1990, Arvol has also devoted himself to facilitate healing to all people and cultures through several sacred Prayer Rides on Horseback including The Annual Wintertime Chief Bigfoot Memorial Ride to Wounded Knee in order to mend the Sacred Hoop that was broken during the Massacre in 1890, The Unity Ride from B.C. to Six Nations in the early 2000s whose purpose was to heal historical trauma through the land and animals, and since 2005, he has supported and participated on the Dakota 38 Ride that takes place every December from South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to honor the memory of the 38 + 2 Dakota men who died under order of President Abraham Lincoln the Day after Christmas in 1862 in what was the largest mass hanging in U.S. history.

Dive into the heart of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to Action this September in NYC. Hosted by Toby Usnik on "The Caring Economy Podcast", this episode highlights CGI's mission of cultivating groundbreaking partnerships, bolstering social entrepreneurs, and amplifying NGOs aiming for scalable impact. Join us as we welcome Elisa Tertulien, Batey Relief Alliance's (BRA) dynamic representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and a Howard University alum. Along with insights from BRA Founder, Ulrick Gaillard, this episode unravels the Women's Empowerment Initiative, a trailblazing menstrual health & hygiene project in the Dominican Republic's bateyes. For context, bateyes denote vulnerable rural regions where Haitian migrants are centered around sugarcane plantations. Amidst economic isolation, gender disparities, and pressing poverty, the women and girls of bateyes often face barriers to education, healthcare, and financial empowerment. Elisa, with her rich background in performing arts, education, and marketing, brings a unique perspective to the challenges and solutions in menstrual health. Delve into the transformative steps BRA is taking, from providing menstrual hygiene management workshops to distributing reusable sanitary products, all in a bid to combat stigma and foster education continuity for young girls. The episode also spotlights BRA's multifaceted approach in Guazumita's bateyes, encompassing financial literacy, agricultural production best practices, and the pivotal role of community health workers. As we journey through this impactful discourse, we address key questions on BRA's success stories, challenges, the future vision for menstrual health in bateyes, and CGI's pivotal role in galvanizing social entrepreneurs. Engage with our series as we dissect pressing topics, share actionable insights, and spotlight solutions that are making waves in the realms of social entrepreneurship, women's empowerment, and global initiatives.

This week, Isabelle Paradis, President and Founder of HOT TELECOM, joins Nabeel Mahmood and Phillip Koblence on the Nomad Futurist Podcast to jump into her transformative journey in the telecom industry. With an impressive 30 years of global experience, Isabelle is a visionary leader specializing in international and wholesale telecom services. Before founding HOT TELECOM, she earned a bachelor's degree in engineering and an MBA in Finance. Isabelle is not only an industry expert, but also an advocate for the inclusion of women and young people in technology and science. She serves on multiple boards, including the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia Pacific (ESCAP) and the Global Telecom Women's Network.Phil and Nabeel kick off the episode eager to explore what it is that Isabelle does:“I run a company called Hot Telecom. It's been in business for 20 years, and we do telecom, strategic consulting, and market research, focusing more and more on marketing and content. We are creating fun, memorable content and events for telecom operators in the international space. So, we are really focused, we are niche, in the wholesale and international space.”When questioned about her drive and initiatives in working with the younger generation and creating excitement around the industry, Isabelle shares a valuable insight:"I just tell them, do what you love. If they want to be an entrepreneur, as long as you go in with your eyes wide open, which I think is the key, then do it. If you know what you're getting yourself into and you're happy with that, please go ahead."Isabelle wraps up the interview by sharing some of her key takeaways: "I think the energy you bring, especially positive energy, plays a big part in getting you to a better place. Giving back has an important role because when you give back you receive so much more in return. For example, when I work with my customers, I'm a consultant. If at the end of the day, I made them smile and I made a difference in their business or in their life, then I've succeeded on that day."Isabelle Paradis's episode is more than just a career overview; it's a lesson in leadership and a deep dive into the complexities of the telecom industry. Her insights make this episode a must-listen for anyone aspiring to make a significant impact in the world of telecommunications.Connect with Isabelle on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to learn more.

Lauren Cameron is TICT's newly appointed Carbon Action Advisor. Lauren is a sustainability and communications specialist, whose career spans fifteen years working across sustainability, international development, tourism and media. Having started out as a journalist with The Advocate in Tasmania's northwest, Lauren has since worked as Chief Editor of a sustainable lifestyle magazine in Hong Kong, managed international development programs in Vietnam, partnered with sustainable tourism operators across Asia, and worked in the Environment and Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.For those that missed her at the Positive Impact 2 Conference, Lauren launched the TICT Emissions Reduction Initiative - a project supported by the state government to make Tasmania a leading destination for climate conscious travel by 2030. In this episode, Kelly Luck (also from TICT) chats with Lauren all about the initiative, how Tassie tourism operators can get involved, and the importance of reducing our carbon emissions. The key takeaway from this episode is the EOI period to be involved with the initiative closes on Friday 1 September - so make sure you jump onto the TICT website via this link to read more info and apply: https://tict.com.au/emissions-reduction/Today's episode is brought to you by our partner, the Department of State Growth. The Department of State Growth brings together four interrelated divisions developing a strategic approach that drives economic growth and supports the community, industry, and business in the creation of jobs and opportunities for Tasmanians. Thanks to the Department of State Growth for their generous support of TICT and for helping make this episode of Talking Tourism possible.

In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Nicole Fox about her monograph, After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda (2021, The University of Wisconsin Press Press). How does a society move forward after the mass violence of genocide? What role do public memorials play in creating healing narratives ? Whose experiences get told and re-told, and whose experiences get marginalized as years go by? 2024 marks thirty years since the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and scholar Nicole Fox provides insight into these questions based on years of interviews with survivors who now dedicate their time to working at and maintaining public memorials. Fox makes a powerful argument for conceptualizing memorials "as a form of restorative justice through their ability to provide information on past atrocities, facilitate localized reconciliation and educational programs, and give survivors a sense of hope for the future."Nicole Fox is an associate professor of criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento where she teaches about atrocity crimes, mass incarceration, global criminology and law. Her research centers on how racial and ethnic contention impacts communities, including how remembrances of adversity shape social change, collective memory and present-day social movements. Her book we're discussing today, After Genocide, focuses on how physical memorials to past atrocity shape healing, community development and reconciliation for survivors of genocide and genocidal rape. Her most recent project examines bystander intervention, with an emphasis on individuals who conducted acts of rescue during times of social unrest and political violence. Her scholarship has been published in Social Problems, Signs, Social Forces, Deviant Behavior, the Journal for Scientific Study of Religion, Sociological Forum, and Societies Without Borders, among others. Her work has generously been supported by numerous national grants, and she also serves on the United Nations Economic and Social Council and contributes to the UN Commission for the Status of Women held annually at the UN headquarters.You can find out more about Nicole Fox at http://nicolefoxphd.com.Cover photo courtesy of The University of Wisconsin Press.

Heidi Basch-Harod, Executive Director of Women's Voices Now, which uses film as a vehicle to drive social change for global girls' and women's rights. Using the power of film to challenge misrepresentations of females, their mission is to achieve a culture shift powered by impact film, in which communities and institutions reach gender equality, and adapt actions to support systematic advancement. Women's Voices Now holds special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and its work is internationally recognized as impacting six of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). It provides emerging filmmakers with visibility and access to a global platform where they can share essential, authentic stories with international audiences, receive financial support through one of seven awards and a cash prize (totaling 10,000) to invest in their next film project.    

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, told the Security Council that “full compliance with human rights is the best antidote to the inequalities, unaddressed grievances and exclusion which are often at the root of instability and conflict.”Press conference by Guilherme Canela De Souza Godoi, Chief of the section of Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists for the United Nations Economic and Social Council, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2023.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks with reporters on Parliament Hill ahead of his party's weekly caucus meeting. He responds to questions from reporters on Michael Chong's family being targeted by a Chinese diplomat over a Uyghur genocide motion sponsored by the Conservative MP in February 2021. The Conservative leader reiterates his calls for a public inquiry into alleged Chinese interference in Canada's 2019 and 2021 federal elections. He also comments on the new amendments introduced by the federal government for its firearms legislation, Bill C-21.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks briefly with reporters on Parliament Hill as the federal Liberal caucus holds its weekly meeting. He faces questions on when he become aware that a Chinese diplomat was targeting Michael Chong's family over a Uyghur genocide motion sponsored by the Conservative MP in February 2021. The prime minister is also asked about Russia's claims that Ukraine attempted to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack.

We've all heard of the United Nations, but what is it really like to work there? Host Chinny is joined by Carter Cheng, the Program Evaluation Lead at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. We discuss her motivation to join the UN, the intricacies of working within her field, and what it was like working in the field of agricultural technology during her time in the UN Agritech International Trade & Investment Advisory. Lastly, Carter shares crucial advice on how to maximise your potential for such up-and-coming opportunities within her field, and what the future looks like for the United Nations.

News Elder Holland's Health (he won't speak at SUU graduation) $6.2 million was donated to charity in the giving machines this past December. The World Report showed a woman living in rural Moldova who was gifted a pig. The world's largest annual outdoor Easter Pageant is happening in Mesa Arizona right now. A local news reporter said, “We need spaces where we feel welcome just as a fellow human being. Again, I know next to nothing about the LDS church or Muslims or evangelicals or the many other Christian denominations. But I do know that our society is being ripped apart in the name of our faith values and our view of the world. This isn't about any church after all. It's about a moment. It's about the experience of just being with one another. We need more of that – a lot more.” The Church Audit report in General Conference sounded pretty much the same as it always does… that the church followed appropriate accounting procedures. But, we know that there was a large settlement recently focused on some of the church's accounting procedures. Does the fact that this was not mentioned in Conference say anything about how much people should trust these statements? Melissa The church announced 15 new temples in General Conference. You correctly predicted San Jose, and I correctly predicted none in Utah or Idaho. Are there any locations on the list that seem particularly significant? The statistical report is a rare opportunity to see how the church is doing compared to previous years. The Deseret News put out a comparison table. It looks like there is growth of about 1% in most categories, but children of record baptisms are down slightly. Convert baptisms are up 26%. What does this mean? Sister Ana Maria Bonny Hernandez has recently been called as the new representative of the Church to the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in Geneva, Switzerland. Ana Bonny, who is a native from Spain, is the first European member of the Church to hold this assignment. The Committee on the Status of Women group promotes gender equality and the empowerment and defense of the rights of women and girls across the globe. NGO CSW Geneva comprises representatives from some 40 UN-accredited nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who have consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The Church is one of those organizations, through Latter-day Saints Charities. On the topic of gender equality, how strange that only two sisters were asked to speak even though the YW General Presidency was released. It is taking a long time to find jurors in the Lori Vallow Daybell case. I'm shocked at the number of people who have heard nothing about the case. Side note: Should this case be considered “Mormon News”? Mosty national stories call her a member of a Doomsday Cult. Do we really want to tell them that our church is somehow associated with THAT? Isn't this more a fringe movement or an off-shoot of the church like FLDS? Big Deal, Little Deal, No Deal Some family members will be allowed to attend the Lori Vallow Daybell trial April 6 is a really important day in church history. (Maybe do this in big deal, little deal, no deal) A King from Ghana attended General Conference. More about him is in this article (2nd to last paragraph), wikipedia doesn't have much more about him. Is this significant? (Maybe do this in big deal, little deal, no deal) The church gives more to unhoused Utahn's than you think Glenn Beck Good Friday nationwide fast Famous Mormon-Adjacent Individuals (Which former Mouseketeer was raised LDS?) Justin Timberlake Ryan Gosling Brittney Spears Mormons Doing Goodly A woman died after saving her friend's life while climbing a frozen waterfall (Raven Falls) in Duchesne. Author Brandon Sanderson responds kindly to smear This Week in Mormon History 90 Years ago. J. Reuben Clark Jr.

Pavida Pananond is Professor of International Business at Thammasat Business School, Thammasat University, where she has been based upon completing her graduate studies at McGill University in Canada (MBA) and the University of Reading in England (PhD). Her main research interest is global strategy, particularly with reference to how companies in emerging markets develop and expand overseas. She also studies the governance of global industries and the upgrading of emerging market firms in global value chains. Pavida has authored a host of academic articles, book chapters, books, and opinion editorials in media outlets such as Bangkok Post and Nikkei Asia. Her academic publications have appeared in California Management Review and Global Strategy Journal, among others. Her views have also been sought from international media including Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, and Financial Times. Pavida also serves as consultant for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and as editorial board member of several international academic journals, including Global Strategy Journal and Journal of International Business Policy.  Since 2017, she has been one of the Honorary Advisers to Asia New Zealand Foundation, an authority in helping New Zealanders build their knowledge and skills to thrive in Asia. In 2018, she was appointed ASEAN@50 Fellow by New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade to promote closer links between New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Her corporate role includes board membership of Precious Shipping Public Company Limited, Thailand's leading dry bulk carrier. Pavida is a frequent speaker at national and international public forums and conferences. Visit https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/pavida-pananond/ for the original video interview.

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3YVEC0t For the uninitiated, Asia-Pacific is home to a tongue-twister of both old and emerging trade agreements and economic frameworks: ASEAN, APEC, RCEP, CPTPP, IPEF, DEAs. Nevertheless, their role in both regional and global trade environments as well as their potential to shape the trade rulebook offsets their seemingly unimaginative acronyms. Closer to home, the United Kingdom's application to join the CPTPP is certainly a case in point. In this session, Deborah Elms of the Asian Trade Centre will give a rundown of the region's vibrant trade landscape, what it means for governments and businesses both within and outside the region, and how firms should prepare to leverage their potential benefits. Speaker: Dr Deborah Elms is the Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Trade Centre and the President of the Asia Business Trade Association. Concurrently, she is a member of APCO's International Advisory Council, the G20 Trade and Investment Research Network, and the Advisory Board of the Trade and Investment Negotiation Adviser at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. She is also a Research Associate at the New Zealand APEC Study Centre and a Senior Fellow of the Ministry of Trade and Industry Academy of Singapore. Dr Elms has extensive experience working with governments, international organizations, businesses, and the academe and is one of the leading experts on trade policy in the region. She was also active in her past leadership posts in international trade groups having served on the Trade and Investment Council of the World Economic Forum from 2017 to 2019, the International Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Trade Professionals Alliance, as well as being the chair of its Working Group on Trade Policy and Law. Prior to her current role, Dr Elms was head of the Temasek Foundation Centre for Trade and Negotiations and Senior Fellow of International Political Economy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr Elms holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, an MA in international relations from the University of Southern California, and bachelor's degrees from Boston University. Dr Elms frequently appears in the media to provide expert analysis on trade issues in the region and publishes the Talking Trade Blog.

EP: Episode 66 Episode Title: A Music Executive, International Renaissance Man & Political Activist Feat. Cappriccieo Scates Episode Info: In this episode Durell is joined by music executive, music publisher, author, and political activist. Durell and Cappriccieo begin the episode talking about how he got started in music as a drummer and ultimately decided it was best for him to make a pivot to the business side of music and take an executive role providing promo services for several different major record labels. Cappriccieo and Durell talk about his work in different parts of the music industry from his work in the P.R.O. (Performance Rights Organization) space at SESAC, and representing songwriters as a music publisher. Cappriccieo and Durell talk about his work as a member of The Georgia Music Industry Task Force that consulted former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue on the economic impact of music, film, and entertainment during his last term in office. Durell and Cappriccieo talk about his work as the author of two books. He wrote his first book 10 Steps To Successfully Managing Recording Artists in 2004 & The 11th Step I Missed in 2018. Durell and Cappriccieo talk about how much the music industry changed between the time span of him writing both books. Durell talks to Cappriccieo about him being awarded the Phoenix Award and a Proclamation from the Atlanta City Council proclaiming September 22nd 2011 “CAPPRICCIEO SCATES DAY”. Cappriccieo talks about receiving a Doctor Of Philosophy and awarded an Ambassadorial Appointment in Special Consultative Status with The United Nations Economic & Social Council which is the highest level of accreditation that is awarded internationally to all designates. Cappriccieo talks about being a consultant to the Congressional Black Caucus and being the second person in history to receive the Congressional Black Caucus Lapel Pin. Durell and Cappriccieo end the episode talking about him being knighted into the Royal Order Of Knights Of Malta of Africa and the Diaspora and how he prides himself on his personal slogan “Your floor is someone else's ceiling” “Always be appreciative for where you are, but never stop trying to reach the best floor” has helped him achieve success in his career. For more info on Cappriccieo Scates, please visit his social media profile below, Instagram @cappriccieo

EP: Episode 66 Episode Title: A Music Executive, International Renaissance Man & Political Activist Feat. Cappriccieo Scates Episode Info: In this episode Durell is joined by music executive, music publisher, author, and political activist. Durell and Cappriccieo begin the episode talking about how he got started in music as a drummer and ultimately decided it was best for him to make a pivot to the business side of music and take an executive role providing promo services for several different major record labels. Cappriccieo and Durell talk about his work in different parts of the music industry from his work in the P.R.O. (Performance Rights Organization) space at SESAC, and representing songwriters as a music publisher. Cappriccieo and Durell talk about his work as a member of The Georgia Music Industry Task Force that consulted former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue on the economic impact of music, film, and entertainment during his last term in office. Durell and Cappriccieo talk about his work as the author of two books. He wrote his first book 10 Steps To Successfully Managing Recording Artists in 2004 & The 11th Step I Missed in 2018. Durell and Cappriccieo talk about how much the music industry changed between the time span of him writing both books. Durell talks to Cappriccieo about him being awarded the Phoenix Award and a Proclamation from the Atlanta City Council proclaiming September 22nd 2011 “CAPPRICCIEO SCATES DAY”. Cappriccieo talks about receiving a Doctor Of Philosophy and awarded an Ambassadorial Appointment in Special Consultative Status with The United Nations Economic & Social Council which is the highest level of accreditation that is awarded internationally to all designates. Cappriccieo talks about being a consultant to the Congressional Black Caucus and being the second person in history to receive the Congressional Black Caucus Lapel Pin. Durell and Cappriccieo end the episode talking about him being knighted into the Royal Order Of Knights Of Malta of Africa and the Diaspora and how he prides himself on his personal slogan “Your floor is someone else's ceiling” “Always be appreciative for where you are, but never stop trying to reach the best floor” has helped him achieve success in his career. For more info on Cappriccieo Scates, please visit his social media profile below, Instagram @cappriccieo

Ilusi Kesejahteraan di Tengah Krisis Global Oleh. Anggita Safitri, S.Si. (Kontributor NarasiPost.Com) Voice over talent: Maya Rohmah NarasiPost.Com-Dikutip dari MediaIndonesia.com (29/1/2023), Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) telah resmi membuat acara kick offkeketuaan Indonesia untuk ASEAN tahun 2023 di Bundaran HI pada Minggu (29/1). Acara kick off ini adalah kerja sama antara Kementerian Luar Negeri dengan pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Presiden Jokowi menyatakan Asosiasi Negara-Negara Asia Tenggara (ASEAN) masih mempunyai peran penting bagi kawasan dunia di tengah krisis yang terjadi saat ini. “Tetapi, saya meyakini bahwa ASEAN masih penting serta relevan bagi rakyat, kawasan, dan dunia. ASEAN akan terus berkontribusi bagi perdamaian, stabilitas di Indo-Pasifik, menjaga pertumbuhan ekonomi, dan ASEAN matters epicentrum of growth,” imbuh Presiden Jokowi. Menjadi pemimpin bukanlah hal baru bagi Indonesia. Terakhir kali Indonesia juga menjadi pemimpin kerja sama multilateral KTT G20 yang terdiri dari beberapa negara. Pada tahun 2021, Indonesia dipercaya untuk memimpin pembahasan isu-isu pemulihan ekonomi dan kesehatan masyarakat di forum multilateral United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). Selain itu, menjadi ketua dalam suatu hubungan bilateral memang bukanlah hal yang mudah. Tentu saja, harapan membuat sebuah perubahan lebih baik pasti menjadi keinginan. Akan tetapi, menyoroti dari hasil kepemimpinan yang tengah berjalan, harusnya menjadi contoh yang dapat diambil. Karena pada faktanya, keadaan yang tampak akan tetap sama. Krisis ekonomi tidak mengalami perubahan, sehingga tingkat kemiskinan rakyat pun makin meningkat. Bahkan, pada tahun 2023 tercatat 9,57% atau sebanyak 26,36 juta orang berada di bawah garis kemiskinan. Naskah selengkapnya: https://narasipost.com/2023/02/14/ilusi-kesejahteraan-di-tengah-krisis-global/surat-pembaca/ Terimakasih buat kalian yang sudah mendengarkan podcast ini, Follow us on: instagram: http://instagram.com/narasipost Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/narasi.post.9 Fanpage: Https://www.facebook.com/pg/narasipostmedia/posts/ Twitter: Http://twitter.com/narasipost

“Child protection systems are a set of usually government-run services designed to protect children and young people who are underage and to encourage family stability. UNICEF defines[1] a 'child protection system' as: the set of laws, policies, regulations and services needed across all social sectors – especially social welfare, education, health, security and justice – to support prevention and response to protection-related risks. These systems are part of social protection, and extend beyond it. At the level of prevention, their aim includes supporting and strengthening families to reduce social exclusion, and to lower the risk of separation, violence and exploitation. Responsibilities are often spread across government agencies, with services delivered by local authorities, non-State providers, and community groups, making coordination between sectors and levels, including routine referral systems etc.., a necessary component of effective child protection systems. — United Nations Economic and Social Council (2008), UNICEF Child Protection Strategy, E/ICEF/2008/5/Rev.1, par. 12-13.” I endured the Sin City meth labs and the Sin City weed spots of the organized crime aspect of my boyhood. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer discusses the United Nations Economic and Social Council special meeting to expel the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Women's Rights Commission. The remarks on this podcast were originally delivered during a live Q&A session on Instagram ahead of the vote.

Scott Likens leads PwC's New Services and Emerging Tech practice in the United States and stops by TechVibe Radio to detail emerging trends for 2023. With more than 21 years of emerging technology experience, he has helped clients transform their customer experience and enhance their digital operations. Scott has worked across industries with some of the biggest multinational companies to transform their business by applying a local lens to global digital and emerging tech trends. He has expertise using emerging technology and advanced analytics in many areas including e-commerce, digital architecture, mobile technologies and social customer engagement. Scott is a regular speaker at global conferences on emerging technologies. Recent speaking engagements include: The World Economic Forum, AI Summit Hong Kong, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, CBRE Institute, Hong Kong FinTech Week, and the American Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong.

The crossover between water security and climate change is hugely important especially given that the next two COPs are taking place in Africa and the Middle East, both with a history of being water stressed. What should policymakers and negotiators from these regions working on water security focus on at COP27? What does it mean to achieve water security? What are the main barriers or challenges? How is water security relevant to climate change? Carol Chouchani Cherfane – Director, Arab Centre for Climate Change Policies; Cluster Leader, Climate Change and Natural Resource Sustainability, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Sareen Malik – Executive Secretary of the African Civil Society Network for Water and Sanitation (ANEW) and Vice Chair of the Steering Committee for the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Partnership Chair: Antony Froggatt – Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow, Environment and Society Programme, Chatham House This podcast was produced in collaboration with the UK Aid-funded Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) programme which facilitates the use of evidence and learning in international development policy and programming.

Desirée Amanda Bombenon has over 30 years of business operational experience, and strategic leadership. Awarded Ernst & Young 2019 Entrepreneur of the year for the Prairies in Communication Technology, she is a bold innovator, futurist, and purpose driven leader. Her portfolio includes business strategy, social enterprise, and culture building. Desirée is an active member of a number of organizations including YPO (formally Young President's Organization) and International Women's Forum, and has chaired several industry boards and focus groups. She is a past director of the National Music Centre, is a past Chair of YPO Alberta Chapter, and a past Chair of YPO Canada Region. Desirée currently serves as Chair of the Governance & HR committee for the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Chair of Governance, HR & Nominating committee for Children First Canada, and Vice Chair with CAMX, the Canadian Call Management Association. She also currently Chairs the YPO International Wine Network and is an Executive Committee member of the YPO Sustainable Business Network. She is a cohort for Singularity University and a Harvard Alumni for the Advanced Leadership Initiative 2017 Cohort. She is involved in mentorship programs in her community and through Women's Executive Network. Desirée has earned her B Admin, CIAC Certification as a Strategic Leader, and is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and is currently enrolled in Queen's University EMBA program through Smith School of Business. Under Desirée's leadership SureCall has been recognized for numerous industry awards for service excellence, ethics, and integrity. The Centre for Economic and Leadership Development, in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, recognized Desirée as a transformational leader naming her "Champion of Sustainable Development" and honouring her with the ‘Enabler of Vision' award at the 2017 UN Summit in New York. Desirée has pivoted her company into a social enterprise and through the "GoodCall" program has established SureCall as a "purpose driven" organization. SureCall became a Certified Benefits corporation (B Corp) in April of 2019 and was named a ‘Best For the World' Honouree in 2019, rounding out Desirée's vision of utilizing business as a Force for Good. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada's economy. To support Canada's businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest #entrepreneur podcasts and news? Subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter

The oceans and climate change are inextricably connected. On the one hand, the oceans are faced with significant threats posed by climate change through acidification, loss of oxygen, and warming; on the other hand, the oceans play a critical role in regulating the climate system, acting as a major heat and carbon sink, and have been increasingly regarded as a source of solutions to climate change. A range of additional ocean-based climate-altering approaches are being explored to limit climate impacts. For example, introducing additional nutrients to enhance photosynthesis of plankton to remove CO2 from the ocean surface and transport it to the deep ocean; cultivating large-scale seaweed to capture carbon through photosynthesis for sequestration; and brightening marine clouds through spraying sea water to deliver cooling locally. However, all these approaches may present potential benefits and risks. What do the ocean protection community and the climate protection community say about these approaches? Is there a panacea for addressing the major environmental and socio-political challenges that these approaches pose? How can their risks and benefits be weighed up against the expected impacts of climate change? In this C2GDiscuss, three experts share their views on these approaches.  Stefanos Fotiou is director in the Office of Sustainable Development Goals in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. At the time of this recording, he was the director of the Environment and Development Division in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP). Kristina M. Gjerde is is senior high seas advisor to IUCN's Global Marine and Polar Programme (GMPP) and adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, where she teaches international marine law. Joyashree Roy is the inaugural Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Janos Pasztor (moderator) is executive director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G). This interview was recorded on June 1, 2021, and is also available with interpretation into 中文, Español, and Français. For more, please go to C2G's website. 

In this episode we explore the socioeconomic impact of Covid-19, paying special attention to its implications for gender and North-South inequalities. Our guests include Mark Weisbrot, Co-director of the Center for Economic & Policy Research; Mehrinaz El Awady, Leader of the Gender Justice, Population and Inclusive Development Cluster at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; and Julio Gambina, Professor of Political Economics at the National University of Rosario and member of partner research network CLACSO. As a bonus, this episode includes excerpts from interviews with leaders of partner grassroots women's organizations in Gulu, Uganda, conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma and West Virginia University. At the end of the episode, Security in Context's Omar Dahi and Firat Demir discuss the main highlights of the interviews and share their own takes on the content.

The PACIFICA women's organisation in Aotearoa has been granted a special consultative status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). And The Pacific Aftershock Report World Vision warns that development gains across the Pacific region over the past 10 years could be undone due to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Susana Lei'ataua is RNZ Pacific news editor.

The PACIFICA women's organisation in Aotearoa has been granted a special consultative status by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). And The Pacific Aftershock Report World Vision warns that development gains across the Pacific region over the past 10 years could be undone due to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. Susana Lei'ataua is RNZ Pacific news editor.

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, took office on 1 November 2018. Ms. Alisjahbana was Professor of Economics at Universitas Padjadjaran and was Minister of National Development Planning and the Head of the National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Indonesia from 2009 to 2014. In  2016, Ms. Alisjahbana was a member of the High-Level Independent  Team of Advisors to support the ECOSOC Dialogue on the longer-term positioning of the United Nations for the 2030 Agenda. Ms.  Alisjahbana obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of  Washington, USA. 

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the household incomes, savings and debt have been drastically impacted. For many households, the pandemic has led to a depletion of financial assets such as bank deposits, mutual funds investments among others. The Reserve Bank of India estimates show that the household financial savings were at 8.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product or GDP in the third quarter – that is between July to September 2020. This is a major dip compared to the first quarter when the household savings stood at 21% of the GDP and the second quarter when the household savings stood at 10.4 percent of GDP. To understand more about the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on household savings and debt, Kunika Balhotra, Suno India's Research and Communications Officer spoke with Professor Biswajit Nag.  Prof Nag is the Head of Economics Division at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He also served in the Poverty and Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

Maha Yahya (PhD, Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre) Maysoon Pachachi (Film director) give a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford). Iraq and Lebanon: When the Arab world rose up against failed governance in 2011, Lebanon and Iraq stood out as exceptions to the regional trend. Yet by the end of the decade, massed popular demonstrations would demand the fall of the regime in both countries. With their electoral systems, the Iraqis and Lebanese did not confront deeply entrenched dictators. Rather, protestors rose against sectarian politics and called for a new order based on citizenship without reference to religion. Speaker biographies: Maha Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her work focuses broadly on political violence and identity politics, pluralism, development and social justice after the Arab uprisings, the challenges of citizenship, and the political and socio-economic implications of the migration/refugee crisis. Prior to joining Carnegie, Yahya led work on Participatory Development and Social Justice at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA). She was previously regional adviser on social and urban policies at UN-ESCWA and spearheaded strategic and inter-sectoral initiatives and policies in the Office of the Executive Secretary which addressed the challenges of democratic transitions in the Arab world. Yahya has also worked with the United Nations Development Program in Lebanon, where she was the director and principal author of The National Human Development Report 2008–2009: Toward a Citizen’s State. She was also the founder and editor of the MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies. Yahya has worked with international organizations and in the private sector as a consultant on projects related to socioeconomic policy analysis, development policies, cultural heritage, poverty reduction, housing and community development, and postconflict reconstruction in various countries including Lebanon, Pakistan, Oman, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. She has served on a number of advisory boards including the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. Yahya is the author of numerous publications, including most recently Unheard Voices: What Syrian Refugees Need to Return Home (April 2018); The Summer of Our Discontent: Sects and Citizens in Lebanon and Iraq (June 2017); Great Expectations in Tunisia (March 2016); Refugees and the Making of an Arab Regional Disorder (November 2015); Towards Integrated Social Development Policies: A Conceptual Analysis (UN-ESCWA, 2004), co-editor of Secular Publicities: Visual practices and the Transformation of National Publics in the Middle East and South Asia (University of Michigan Press, 2010) and co-author of Promises of Spring: Citizenship and Civic Engagement in Democratic Transitions (UN-ESCWA, 2013). MAYSOON PACHACHI is a London-based filmmaker of Iraqi origin, who was educated in Iraq, the USA and the UK. She studied Philosophy at University College London (BA Hons) and Filmmaking at the London Film School (MA) and worked for many years as a documentary film, TV drama and feature film editor in the UK. Since 1994 she has worked as an independent documentary film director and has just completed a fiction feature film, ‘Our River…Our Sky’ (Arabic title: Kulshi Makoo), which was shot in Iraq in 2019. The project was awarded the IWC Gulf Filmmaker Award for the script, at the Dubai International Film Festival in December 2012. Maysoon has also taught film directing and editing in Britain and Palestine (Jerusalem, Gaza and Ramallah). In 2004, with Londonbased Iraqi director and cameraman, Kasim Abid, she co-founded INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISION COLLEGE, a free-of-charge film-training centre in Baghdad, which ran for 10 years and whose students produced 18 short documentary films, which were shown internationally and received 14 festival prizes. Documentary Films VOICES FROM GAZA (52 mins) Channel 4 (UK) 1990 (producer/editor) Red Ribbon Award, American Film and Video Festival, San Francisco IRAQI WOMEN - VOICES FROM EXILE (52 mins) Channel 4 (UK) 1994 (director/producer) A broad range of Iraqi women, of different ages, religions and political backgrounds, living in London recount their experiences – creating a sense of the modern history of Iraq as experienced by the country’s women. SMOKE 1997 (director/producer/editor) Part of an art installation by prize-winning artist, UK/Brazilian artist Lucia Nogueira. The film is now in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern Gallery, London IRANIAN JOURNEY (83 mins) ZDF/Arte 2000 (director) (First Prize, Kalamata International Documentary Festival, 2000) A documentary road-movie about a 24-hour bus trip with the only woman longdistance bus driver in the Islamic world. LIVING WITH THE PAST: People and Monuments in Medieval Cairo, (52 mins) ECHO Productions (USA) 2001 (director) A portrait of Cairo’s Darb Al Ahmar, a neighborhood in the heart of the old city facing a process of radical change. BITTER WATER, (76 mins) (Legend Productions/Oxymoron Films) 2003 (co-director/producer) Feature-length documentary about 4 generations of refugees in a Palestinian camp in Beirut. RETURN TO THE LAND OF WONDERS (88 mins) 2004 ZDF/Arte (director/producer/camera/editor) Made in 2004 on the first trip back to Baghdad in more than 35 years. OUR FEELINGS TOOK THE PICTURES OPEN SHUTTERS IRAQ (102 mins) (2008) (director/producer/camera/editor) (Jury Special Mention, Arab Film Festival Rotterdam, 2009) 12 women and a 6 year-old girl, travel to Damascus from 5 cities in Iraq. They live together for a month, during which they tell their life stories and learn to take photographs. The remarkable photo-stories they produced about their lives at a difficult and dangerous time in Iraq, were exhibited internationally and were also the subject of a book.

Peace fellas we went in on this episode of Law Class which was a continuation of episode 11 when we went to the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois. (ep 11 wasn't uploaded to the podcast due to bad reception for recording) Tijanie breaks down who the real slave was by reading out the last plea for help in the US Constitution. He also goes into breakdown who the original people of the land are & he also went as far as to give us knowledge on the United Nations Economic & Social Council's Commission on Human Rights. You have to peep the game.

In this episode, Allison Liddle interviews Diana Kenoly. H.E. Ambassador Dr Diana Kenoly serves as a United Nations Ambassador as part United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and is an appointed UN Peace Ambassador with WOLMI’s International Consulting Cabinet (ICC). In September 2020, she was welcomed by the Center for SDG Global Education USA as Global Vice President for Leadership and Strategy. Her area of focus is Global Leadership Strategy. Dr. Diana and Allison discuss how to develop your own leadership skills and abilities. Dr. Diana talks about her journey to becoming an Ambassador for the United Nations and how we all need to step into our strength. Connect with Dr. Diana Kenoly: www.DianaKenoly.org

About Sonika Manandhar: . Sonika Manandhar is a co-founder and CTO of Aeloi Technologies, a fintech platform that mobilizes the grassroots economy to reduce climate change by bridging the last-mile impact financing gap for green microentrepreneurs with digital tokens. She has spent nearly a decade as a software programmer in organizations such as Microsoft Innovation Center in Nepal and always driven towards making technology easy for all literacy levels. Previously, as a digital wallet CEO, she gained insights into improving technology and business models for digital financial services. Her biggest strength today is being able to communicate with the grassroots microentrepreneurs and translate that knowledge in building and improving Aeloi's platform to match the grassroots user's needs. She together with her company has won numerous awards from organizations such as the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Welthungerhilfe. She has been named as one of seven in the world, a Young Champions of the Earth 2019, Asia, and the Pacific by the United Nations Environment Programme and National Geographic Emerging Explorers 2020. Sonika holds a degree in computer engineering from Tribhuvan University, was trained in Silicon Valley at Singularity University and Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Follow givingBack podcast and learn more about tech in Nepal. Love Nepal & Promote Nepali . About Host: . Sanjib Lamichhane Twitter: @sanjib_la IG: @sanjib.lamichhane www.sanjiblamichhane.com . . Download our episodes on: . >> iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/256-givingback-podcast-43067191 >> Radio Public:https://radiopublic.com/givingback-podcast-WkP7YM . >> Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/473BXymyKIGxH0o8PWLuV2 >> Apple Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/givingback-podcast/id1450278650?mt=2&uo=4 >> Google Podcast: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84YjY0OGJjL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz . Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/givingback-podcast >> Overcast:https://overcast.fm/itunes1450278650/givingback-podcast >> Pocket Cast: https://pca.st/S620 >> PodBean: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/6p7a3-99fff/givingBack-Podcast . . Timestamps: 00:20 | Intro 00:35 | National Geographic Society of Explorers 03:30 | How it all started? 08:10 | Story of Safaa Tempo in Kathmandu 11:45 | Micro-entrepreneurs and Aeloi Connection 12:50 | Digital Tokens for a layman 15:00 | sms based token service instead of an app? 17:20 | Loan mobilization and assurance 19:40 | Licensing 21:30 | Creating a solution with technical knowledge 26:30 | We Grow and Bijuli power 29:45 | Credit History and financial discipline 34:00 | Trolley bus in Nepal 41:07 | Leaders around us 44:00 | Next generation of women leaders in tech 47:15 | attending a Hackathon (funny anecdote) 51:55 | Mentorships and awards from International forums 56:13 | Power button. . Please drop a comment telling us how you liked the podcast. You can let us know how we can make it better for you and even suggest new topics you'd like to be discussed or even better -- suggest a guest! Hmm.. not feeling like dropping a comment? Here's an anonymous survey you can fill. We do not need your name and email. https://forms.gle/EoBso3HMNAxzxjgS6 . . Thanks for supporting us. Subscribe to us whenever you get your podcast. Visit www.merogb.com for more information. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/givingbackpodcast/support

This episode of Life of A Person series is an exciting conversation with Smriti Sharma who is a professional in the field of public policy consultation and has devoted her time to various prestigious organisations such as Apple, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), United Nations Economic and Social Comission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and Global Chain Centre of Duke University. Apart from this she has also worked as a Senior News anchor and Assistant Editor with CNBC Awaaz and NDTV Profit prior to her career in Public Policy. So tune in now and listen to this amazing conversation with Smriti Sharma and Pranav Hoon as the host to know a little more about her!

Jhannel Tomlinson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography and Geology, UWI, Mona whose research for the past four years, has sought to assess the capacity of Community-based Organizations in eastern Jamaica to effectively support climate action. In addition to her academic work, she is a youth climate activist who is a member of the Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN), Jamaica, Country representative for YPARD Jamaica, and co- founder of Young People for Action on Climate Change (YPACC). Her involvement in climate action both through academia and activism, has further led to her being selected as: - A Youth Innovator to attend the Global Landscapes forum in Paris (2015) where she contributed to the development of an online assessment tool for landscape professionals. - The Jamaican Youth delegate both for COP24 in Poland and COP25 in Madrid (2018/19) where she participated in panel discussions and youth-led events. -Committee member for the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum (2019) where she contributed to the design of the youth blast and facilitated a training session on Youth, Climate Advocacy and Policy. Her passion in taking a stand against climate change, helps to showcase that the youth have a critical role to play and if we all work together.

Rathinavani 90.8 CR | World Coconut Day | September 2, 2020 | Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) | Expert Talk by the president of Kurichi Kulam Pathukappu Iyyakam| Deepam Swaminathan | Coimbatore | India | World Coconut Day was established in the year 2009. The day is observed to commemorate the formation day of APCC which functions under the aegis of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). The Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC or Cocommunity) is an intergovernmental organization of states in Asia-Pacific that produce coconuts. The purpose of the APCC is "to promote, coordinate and harmonize all activities of the coconut industry".[1] In Bangkok on 12 December 1968, the Agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community was concluded and signed by India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. After the treaty was ratified by these states, the Asian Coconut Community came into existence on 9 September 1969 with headquarters in Jakarta. When states outside Asia began to be admitted to the organization, its name was changed to the "Asian and Pacific Coconut Community". The member states of the APCC account for over 90 percent of the world's coconut production and coconut exports. Member states of the APCC and the dates they joined are as follows (an asterisk indicates that the state has ratified the original 1968 Agreement):

The data official statistical offices collect and generate are of vital importance to the work of national governments and international organizations. However, the work of collecting national data can be difficult and at times can be politicized, and as with so much over the last several months, the COVID pandemic has only shown how important national statistics are as well as how fraught their interpretation can be. Official statistics is a focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Gemma Van Halderen. Gemma Van Halderen is Director of the Statistics Division in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Prior to joining ESCAP in June 2018, Gemma was a member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Executive Team, leading the transformation of ABS’ statistical programs and implementation of modernized statistical capabilities. She was responsible for transformation strategies and programs for data sharing, data integration and micro-data access including ABS’ contribution to the Australian Government’s Data Integration Partnership for Australia. Among her many responsibilities at different levels, in 2017, Gemma was seconded to the Commonwealth Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to prepare the Government’s response to a Productivity Commission Inquiry into Data Availability and Use.

Kaveh Zahedi is the Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP). He oversees ESCAP’s economic, social and environmental programmes and the overall implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Prior to this, Kaveh worked at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the Regional Director and Representative for Asia and the Pacific and Deputy Director of the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, overseeing work on the green economy, resource efficiency and climate change. He speaks to us about the challenge of fundraising, creating coalitions and partnerships of the willing, policy level advocacy and cause and effect, adaptability, the coronavirus pandemic, investing in social safety nets, building resiliency, engineering change towards sustainability, UN structures and intersectoral approaches, demonstrating impact, the UN reform process, regional level cooperation, being impatient for change, the role of the private sector, ICT for development, rejecting a tolerance for inequality and much more. He joins us from Bangkok, Thailand.

We fell in love with Ona! What a dynamic and beautiful woman (incredible fashion sense!) Professor Ona is the Female Civility Icon and Founder of "National Female Civility Day" which is celebrated every year on the 17th of September and is in conjunction with her Female Civility Global Initiative. She has has received and World Greatness Award and Inducted into the World Book of Greatness as a Icon of Greatness with Greatness University in London, UK. Professor Ona served as a panelist on "The Role that Civility and Leadership in Social Protection at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) and will serve again for (CSW64) sitting on a panel for conversations for a Peaceful and Inclusive Society. Professor Ona has collected and continues to seek data to identify the internal and external barriers that exist for women because of social, economic, cultural, and traditional barriers, while implementing strategies for women to overcome. Professor Ona is an appointed representative for the Advancement of Women and Girls with the Peace Society of Kenya, which is a non-governmental organization with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. ​ Professor Ona is a Founding member on the Board of Directors for YOU! Empower a non-profit organization designed to provide disadvantaged women and families with the tools and resources to empower themselves towards a self-sustainable lifestyle. ​ Professor Ona is an advocate for women and an authorized Civility Spokesperson with the Civility Speakers Bureau and the author of motivations books, workbooks ,and Case Studies to help women gain confidence, equality, advancement, and stability. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dr. Piers Gooding is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Social Equity Institute and the University of Melbourne Law School. His work focuses on disability law and mental health politics. He is the author of 'A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities' (2017. Piers has worked with a range of international organisations and agencies, including the UN Special Rapporteur for the Rights of People with Disabilities, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of the Asia Pacific. Piers was previously a research fellow at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Piers holds degrees from the University of Melbourne and Monash University. He has received a Discovery Early Career Research Award from the Australian Research Council, and was awarded a Menzies Australian Bicentennial Fellowship to serve at Kings College London.

Ambassador Sichan Siv, former ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council from 2001 to 2006, tells the harrowing tale of how he escaped the Cambodian killing fields to the United States in 1976. Once in the U.S., he worked a variety of jobs and received a Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University to fulfill his American Dream. He tells the story of how he first met George H. W. Bush and went on to serve in his presidential administration. Sichan shares his admiration for George H. W. Bush and says he was "truly the best one term president in our history."

Marshall is the co-founder and Managing Director at Upstream Tech, a public benefit corporation that partners with nonprofit and for-profit organizations working towards ecological restoration, supply chain sustainability, and energy efficiency improvements goals, among others. Upstream Tech’s goal is to help translate data into better, faster resource use decisions. They use satellite data, sophisticated data processing, and easy-to-use applications to supercharge their customer’s conservation impact. Marshall oversees the product development, growth and partnerships at Upstream Tech. Prior to co-founding Upstream Tech, he worked in a number of early- and late-stage technical companies that have collectively raised over $100M USD in venture capital. He was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy and has served on panels for the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Marshall holds a BA in Computer Science from Tufts University. In today’s episode we discuss: Upstream Tech overview and history Marshall’s background prior to Upstream Tech, including what led him to care about climate, how he went about making the transition, and what led him to this opportunity specifically Some projects they have worked on Upstream Tech’s acquisition by Natel Energy and what the combined entity can do together What are some other levers in the climate fight beyond Upstream Tech Marshall’s advice for anyone looking to make a similar transition Links to topics discussed in today’s episode: Marshall twitter: https://twitter.com/marsh?lang=en Marshall Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marshallmoutenot/ Upstream Tech: https://upstream.tech/ Natel Energy: https://www.natelenergy.com/ I hope you enjoy the show! You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.

This episode is part four of a special summer miniseries on the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students. You can listen to part one here, part two here, and part three here. The 13th World Festival of Youth and Students was held in the North Korean capital almost thirty years ago next month. A global gathering of international Communist Party-affiliated youth organizations, it represented something of a last hurrah for a world that was soon to disappear in a storm of revolution and unrest. Hosted by North Korea — in large part as a response to the South's successful hosting of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games — the festival cost the country billions and saw thousands of international students descend on Pyongyang for an event devoted to “Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship.” The International Union of Students, headquartered in communist Czechoslovakia, was a primary organizing body of the 1989 World Festival of Youth and Students in Pyongyang, and as such a closer look at its role can provide us with a unique interpretation of the event from an institutional perspective. For the first time, Dr. Vladimir Hlasny has accessed and synthesized Cold War-era archives dating back to the 1950s to better understand the union, its approach to the festival, how it saw Pyongyang's execution of the event, and its place in the communist world. Dr. Vladimir Hlasny of economics at Ewha Women's University in Seoul. His research is normally in the areas of welfare economics, labor economics, and industrial organization. In 2015 he served as an economic affairs officer at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in Beirut. About the podcast: The “North Korea News Podcast” is a weekly podcast hosted exclusively by NK News, covering all things DPRK: from news to extended interview with leading experts and analysts in the field and insight from our very own journalists. Featured image: DPRK Today

Based on current trends, women won’t have equal representation in governments until 2134. This is so crucial because when it comes to organizing, strategizing and prioritizing, women have different values than men that first and foremost focus on the health of people and the planet over profits. Things like re-routing a bus route to pass by a women’s health clinic and schools. Or putting profits back into the local business and making sure all basic needs of the community are met and sustainable before considering other areas of focus. In my interview with Jessica Williamson, the North American Regional Director for World Information Transfer of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, we discuss:What exactly is ecofeminism.What role gender equality plays towards sustainable development in developing countries.Why the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 is the most important out of all the other 16 SDGs. How to tell a story to connect issues to individuals, creating change in the world. Jessica also shares her personal story that’s made her so passionate about gender equality and how it fuels her mission every day to support all women in rising up to the challenges of climate change, equal opportunity to lead and basic human rights for all. In the show she references:WIT World Information TransferVandana ShivaMaria MilesZaproot is the work Jessica was doing when she was 21!If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a rating and review, just scroll down under the podcast and you’ll see a spot to “write a review”. The world needs more conversations like this being shared. Feel free to share on social media or email a friend as well!

Jane Barratt in an interview with Ross Upshur reflects on different aspects of elderly care and explains how it could be improved in Canada. In the interview, she gives an example of other countries and how they have been successful in laying the foundation for a more robust elderly care. In this interview, Jane Barratt, the Secretary General of the International Federation (IFA) on Ageing, describes how her interest in roams of care and allocation of services engaged her in the area of ageing and caregiving. She later highlights the sources of the problems that impact decision-making around the allocation of services and says they arise from different understanding and outlooks in the conversations among different health sectors although they all seem to be talking about the same topic. On equitable allocation of services, she exemplifies Australia’s age-care system and compares it to that of Canada and how they are different in this respect. Jane Barratt is one of the IFA’s 15 international directors. Currently, she runs IFA’s Toronto-based office in Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, Sinai Health System. Jane has over 35 years of public and private sector experience in ageing and disability, aged care, public health and community services. Dr. Barratt tries to strengthen relationships between government, NGOs, academia, and industry to influence policy and improve the quality of life of older people. She is a strong contributor to international dialogue on the social, political, cultural and physical environments that impact the lives and human rights of older people. Dr. Barratt represents the IFA at the United Nations Economic and Social Council. For a full bio, please follow this link. Dr. Barratt is a Churchill Fellow, and she was recently awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in Canada in recognition of her efforts to enhance understanding of ageing, engage governments and the private sector, and improve the quality of life of older people. To listen to a public lecture by Jane Barratt published on the University of Western Australia website, please follow this link. The lecture is titled: How to Age Well: creating age-friendly environments to support healthy ageing. To view a selection of presentations by Dr. Jane Barratt, please follow this link.

Yoong Yoong Lee, Director of the ASEAN Secretariat's Community Affairs Directorate sat down with us on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit last month to share his experience in promoting regional integration and engagement in Southeast Asia. We talked about the differences in attitudes of youth towards ASEAN across the region, the successes of ASEAn so far and the internal workings of ASEAN as an organisation. Before his current role, Yoong Yoong held various positions in Yamato Asia, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Economic Development Board in Singapore, and various other portfolios in ASEAN including as Head of Infrastructure.

Hello once again! Welcome back to a brand new episode of She`s An Artist! This week our topic is Creating Social Change With Art and I`m talking to 2 amazing women on this subject. First up Jessica Blank, a multi hyphenate filmmaker, playwright, director, author, actor, and story trainer working at the intersections of storytelling, entertainment and social change. As a filmmaker, playwright, director and actor Jessica has worked Off-Broadway, on network television, and in Hollywood; her groundbreaking, multi-award-winning documentary theater work has helped shape the genre. As an activist and change maker, she works with progressive candidates and nonprofit leaders to help them use the power of empathy and narrative to radically expand their reach. Did I mention shes also a Mom and her writing partner is her husband! For all things Jessica head over to Jessicacblank.com. Women’s Voices Now (WVN), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, uses the medium of film to advocate for global women’s rights. WVN carries out its mission with an annual online film festival, a free streaming archive of international women’s rights based films, educational programs, screening events, and multimedia workshops. Using the medium of film, we foster awareness of women’s rights issues and provide clear channels of action that encourage our viewers to join the global women’s rights movement. With our Fiscal Sponsorship and Mentorship Programs, WVN supports the important work of filmmakers striving to create impactful and timely cinema. WVN has held special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 2017. . Want to enter the festival? Got to Womensvoicesnow.org for more info! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shes-an-artist/support

José Antonio Ocampo (Banco de la República, Colombia & Columbia University) Inaugural SOAS Central Banking Lecture: Essential Reforms for a Sound 21st Century International Monetary System. The inaugural SOAS Central Banking Lecture will be delivered by Professor José Antonio Ocampo. The SOAS Central Banking Lectures have been established by the SOAS Department of Economics to provide a forum for distinguished scholars and practitioners to address topics of broad interest in the areas of central banking and international monetary and financial policy. The lecture will scrutinise the need for and the challenges of reforming the international monetary system. The 2007-09 global financial crisis, as the emerging market crises of the late twentieth century, show that the ad hoc international monetary system that evolved out of the crisis of the Bretton Woods arrangements in the early 1970s needs fundamental reforms. This lecture, based on José Antonio Ocampo’s recent book, Resetting the International Monetary (Non)System, will analyse the areas in need of fundamental reform: the global reserve system, macroeconomic policy cooperation, prevention and management of balance of payments crises, and governance of the system. Professor Ocampo’s lecture will be followed by comments by Stephany Griffith-Jones (Columbia University) and Ulrich Volz (SOAS). Spearker biography: José Antonio Ocampo is Member of the Board of Banco de la República, Colombia’s central bank, and Chair of the Committee for Development Policy of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). He is also Professor (on leave) at the School of International and Public Affairs, co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. He has occupied numerous positions at the United Nations and his native Colombia, including UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and Minister of Finance, Minister of Agriculture and Director of the National Planning Office of Colombia. He has received numerous academic distinctions, including the 2012 Jaume Vicens Vives award of the Spanish Association of Economic History for the best book on Spanish or Latin American economic history, the 2008 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and the 1988 Alejandro Angel Escobar National Science Award of Colombia. He has published extensively on macroeconomic theory and policy, international financial issues, economic and social development, international trade, and Colombian and Latin American economic history. Speakers: José Antonio Ocampo (Banco de la República, Colombia & Columbia University), Stephany Griffith-Jones (Columbia University) and Ulrich Volz (SOAS). Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts

Brook Bello: Tech and Tech Policy Solutions to End Sex Trafficking (Ep. 160) Brook Bello joined Joe Miller to discuss how tech policies can help end sex trafficking. Bio Dr. Brook Bello (@BrookBello) is Founder and CEO/ED of More Too Life, Inc., -- an anti-sexual violence, human trafficking and youth crime prevention organization that was named by United Way Worldwide as one of the best in the nation. A sought-after international speaker and champion against human trafficking, Dr. Bello has been recognized with countless achievement awards, fellowships and appointment, she was recently named a Google Next Gen Policy Leader, with the ability to learn from leading Google executives and other leaders in profound aspects that deal with world issues in relation to tech and tech policy. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 44thPresident of the United States and the White House in December 2016. She also received the advocate of the year in the state of Florida from Florida Governor Rick Scott and Florida Attorney Pam Bondi’s Human Trafficking Council. Dr. Bello is also the author of innovative root cause focused successful curricula such as, RJEDE™ (Restorative Justice End Demand Education) -- a court appointed and volunteer course for violators of sexual violence, prostitution and human trafficking prevention in Miami/Dade, Sarasota and Manatee counties. In addition, LATN™ and LATN D2 (Living Above the Noise) educational mentoring curriculum for victims to prevent sexual violence and human trafficking. She holds a Masters and PH.D in pastoral clinical counseling and accreditation in pastoral clinical and temperance based counseling. Her bachelor’s is in biblical studies. She also holds two honorary doctorates -- one in humane letters, theology and biblical studies from the Covenant Theological Seminary and Richmond Virginia Seminary. Her dissertation defends the urgency in spirituality in mental health and the profound pain caused by shame. Bello is also a licensed chaplain and ambassador with the Canadian Institute of Chaplains and Ambassadors (CICA)—the only university accredited by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN-ECOSOC). She is also an alum of the Skinner Leadership Institute’s Masters Series of Distinguished Leaders.  Dr. Bello was chosen 1 of 10 national heroes in a series by Dolphin Digital Media and United Way Worldwide called, The Hero Effect.” Resources More Too Life Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman Life is Not Complicated, You Are by Carlos Wallace News Roundup Tech stocks tank following earnings reports Tech stocks led a slide on major indexes as Amazon posted a two-day decline Monday, eliminating some $127 billion from its market value, according to the Wall Street Journal. Amazon actually posted a $2.88 billion profit in the 3rd quarter—11 times last year’s figure—but its sales increased by only 29%, falling about half a billion dollars shy of the average analyst estimate of $57.1 billion. Alphabet too missed analyst estimates by about $310 million, coming in with $33.74 billion in revenue in the third quarter, which was up by 21% over last year. At Twitter, active monthly users declined, but revenue was up 29% to 650 million for the third quarter. Twitter attributed the user decline to its purging of suspicious accounts. Tesla also reported strong earnings, with $312 million in profits on $6.8 billion in revenue. As for Snap – it looks like Facebook’s Instagram stories is eroding the platform, although Snap beat estimates, however slightly. Snap lost about 2 million users since the second quarter, but its net loss was two cents per share less than expected, and it also had more revenue than analysts expected -- $297.6 million – which was about $14 million more than analysts’ expectations. N.Y. Times reports that Trump uses iPhones spied on by Russia/China The New York Times reported that President Trump uses unsecured iPhones to gossip with colleagues that Chinese and Russian spies routinely eavesdrop on to gather intelligence. President Trump denies the report saying that he only uses a government phone and, in a Tweet, said the New York Times report is “sooo wrong”. Facebook identifies Iranian misinformation campaign Facebook identified an Iranian misinformation campaign which led it to delete 82 pages the company says were engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior”. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher said the pages had over 1 million followers. Google paid ‘Father of Android’ $90 million to leave the company following a sexual misconduct allegation The New York Times reported last week in an investigative report that Google paid Android creator Andy Rubin some $90 million dollars in 2014 when he left the company following sexual misconduct allegations. Google released Rubin with praises from Larry Page even though an internal investigation found the allegations credible, according the New York Times. The newspaper reports that Google similarly protected 2 other executives. Rubin has denied the allegations and, in a letter to Google’s employees, Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote that Google has fired some 48 employees for sexual harassment since 2016. U.S. launches election protection cyber operation against Russia U.S. cybercommand has launched a first-of-its-kind mission against Russia to prevent election interference. The initiative followed a Justice Department report released Friday outlining Russia’s campaign of “information warfare”. Alleged Pittsburgh shooter repeatedly posted violent content on social media prior to mass murder Before he allegedly murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, including a 97-year-old holocaust survivor, Robert Bowers allegedly posted hateful and violent content on social media numerous times on Facebook, Twitter, and the alt-right website Gab -- but he still wasn’t on the radar of law enforcement. Joyent, the web hosting platform that hosted Gab, has since banned Gab from using its platform, knocking it offline. Kevin Roose has more in the New York Times. U.S. restricts exports to Chinese semiconductor firm Fujian Jinhua The U.S. has decided to restrict exports to Chinese semiconductor firm Fujian Jinhua. The Trump administration says the company stole intellectual property from U.S.-based Micron Technology. The rationale is that if Fujian Jinhua supplies chips to Micron, there’s a risk that the Chinese-manufactured chips would edge out those manufactured by American competitors. President Trump signs U.S. spectrum strategy President Trump has signed a memo directing the Commerce Department to develop a spectrum strategy to prepare for 5G wireless. Mr. Trump has also created a Spectrum Task Force to evaluate federal spectrum needs and how spectrum can be shared with private companies. UK fines Facebook £500,000 for data violations Finally, the UK has fined Facebook just £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica-related data violations. That’s a little over $640,000— The Guardian notes that Facebook brought in some $40.7 billion last year. The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office found that Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of some 1 million Facebook users in the UK via loopholes on Facebook’s platform that allowed developers to access the data of Facebook’s users without their consent.

This panel provided a launch for 'Inside the black box of political will', which presents key findings from the past ten years of the Developmental Leadership Program’s (DLP) work. The panel also presents highlights from DLP’s recent research on the role of politics and power in developmental change, with case studies from Myanmar and Fiji, as well as a practitioner’s perspective. Panellists: Michael Wilson, DFAT (Chair) David Hudson, DFID/University of Birmingham Tait Brimacombe, La Trobe University Anna Naupa, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia The 2018 Australasian Aid Conference was held at Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, on 13-14 February, and was organised by the Development Policy Centre in partnership with The Asia Foundation.

Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the NYU School of Medicine and President of the nonprofit, Bioethics International. She is also the Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard, an index that ranks all new drugs and large pharmaceutical companies on their ethics and public health performance to help recognize good practices in companies, improve trustworthiness, and incentivize change where needed.  Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Miller was based at Harvard University. Dr. Miller currently serves on NYU's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Stem Cell Research Oversight IRB, as well as the J&J-NYU Compassionate-Use Advisory Committee (monitor). Previously, she served on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Task Force for Pediatric Emergency Mass Critical Care, the American Medical Association's (AMA) Advanced Disaster Life Support Education Consortium, as a consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and on the PCORI-NIH Collaboratory. A prolific writer, Dr. Miller has authored over 35 articles in publications including Nature Medicine and Health Affairs. She was a Fox News pundit from 2009 to 2012 and remains a news commentator, frequently featured on CBS news, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Forbes, and NPR. Dr. Miller's current work explores the ethics and governance of new drugs that are researched, developed, marketed, priced, and made accessible to patients globally. She also specializes in the ethics of data sharing. 00:00 EP148: Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, Bioethics International and Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard. 01:00 The Good Pharma Scorecard rankings for 2017. 01:40 Two 100% transparent pharma companies. 02:20 Two stats that prove that Pharma companies are improving. 03:00 Industry improvements on patient trials. 03:25 Ninety-six percent of all patient trials are available to the public. 03:45 Where there wasn't a significant improvement in disclosure in pharma.

Khalid Abu-Ismail (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia) The Event was organised by the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and the Department of Economics, SOAS Abstract: Before the 2010 upheaval, the Arab region achieved some degree of progress on basic human development. But it was unable even then to significantly advance decent employment or productivity. After 2010, the region has confronted multiple social and economic problems. The decline in oil prices has exerted fiscal pressures even on oil-rich exporting countries. The UNESCWA Report on fiscal policies for structural transformation and human development in Arab countries focuses on the fiscal policy responses by Arab countries to their worsening conditions since 2010. Its central argument is that ‘business-as-usual’ governance systems and economic policies cannot address the region’s multiple and growing challenges. Instead, the answer lies in a mixture of good economic governance and fiscal policies that can induce more rapid economic growth along with structural transformation. Only then could jobs, especially jobs at decent wages, be created at a scale sufficient for sustained poverty reduction and human development. Speaker biography: Khalid Abu-Ismail is a Chief of Economic Development and Poverty Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA). His research is on topics related to Economic Development, Poverty and Human Development, Macroeconomic Policy, Inequality and International Migration. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from New School for Social Research, New York. Abu-Ismail is affiliated with the Faculty of Economics at the Lebanese American University. Speaker(s): Khalid Abu-Ismail (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia), Terry McKinley (SOAS) Organiser: London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and the Department of Economics, SOAS Event Date: 26 October 2017 Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast

Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the NYU School of Medicine and President of the nonprofit, Bioethics International. She is also the Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard, an index that ranks all new drugs and large pharmaceutical companies on their ethics and public health performance to help recognize good practices in companies, improve trustworthiness, and incentivize change where needed.  Prior to joining NYU, Dr. Miller was based at Harvard University. Dr. Miller currently serves on NYU's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and Stem Cell Research Oversight IRB, as well as the J&J-NYU Compassionate-Use Advisory Committee (monitor). Previously, she served on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Task Force for Pediatric Emergency Mass Critical Care, the American Medical Association's (AMA) Advanced Disaster Life Support Education Consortium, as a consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and on the PCORI-NIH Collaboratory. A prolific writer, Dr. Miller has authored over 35 publications, including for Nature Medicine and Health Affairs. She was a Fox News pundit from 2009 to 2012 and remains a news commentator, frequently featured on CBS news, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Forbes, and NPR. Dr. Miller's current work explores the ethics and governance of new drugs that are researched, developed, marketed, priced, and made accessible to patients globally. She also specializes in the ethics of data sharing. 00:00 The growing public distrust in pharmaceutical companies. 02:30 How the Pharma industry might be driving public distrust. 03:15 Combatting the image that Pharma companies put profit before people. 04:00 Does it matter if people distrust pharma? 05:00 How to build a more trustworthy industry. 05:10 The difference between “Trust” and “Trustworthy.” 06:20 The possible connection between distrust and adherence issues. 08:00 Creating the first Ethics Chain for the Pharma industry. 08:40 The Key Ethics Concerns stakeholders have about the Pharmaceutical Industry. 09:15 The main concerns around how a Clinical Trial is designed. 10:25 The limited sample of research subjects for Clinical Trials. 11:00 Conducting a large number of Clinical Trials outside of the U.S. in emerging economies. 12:45 Concerns about Clinical Trial Transparency. 14:20 Concerns about Drug marketing. 14:35 Concerns and distrust with Drug Pricing and Accessibility. 17:50 The Triple Bottom Line. 18:10 Thinking more holistically and more long-term. 18:30 How the Good Pharma Scorecard incentivizes more sustainable and ethical performances. 20:20 Where you can find the scorecard - www.bioethicsinternational.org 24:30 EP137 - Dr. Josh Luke - Generational Behavior. 26:20 The stepwise approach to system intervention. 28:25 A way forward for the Pharma Industry, post-Shkreli. 29:50 Being committed to ethics and patient-centricity. 31:35 You can learn more at www.bioethicsinternational.org and view the Good Pharma Scorecard.

Austin Ruse is President of The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), a United States-based research institute that works with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Organization of American States exclusively on international life and family issues. He had traveled all around the world to lecture on UN matters. His new book, Fake Science, offers a battle plan for taking science back from the hysterical and deeply unscientific left, and reveals how: • Fake science about hunger is feeding the rich—the CEO of Feeding America gets paid $650,000 a year! • Baseless hysteria about GMO’s still traps millions of the world’s poor in a vitamin A deficiency that often leads to blindness – and even death • Global warming is real – and it’s a good thing • “Peer review” is a scam: cheating authors review their own studies, and research that challenges the artificial left wing “consensus” is blackballed • The state of California has slapped cancer warnings on a naturally occurring compound that you’d have to eat 182 pounds of French Fries every day to get cancer from. Ruse was a longtime contributor to Breitbart, a founding columnist at The Catholic Thing, and is currently a columnist at Crisis Magazine. He received his B.A. in journalism and political science from the University of Missouri, and an Honorary Doctorate from the Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Today's episode is with Vanessa Shaw. Vanessa is an experienced consultant, trainer and active speaker at leadership conferences. She runs Human Side of Tech as well as the Culture Summit and is on a mission to help organizations and teams collaborate virtually in a way that builds trust and fosters innovation so that they can impact positive change with their work. Vanessa helps clients to navigate the digital revolution by implementing the right technology for their team. She then helps them to create virtually team environments that bring to life the human side of tech. During her career she has facilitated projects in the US, Latin America, Europe and SE Asia with multinationals, non-profits, the United Nations Economic and Social Council, White House, and over 50 universities. In our episode, we discussed her start as a consultant, tips to be more culturally competent, why gender equality is important and the mission behind her two movements. Resources Mentioned In The Episode Human Side Of Tech... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Why did a UN agency publish a report that categorised Israel as an apartheid state? Rima Khalaf was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia until March 2017. She commissioned a report which accused Israel of systematically implementing apartheid policies and promptly resigned from her UN post when the Secretary General refused to accept the work. What were her motives?

Why did a UN agency publish a report that categorised Israel as an apartheid state? Rima Khalaf was Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia until March 2017. She commissioned a report which accused Israel of systematically implementing apartheid policies and promptly resigned from her UN post when the Secretary General refused to accept the work. What were her motives?

About This Weeks Guest Vanessa Shaw Vanessa Shaw is an experienced consultant, trainer and active speaker at leadership conferences. She is a work futurist on a mission to help organizations and teams collaborate virtually in a way that builds trust and fosters innovation so that they can impact positive change in their work. Vanessa helps clients to navigate the digital revolution by implementing the right technology for their team. She then helps them to create virtually team environments that bring to life the human side of tech. She has a Bachelor's in Communications from the University of California, Santa Cruz. And graduated top 10% national honors. During her career, she has facilitated projects in the US, Latin America, Europe and SE Asia with multinationals, non-profits, the United Nations Economic and Social Council, White House, and over 50 universities. Originally from the Silicon Valley, Vanessa Shaw has lived abroad since 2011, currently enjoying Barcelona.   You can find her on twitter and the web at Human Side of Tech. Her tips to become more culturally competent are: Be resilient. When something is happening in an intercultural setting, that you don't like or don't understand, be able to get up and start over. Be creative when you're dealing with people Smile :) Better yet, laugh! What's the funny side of what just happened? Interview Links Links that are mentioned in this episode: Website: http://humansideoftech.org Email: vanessa@humansideoftech.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/humansideoftech Build Your Cultural Competence In the Culture Matters podcast, we interview real people with real stories. Every other week there is a guest with broad international experience and lots of cultural insights. I interview real people with real stories. To subscribe directly using iTunes or Stitcher, Click here, or here (or click any of the images below). How To Get In Touch With Culture Matters I'd love for you to get in touch. There are a couple of ways you can do this: Via this website: Just use the “Ask Your Question” tab on the right of the screen and leave a voicemail Email me at chris.smit@culturematters.com Send me a Tweet: @chrissmit Finally Thank you so much for taking the time to read this far, and to listen to my Podcast. I hope you will be back for the next episode of the Culture Matters Podcast!

The UU-UNO is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status at the United Nations Department of Public Information. The UU-UNO uses its consultative status on behalf of the UUA in the United Nations Economic and Social Council, an organization offering a forum for the discussion of economic and social issues. The office collaborates with other UN NGOs on particular issues, such as ending the genocide in Darfur. Bruce Knotts became the UU-UNO’s executive director in January 2008 and his chief areas of focus are human rights, with an emphasis on women’s rights and GLBT rights; ending genocide, particularly in Darfur; and working for peace. Mr. Knotts will give an overview of the current work of our U.N. Office.

Presentation by Nadim Khouri, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Western Asia at the IFPRI Policy Seminar on Food Security and Development in the Arab World: In Transition? on November 7, 2012, Washington, DC.