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Allan Rosenfield, Hossein Afzali and Two Organizations Honored with 2007 United Nations Population Award

Allan Rosenfield, Dean and Professor of Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Hossein Malek Afzali, Deputy Minister for Research and Technology, Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education, and two institutions, Algeria’s National Population Committee and Malaysia’s National Population and Family Development Board, have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.


Horizon International Makes Its Television Programs On Solutions Available On The Web

Horizon’s series of television programs entitled “One Second Before Sunrise” that bring to audiences stories of promising solutions to the world's most pressing problems are now available on the Web at www.horizoninternationaltv.org


Horizon Intern Maan Barua Receives OIL India Young Achievers Award

The Assam Tribune announced that Maan Barau, a Horizon Intern who has launched the Butterfly Conservation Initiative with the assistance of Horizon International was one of five recipients to win Oil India Young Achievers Award on February 4, 2007.


United Nations World Tourism Organization Starts Internet Network Platform for Socially Conscious Travellers

Socially conscious travellers will now be able to use a secure Internet network to exchange information on ethical tourism that seeks to promote sustainable development and help poor communities around the world under a new project of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).


Brazilian Football Great Ronaldinho Kicks-Off Institute to Help Poor Youth Through Sport

The UN is cooperating with the institute and will provide technical advice and assist in recruiting professional staff before the programme begins next March, as it shows the power of sport to help countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of targets to slash poverty and other global ills by 2015, the world body said.


Children from Around the World Invited to Participate in UNEP’s 16th International’s Painting Competition on the Environment: The Theme is Climate Change

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in cooperation with the Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE), Bayer and the Nikon Corporation, invite children from around the world to express their thoughts on climate change through the medium of art by participating in the16th International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment.  


UNEP’s Atlas Powerpoints Released for Educational Purposes

One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment  provides a comprehensive, visual presentation of scientifically verifiable information about changes in the global environment, shown through state-of-the-art remote sensing technology.


Nine-year-old Lau Tsun Ming from China Wins First Prize in UNEP Children's Painting Competition

Sophisticated images of water and life, of desert biodiversity and of deforestation and environmental degradation dominate this year's International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment. Winners were announced on World Environment Day.


FAO GeoNetwork Provides Free and Open Source Software Based Spatial Data Management System

“The challenge is to enhance the data exchange and sharing between the organizations to avoid duplication, increase the cooperation and coordination of efforts in collecting data and make them available to benefit everybody, saving resources and at the same time preserving data and information ownership,” according to GeoNetwork opensource.


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