Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun
Joseph Guillotin, Henry Shrapnel and Jules Leotard became immortal -- by entering the English language. But NPR's Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole discover that when your entire life is reduced to a single definition, the results are sometimes...
Terra Incognita – The Edge and Back – FULL FLIGHT coverage
Watch as six grade school girls' seemingly impossible, but absolutely achievable plan to launch a payload of cameras into the stratosphere to take measurements, photographs and video of the curvature of the earth and black of space becomes a...
NASA | Goddard Space Flight Center (1976)
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, Goddard Space Flight Center has seen a lot of changes over its first five decades. Yet despite the time that has passed, the core values and mission of the center has changed little. This vintage film...
Our goal is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people. Together...
Sport has proven to be a cost-effective and flexible tool in promoting peace and development objectives. In the Declaration of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sport’s role for social progress is further acknowledged: "Sport is also an important enabler of...
A GLOBAL NETWORK WORKING FOR A WORLD FREE OF LANDMINES The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is a global network in some 100 countries that works for a world free of antipersonnel landmines, where landmine survivors can lead fulfilling lives. Visit the...
We create safe and secure environments in war torn communities by clearing landmines, managing stockpiles of weapons and destroying unexploded ordnance. War leaves countries for dead. It is painful enough for those who have lost everything, without finding that they...
HALO’s 25th Anniversary
We created a short video to show the amazing work the HALO Trust have achieved over the last 25 years.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power trailer: climate change has new villain
Former US vice president Al Gore has produced a follow-up to his award-winning 2006 documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth'. This one is called 'Truth to Power'.
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Remember the Fallen – Those who have given their lives in the service of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/en/memorial/Serving the cause of peace in a violent world is a dangerous occupation. Since the founding of the United Nations, hundreds of brave men and women have lost their lives in its service. Please visit: The United Nations
We are Amnesty International UK. We work to protect men, women and children wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. As a global movement of over seven million people, Amnesty International is the world's largest grassroots human rights organisation....
Forensic architecture: Mapping human rights abuses in Gaza
We've partnered with a team of forensic architects at Goldsmith's University in London to document and analyse patterns of violations in Gaza. Find out how we work using maps and data to create a real picture of what happened during a...
Mother of All Rivers
In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of a...
Powering our future with weather, climate and water
World Meteorological Day 2012 - Members video
Global Citizen – Water & Sanitation
New girl and Global Citizen Ambassador Hanna Simone breaks Narrates this story about Water & Sanitation. Production Company: The Academy Director: Brikk Editing: Brikk Storyboard: Gustaf Öhrnell Illustration: Gustaf Öhrnell 2D...
Stop the Spread
Practical Action: STEM Challenge Pupils research infectious diseases then design and build a model of a hand washing device for a school in Kenya Infectious diseases are a global problem and cause millions of deaths each year. Stop the spread is a STEM challenge which...
World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), observed on 21 March every year, is a global awareness day which has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. Down Syndrome International (DSi) encourages our friends all over the world to choose their own activities...
International Day of Forests 2016
This Video is about the importance of Forests in protecting, sheltering, filtering our natural water sources. Did you know? 1. Forested watersheds and wetlands supply 75 percent of the world’s accessible fresh water for domestic,...
Freedom and Human Rights
The European Parliament has always been committed to defending and protecting human rights all over the world. It has firmly denounced all cases of genocide, torture and other violations, it sends its observers around the globe to ensure...
The human rights violations we’re powerless to prevent
The worst corporate human rights violators aren't Monsanto, Halliburton or Shell. They're companies you've never heard of, and they're based in countries where our advocacy campaigns can't reach. This video is based on an article I wrote...
Focus Human Rights: History, Violations, First Dimension
First part of the series "Focus Human Rights". It deals with Civil and Political Rights, with Human Rights violations and the history of Human Rights. This film marks the start of the project "Focus Human Rights". The series will consist of...
Bright lights, big cities – Urbanisation and the rise of the megacity
At the beginning of February 2015, somewhere in London, a maternity ward welcomed the city's 8,615,246th inhabitant. The mayor of London reckons that the British capital has now surpassed its previous population peak set in 1939. But if it occasionally feels cramped...
A feast of spectacular colour as Hindus celebrate Holi
Holi, the festival of colours, marks the beginning of spring. One of the biggest Hindu festivals, Holi holds a mythological importance - that of the triumph of good over evil. It is also associated with the eternal love of Lord Krishna and his consort Radha. The...
The magic washing machine
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up...
DON’T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population
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A history of global living conditions in 5 charts
This is the introduction to Our World in Data – the web publication that shows how global living conditions are changing. A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden...
Ken’s Song – A Traditional Era
Shot in Zambia. After we wrapped filming a commercial for Water Aid with kreamlondon.com , Ken and the villagers decided to play some music and dance. Ken sang with his homemade guitar, the sun was setting and it seemed too good not to...
Why Do We March
We had our reasons to participate to the Women's March on London.
