Business, Fairtrade, Food & Cuisine, Human Rights, International Day, Poverty, Sustainability, Video
Have you ever wondered who produces the food that reaches your table? 8 out of 10 people who produce food in Latin America and the Caribbean are family farmers. Family Farming is a way of classifying agricultural, forestry, fishing, pastoral and aquaculture...
Diversity, Freedom, Global Citizenship, Human Rights, Medium < 30m, Migration, TED, Video
More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer — who himself has three or four “origins” — meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing...Business, Democracy, Economics, Freedom, Global Citizenship, Human Rights, Political, Poverty, Website
A Piketty guide for lifelong learners. When Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” was published earlier this year, it was something of a sensation. That’s no small feat for a chart-heavy doorstop on “the dismal science” of economics. A fair portion of...
Disease, Health, Human Rights, Infographic, Video
Hans Rosling unveils data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world’s deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. By following the data, he suggests a surprising key to ending the...
Citizenship, Democracy, Freedom, Global Citizenship, Human Rights, Literacy, Political, Post 2015 Agenda, Social, Teaching Resource, Video
Are you interested in making changes in your community? We believe things can happen when people connect and work together. Active Citizens brings people together to share ideas and learn from each other. Find out more about the Active Citizens programme and see how...
Health, Human Rights, Sanitation, Video
Warning: This talk might contain much more than you’d ever want to know about the way the world poops. But as sanitation activist (and TED Fellow) Francis de los Reyes asks — doesn’t everyone deserve a safe place to...Child Labour, Child Rights, Disease, Family, Health, Homelessness, Human Rights, Literacy, Poverty, Safety, Short < 10m, Video
Meherunnesa is a ten years old girl that lives by a rail tracks slum in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The train is a ticking clock for all human activities. When Meherun is not playing, she is selling jasmine necklaces at the local traffic light. On an ordinary day...
Child Labour, Child Rights, Homelessness, Human Rights, Literacy, Poverty, Safety, Short < 10m, Video
Zewdu is a street child that sells chewing gums and sleeps under a car in the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. One day a foreign tourist gives him by mistake a larger amount of money then the one he was asking for, he decides to spend that money to go back to the...