What is Active Citizens?
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...Sanitation is a Basic Human Right
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...While the train runs
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...Zewdu the street child
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...Video Portrait | The West Bank
This glimpse at the West Bank was shot entirely between Ramallah and Bethlehem.Take a moment to explore these cities through this audio/visual tour. If you’ve got a minute, you should also check out Jerusalem in 60 Seconds – vimeo.com/43441620. Try not to...Read more“On this International Day of the Girl Child, I call on all governments to take action to end all forms of violence against girls in all parts of the world. Together, we must create a world where violence against women and girls is never tolerated and girls are always empowered to reach their full potential. ”
– Ban Ki-moon
Read more“Gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation”
– Kofi Annan
