Rio +20: the challenge of a sustainable economy on XXI century

We cannot expect major agreements from Rio +20.

We cannot expect major agreements from Rio +20.

The State of the World’s Children includes global warming and environment protection among the main challenges teenagers must cope with.

Next summit on Climate carried out by the United Nations in Durban will probably finish without a legally binding agreement.

February 12th: Red Hand Day. Soldier boys and girls are fighting in more than 14 countries all over the world. They are forced, exploited, treated with inexplicable violence. Despite under age boys and girls were forbidden to participate in combats by the United Nations, still too often nowadays, boys and girls are recruited for that [...]

Rocío Román Collado. Workshop Director On the 5th and 6th November Workshops on Development Cooperation: Health, Childhood and Environmental Sustainability were held in Seville, organised by the Fundació Roger Torné in collaboration with University of Seville. These workshops provided us with the opportunity to critically analyse the future challenges of international cooperation. These challenges not [...]

We live in the information society, and although we help to expand it every month, we are convinced that a great deal of information does not always reflect reality. Perhaps this is true because, although data show and compare different situations, they are not reality, and we don’t see the people living these situations (or [...]

In the April edition of the news bulletin Inspira, we devoted the Air Projects section to the most vulnerable children in the world as a result of armed conflict in an article titled “Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo”. We paid particular attention to the horror endured by those boys and girls that [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a country situated in the middle of Africa. To the north it forms a border with the Central African Republic and Sudan, to the south with Zambia and Angola, to the east with Ruanda, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania and to the west with the Republic of the [...]

The situation in Butembo Butembo is a Congolese city of some 700,000 inhabitants, situated in the east of the country, some 100 kilometres from the frontier with Uganda, in the province of Northern Kivu. This is one of the areas that suffered most in the war that raged from 1997 to the signing of the [...]