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'Poverty eradication - greatest global challenge'
- Part VIII:
Sustainable use of biodiversity and its components
We welcome the Strategy for Resource Mobilization
in support of the achievement of the Convention on Biological
Diversity's three objectives, including the commitment to
substantially increasing resources from all sources in support of
biodiversity, in accordance with decisions taken at the Tenth
Conference of the Parties.
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Freedom fighters - Veera Keppetipola and William Wallace of
Scotland - Part I
Emperors, kings, queens, national heroes,
patriots, military and political leaders and freedom fighters who
sacrificed their lives for the sake of their countries occupy a
prominent place in the history of the world. Even after their
deaths, they live. They are immortal. The names of the freedom
fighters are engraved in gold in the cherished history of their
respective countries.
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World Population Day tomorrow:
A humanly centred population
World Population Day falls tomorrow, July 11,
2012. Despite the heavy toll on the human intellect by external
forces interestingly some space still exists for intellectual
activity. Associate Professor in Political Science and Humanities of
Carleton University, Canada, Iranian Farhang Rajee reflecting on
man's dissatisfaction with his environs down the ages, makes us
understand how every step of the way, man and the populations he
belonged to yearned for improvement. How it all went off the rails
was interesting. Here he calls for knowledge on the landmarks of
human history.
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