This is another in our continuing series of profiles of members of the GCVC
10/18/2007

The Samsung Group is a South Korean conglomerate composed of numerous businesses, the top three being Samsung Electronics (the world’s largest electronics company), Samsung Heavy Industry (one of the world’s biggest shipbuilders) and Samsung Engineering ...view Article

Discuss the paper on 'The Indispensable Role of Volunteering and Activism for Achieving the MDGs'
9/20/2007

Background
In November 2006, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) and the United Nations Volunteer (UNV) Programme renewed a 2004  ...view Article

Countdown to 2015: Running out of Excuses
10/23/2007

At the half way mark for the Millennium Development Goals, we can celebrate the fact that almost all countries, including in Africa, have made progress toward most of them. More importantly, it is in some of the poorest countries in the world like Mozambique, Rwanda, Bangladesh and Tanzania that we ...view Article