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MO*lecture: Opting for Climate

6 February 2014 -

Qi Ye and Jos Delbeke respond to the question of whether China and the EU can save the world from a climate catastrophe.

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European IMF directors protected the banks, but hit the Greeks

4 February 2014 -

MO* Magazine could seize a confidential document that shows the number of questions about the approach of the Greece debt crisis that lived within the IMF Executive Board.

Visual

Interactive graphic: the 200 largest companies in the world

10 November 2013 -

The 200 biggest companies in the world are based in 24 different countries and are active in 13 different sectors. This interactive graphic provides insight in the group of the 200 megacompanies.

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Two MO*lectures With Famous Indian Activist Sunita Narain

3 May 2013 -

Sunita Narain is director of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in India , where she has been working for more than 30 years on the relation between ecology and development. She is one of the most authoritative voices from the Global South when it comes to global debates about environment and climate.

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MO*lecture Alfredo Jaar & Katerina Gregos

10 September 2012 -

The Newtopia-event in Mechelen states a very clear relationship between art and human rights, and in a broader sense between artistic creation and political action. The main exhibition Newtopia brings the work of Alfredo Jaar in a satellite expo to the ING Cultural Centre in Brussels from 10th October until 10th December. Title of the expo is Let T ...

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MO*lecture with Jacqueline McGlade and Joachim Spangenberg: A Green Economy within the Limits of Our Planet

4 September 2012 -

Our ecological footprint reaches far beyond what planet Earth can sustain, and if our Western model of consumption and production continues to inspire people from China to Brasil, we will soon need ten planets. Still, the official discourse at the Rio+20 Conference was all about growth. Green growth, admittedly, but growth all the same.

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“The UN provides the necessary legitimacy”

22 August 2012 -

In sixteen UN peace and reconstruction missions around the world, there are some 120.000 men and women at work.‘A real UN army does not exist’, says Marco Bianchini, head of the UN liaison Office for Peace and Security in Brussels. The growing need to prevent or control conflicts on the international stage results in complex UN missions ...

Analysis

Angry Fragile World

15 December 2011 -

Three years after the debts volcano on Wall Street erupted, we can see more clearly what happened: a crisis of neoliberal globalization.

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MO*lecture Hania Zlotnik & Fred Pearce: 7 Billion People: Development Disaster or Opportunity?

28 October 2011 -

Monday 7 November at 7 pm in the Kaaitheater in Brussels, two internationally recognized experts will debate about population, climate, migration and development.

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7 Billion: Development Disaster or Opportunity?

28 October 2011 -

Every day the world adds 209.000 inhabitants and the UN expects the 7 billionth living human to be born on October 31th. Will we welcome him or her chanting peace on earth for everone? Or will the reality be gloomier, and will the explosive population growth erase all the positive effects of our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint?

Opinion

Self-criticism is the mother of dialogue

21 April 2011 -

These days, Judaism and Christianity are often presented as kindred souls who stand for democracy and human rights, while Islam is cut from a wholly different cloth. This essay by Tom Kenis argues that the books and practice of the three religions barely support this contention.

Opinion

Time to Make the Promise of Equality a Reality

7 March 2011 -

A hundred years ago today, women across the world took an historic step on the long road to equality. The first ever International Women’s Day was called to draw attention to the unacceptable and often dangerous working conditions that so many women faced worldwide. Although the occasion was celebrated in only a handful of countries, it brought ove ...