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Ten days ago we posted about the Every Human Has Rights and CIVICUS new campaign: Barefoot Against Poverty. By going barefoot against poverty, the campaign invites us to take a first step for human rights, thinking about people who barely have food to put on their table, let alone shoes to put on their feet. Simple, effective, easy to understand and easy to do. Back to when all started for us. In 2008, Max Dana supported the Every Human Has Rights ...

Today is World AIDS Day. A day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. According to Wikipedia, AIDS has killed more than 25 million people between 1981 and 2007, and an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide live with HIV as of 2007, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Last year we posted about: Happy Thanksgiving and How to Cook a Turkey and many of you enjoyed the recipe by Sydny Carter published on AllRecipes.com. This year, forget the turkey, we will tell you how to cook green beans. Vegetables are healthy and are great to accompany the turkey as well as for vegetarians who can celebrate and enjoy the dinner too. We didn’t take the recipe from AllRecipes.com but we chose Simply Recipes instead. We mentioned ...

International Human Rights day on the 10th of December 2010 marks the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since the Sama Gazette is online and because Max Dana supports Every Human Has Rights (read more about the “60 Signers for the 60th Anniversary” Initiative) we never missed the date and this year, CIVICUS launches a new campaign: Barefoot Against Poverty. About the campaign (more on official website): This year, ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Sanrio celebrates its 50th anniversary and Hello Kitty is also celebrated. Many events are planned (Los Angeles, Miami)  and Hello Kitty fans in the United States will be able to see original artworks created by contemporary artists. Max Dana decided to post about these celebrations and to lift the veil on ‘her story with Hello Kitty’. An interesting post about something some of us have noticed for a while: Max is a big fan of Hello Kitty! ...

Our previous post in our Art in Sudan section was dedicated to Sudanese artist Ahmed Abushariaa; today we are pleased to introduce you to another great Sudanese artist: El Tayib Daw El Bait. El Tayib is in his forties, he was trained at the School of Art and Design in Khartoum and lives in Nairobi, Kenya. What makes his work so interesting is his freedom to create: paintings (acrylic, oil) or textile design for fashion house KikoRomeo, El Tayib Daw El ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

If you follow the updates on En Route To Sudan, then you have noticed a list of books we recommend. Among them is The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur by Brian Steidle and Gretchen Steidle Wallace. But if you are not into reading books, the film The Devil Came On Horsebackwhich exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to ...