Tag: Congo

  Dear Sama-Readers, we are pleased to present our Twitter Sunday Rendezvous! Today we decided to share with you our Favorites Tweets @UNICEF. The organization has been very active to help people in Haiti after the earthquake (Read our post about Haiti:Haiti: compassion, communication, occupation… Education? and Haiti: International aid mobilization on the way). But UNICEF also provides support in many countries: Senegal, Somalia, West Bengal, Syria, ...

This time of the year is celebrated almost by everyone, whether you have faith or not. Whether you are into a religion or not. We also think this time of the year is more about giving than receiving. Share. Listen. Give a hand. Help. Of course we don’t pretend we are the perfect ones, on the contrary. But we can give, even if not much. Below, a list of gifts and organizations for your consideration, if you want to give, of course… Let’s ...

  This week we commemorated the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and we posted an article about the Every Human Has Rights Campaign. You were many to send comments about Human Rights, the campain… So for this new Twitter Sunday rendezvous, we decided to share with you our favorites tweets from The Elders. If you don’t know yet who are The Elders: ‘The Elders are an independent group of eminent global ...

Yesterday, Max Dana posted on her blog a long article titled: Darfur, Congo, Burma: is ‘good will’ enough? All the Sama Team felt very concerned by the subject, we discussed a lot about it since yesturday so we decided to post this entire article on the Sama Gazette. If you are a regular reader of the Gazette, you know we usually don’t post anything directly connected to Max Dana (it’s an internal policy, we stay independent ...

A month ago, we posted an article titled: The (new) blood diamonds: it ain’t a movie… and we received many emails about it. The situation in Congo is dangerous and we think it’s important to raise awareness about it. John Prendergast is co-founder of the project Enough at the Center for American Progress, and his article: The new blood diamonds was published on the Boston Globe. It was a month ago and we are still talking about the situation ...

Just before the week-end, and after 10 days the Sama Gazette has been online, we thought it was time to talk about serious things. We know an expert in serious topics (initials are M and D, ring a bell?) so the bar is set high. This is also our first post in the Raison d’être category and we want to talk about an article we read just a few days ago on the Boston Globe: The new blood diamonds by John Prendergast. He is co-founder of the project ...