Fellow Sameh Seif to Be Featured in Egypt’s 2007 Human Development Report

The work of Ashoka Arab World Fellow Sameh Seif will be featured in the upcoming United Nations Development Programme’s Egypt Human Development Report (2007) in the section entitled “Sanitation at the Crossroads: What Can Civil Society Offer?” Sameh’s CSO Together for Environment and Development builds and maintains environmentally and economically sustainable sewage systems in Middle [...]

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Computer Literacy & Broadband in Egypt

The current issue of the Egyptian magazine Business Today features an exposé on the stymied development of Internet access in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the statistic that only 4% of the population routinely uses the Internet, and fewer than 1% of those users have broadband access. For comparison sake, 17.3% of the Middle East’s population identify [...]

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Tofulty Foundation Works to Raise Awareness of Egyptian Street Children

Recently, the United Nations released an estimate that hundreds of thousands of children, sometimes as young as four or five years old, live on Egypt’s streets in attempt to flee poverty, abuse or broken homes. The international newswire Reuters picked up on the story and interviewed Ashoka Fellow Seham Ibrahim about the crisis of sexual [...]

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Habi Centre to Host Climate Conference

In the midst of the global United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conference currently occurring in Bali, Indonesia, Fellow Mohamed Nagi and his CSO The Habi Centre for Environmental Rights will be coordinating a climate conference occurring in Alexandria, Egypt on December 8th, 2007. Mohamed is also currently sponsoring a workshop and conference [...]

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World AIDS Day

Yesterday’s observance of World AIDS Day was marked by experts and activists across the world calling for vigilance and increased awareness of the disease, which UNAIDS recently estimated afflicts 33 million individuals across the world. Indonesia, the Asian country with the fastest-growing HIV epidemic, chose the day to launch its first national campaign urging condom [...]

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