Oslo Freedom Forum 2012 [Fórum da Liberdade em Oslo 2012]

I would like to talk about this amazing event that happened last week in Oslo, Norway. The Oslo Freedom Forum 2012 put together social activists, Nobel Prize winners, jornalists, policy makers,...

Internships at amazing NGOs!!

Have you ever thought about volunteering and doing an internship at the same time?? It can be a great opportunity to help others and learn! Maybe even start a carrier!! Here are some options we selected...

Refugees United

  [Tradução para Português em breve] "Every day, families are torn apart in their escape from war, persecution or natural disasters. All too often they end up in different parts of the world,...

Obsolescência Programada

[Fonte: o planeta que temos]  "Baterias que "morrem" com apenas 18 meses de uso, impressoras que bloqueiam ao alcançar um determinado número de impressões, lâmpadas que se fundem ao...

Cultures of Resistance

[Source: Cultures of Resistance]"Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace?" Director Iara Lee embarked on a two-year, five-continent trek to find out. From...

Death Sentences

[Tradução para português em breve!] [Souce: International Amnesty] Death Sentences have been handed down in the world for acts such as fraud, sorcery, apostasy, drug-related offences or sexual relations...

Human Slavery

[Tradução para português em breve]   There are an estimated 27 million people enslaved by violence and held against their wills for the purposes of exploitation in the world today. These are...

Teu Futuro Guardião

[Escrito por Yuri Torres] Todas as pessoas brasileiras maiores de 21 anos tem o direito à adoção, independente de seu estado civil (art. 42, ECA). Cabe destacar que a diferença de idade entre o adotante...

Rainbow Town [Cidade Arco-Íris]

[Source: Rainbowtown] As war raged, she had to make a choice; to protect the orphaned children forced into her life or abandon them and go in search of her own family. Her name is Ma Feeta and today,...

Call+Response [Ligue+Responda]

[Source: Call and Response] CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world's 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human...

Help to prevent a genocide in Libia!!

[Source: Avaaz] >> Em breve esta matéria será traduzida pro português!! <<    In Libia, Colonel Qaddafi's armed forces are using machine guns and fighter jets against pro-democracy...

Selling of Innocents [A Venda de Inocentes] by Ruchira Gupta

[Source: Apne Aap] This HBO documentary (in 5 parts) exposes the trafficking in women and girls that occurs from Nepal to India. The video includes interviews with child prostitutes, a procurer and...

Quoting Amy Smith [Citando Amy Smith]

"When we talk about the future we will create, one of the things I think is necessary is to have a clear vision of the world we live in. And now I don't really mean the world that WE live in. I mean...

Wasteland [Lixo Extraordinário]

Filmed over nearly three years, the WASTE LAND documentary follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump,...

One Dress at a Time...

This project shows how can one simple idea help the to change the world. Three years ago, Rachel O'Neill started a project, "Little Dresses for Africa," in a church basement with five friends. Their initial...

End the "Corrective Rapes" [Acabe com os "Estupros Corretivos"]

Millicent Gaika was bound, strangled, tortured and raped for five hours by a man who crowed that he was ‘curing’ her of her lesbianism. She barely survived, but she is not alone -- this vicious crime...

Global Issues [Problemas Globais]

Amazing video that shows how brilliant minds put together can make big changes in the world. Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. Amy...

Lifesaving Designs [Projetos que salvam vidas]

Amazing video that shows how brilliant minds put together can make big changes in the world. Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. Amy Smith...