CITIZENFOUR: Directed by Laura Poitras [Documentary Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 28Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
"CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when Snowden contacted her, using the name “CITIZENFOUR,” in January 2013."
 

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Knowledge, Power and Inequality: Why I Wrote The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering

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Submitted by Martin Punaks 27Jan
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Child Protection
Promotion of volunteerism based society
BETTER AID
SOCIAL WORK
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL BUSINESS
Venture Philantropism and Philantropy
Martin Punaks - the Country Director for Next Generation Nepal - explains why he decided to document the links between orphanage voluntourism and child trafficking. He reflects on his own experiences of voluntourism and how this influenced his motives for writing his report, The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering.

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#SocialUN: UN Social Media Day - January 30 [Event Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 27Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEMOCRACY
BETTER AID
SOCIAL WORK
SOCIAL AND ETHICAL BUSINESS
'The first “UN Social Media Day” will take place at UN Headquarters on Friday 30 January 2015. All are invited to join the conversation online by using the hashtag of the day: #SocialUN! The event aims to provide participants with new knowledge and inspiration, as well as acting as a working guide to the exciting – and sometimes challenging – social media environment.
 

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Future of Work Podcast | Jacob Morgan [Podcast Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 27Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Corporate Social Responsability and Corporate Citizenship

'Each episode of the Future of Work Podcast will tackle a specific theme or idea related to the future of work such as big data, collaboration, management, flexible work, globalization, the internet of things, and much more. An expert guest will also provide their ideas and advice on the topic we cover. Why is the world of work changing? How is work changing? What do you need to do about it? Listen to the Future of Work Podcast to find out!'

 

More at: www.thefutureorganization.com/future-work-podcast/

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Phul Kumari Mahato Memorial Hospital: A Partnership in Community Building

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Submitted by Michael Rosenkrantz 27Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
I've worked at PKMMH for eight months. This is what we are doing.
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Rethinking International Volunteering (Part II): Interview with Claire Bennett, Major Trends on International Volunteerism

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 27Jan
Claire Bennett, Co-Founder, Learning Service and Co-Author of Re-Thinking International Volunteering, an upcoming book that will offer a paradigm shift in the way we think about volunteeering overseas. In this second part of the interview, Claire focuses on major trends related to the subject from the rise of short term volunteerism, the influence of internet and payment based volunteering.

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The Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood [Book Retrospective]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 26Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE

 

"Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, “Moral Disorder“, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, “Alias Grace“. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game." 
 
 
 

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Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil [Book Recommendation]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 26Jan
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SOCIETY AT LARGE
 
"Shuklaji Street, in late 1970s Old Bombay. In Rashid’s opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. Here, people say that you introduce only your worst enemy to opium…"
 
 
 
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MAN, WOMAN AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN: SEXUAL MINORITIES AND THE HINDU RELIGION

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Submitted by Pragya Mishra 25Jan
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Inclusive Gender ( also LGBT issues)
The Hindu fundamentalist often state that homosexuality and other sexual minorities are against the Hindu religion and culture. Is it?
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Education, the right of every child

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Submitted by Aishworya Shrestha 25Jan
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Education

Dr. William Ellery Channing, a well known writer said that "it is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state". Indeed it is true that to educate a child is becoming a great challenge in Nepal.

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