To meet some of those challenges, the Swedish partnership project Genderforce has been initiated.

We re making changes at the top in order to open up our party to greater participation.

We gritted our teeth and for the sake of our national economies supported our governments as they bailed out the banks with public money.

At the EU China Summit, we discussed the Chinese government s plans for ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

In early 2014, after learning they were closing down after 19 years, we had a few promising but ultimately fruitless conversations with the people charged with selling off AmericaSpeaks assets.

We gritted our teeth and for the sake of our national economies supported our governments as they bailed out the banks with public money. It was a necessary, if infuriating, act of salvation to avoid economic disaster.

For instance we attach special importance to the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex combatants an activity which we had already launched long before the Lomé Reconstruction Programme.

To mark the one year anniversary of the arrest and detention of the Zone9 bloggers and associated journalists, our community crowd sourced this video to support our jailed colleagues. This collage features messages and wishes from Mexico, Chile, the US, Cuba, Croatia, Colombia, Kenya, Switzerland, Iran, Syria, France, Azerbaijan and of course, Ethiopia.

While celebrity activists focus entirely on cutting CO2, we could do much more and at much lower cost if we addressed urban heat islands.

We in the former PASOK government instead helped create a more positive framework by declaring our commitment to work for consensus, thereby creating the basis for trust and mutual understanding.

While celebrity activists focus entirely on cutting CO2, we could do much more and at much lower cost if we addressed urban heat islands. Simple solutions can make a vast difference to temperatures.