Mideast News

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Nov 19, 2009 12:46 PM ET

Some 2.5 billion people live without toilets, and more children die of sanitation-related diseases than any others. Today we recognize how important toilets are. Read More

More like this in: Health, Children, Water

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:23 AM ET

The zoo has once again become a family destination in a sign that life in Iraq is creeping back toward normal. Read More

More like this in: Reuters, Iraq, Quality Of Life

By Katherine Gustafson | Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:27 AM ET

The religious scholar and author’s inspired Charter for Compassion breathes new life into the Golden Rule. Read More

More like this in: Love, Kindness, Compassion, Spirituality, Religion, The Internet, Call to Action, Karen Armstrong

By Katherine Gustafson | Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:31 PM ET

The new Global Technology and Innovation Fund will help Muslim-majority countries get tech savvy. Read More

More like this in: Technology, Business, Science, Grants, The Huffington Post, Egypt, Investment

By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:45 AM ET

A US soldier finds an Australian bomb-sniffing dog who had been missing in Afghanistan for more than a year. Read More

More like this in: Hope, Australia, Afghanistan, The Associated Press, Kevin Rudd

By Kendall Hunter | Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:04 AM ET

Authors who deal with the theme of peace in their works are honored in the US and Germany. Read More

More like this in: Europe, Africa, Germany, Asia, Peace, Ohio, Religion, Sheryl Wudunn

By Katherine Gustafson | Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:00 AM ET

On International Day of Climate Action, creativity was unleashed to galvanize the world behind the global warming cause. Read More

More like this in: California, Climate change, India, Australia, Afghanistan, Mexico, Santa Cruz, Croatia, GOOD Magazine, Bill McKibben

By Kendall Hunter | Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:59 AM ET

The Nansen Refugee medal is being posthumously awarded to Edward Kennedy today in Washington DC. Read More

More like this in: Washington, Washington DC, Peace, Nobel Peace Prize, Switzerland, Refugee, Norway, Refugees, UNHCR, Antonio Guterres

By Kendall Hunter | Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:29 PM ET

An ex-soldier takes his most difficult memory of war and uses it to reshape the lives of children traumatically affected by war. Read More

More like this in: Children, Non-Profit, United States, Nonprofit, Iraq, Afghanistan, Peace, Ice Cream, Military, Christian Science Monitor

By Kendall Hunter | Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:50 AM ET

The brother of an assassinated Aid worker makes a plea to make 2010 the Year To Protect Humanitarian Aid Workers. Read More

More like this in: Children, Afghanistan, Death, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan