<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"><channel><title>United Nations University</title><atom:link href="http://unu.edu/news/news/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><link>http://unu.edu</link><description>United Nations University</description><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en-US</language><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><item><title>Online Survey: E-Waste Recycling and Children&#8217;s Health</title><link>http://unu.edu/news/news/online-survey-e-waste-recycling-and-child-health.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/news/news/online-survey-e-waste-recycling-and-child-health.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:37:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>stephan</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/news/.html</guid><description><![CDATA[Over the past two decades, the production of electronic equipment has increased tremendously. As a result, electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest growing global waste streams. Some e-waste is shipped to developing or emerging industrialized countries where, although it is labeled for re-use, much of it ends up being recycled. 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Those interviews contributed to the EIU report &#8220;E-government in Europe, the Middle East and Africa&#8220;.  The [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/news/news/economist-interviews-unu-iist-researcher-on-e-governance.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Learning from Spanish Immigrant Youth Gang Members</title><link>http://unu.edu/news/news/learning-from-immigrant-youth-gang-members.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/news/news/learning-from-immigrant-youth-gang-members.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 16:58:37 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>stephan</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/news/.html</guid><description><![CDATA[Academics, youth justice officials, prison officers and others with personal experience of youth gang membership joined the staff of the UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) to explore notions of gang membership in Barcelona and Madrid on 10 April 2013, in the art nouveau Sant Pau complex. In the forum &#8220;Seeking Respect: Re-examining Assumptions [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/news/news/learning-from-immigrant-youth-gang-members.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>UNU Hosts Panel Discussion on Modern Diplomacy</title><link>http://unu.edu/news/news/unu-hosts-panel-discussion-on-modern-diplomacy.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/news/news/unu-hosts-panel-discussion-on-modern-diplomacy.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 09:28:35 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>curtis</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/news/.html</guid><description><![CDATA[In this video, filmed after the panel discussion reported below, UNU Rector David M. Malone, Dr. Jorge Heine and Dr. Sadaaki Numata reiterate their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities presented by shifts in contemporary forms of diplomacy. • • • Are we seeing the end of diplomacy? On Thursday 2 May 2013, UNU Rector [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/news/news/unu-hosts-panel-discussion-on-modern-diplomacy.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>StEP Green Paper Examines Transboundary E-waste Flows</title><link>http://unu.edu/news/news/step-green-paper-transboundary-e-waste.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/news/news/step-green-paper-transboundary-e-waste.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:39:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/news/.html</guid><description><![CDATA[In her recently published Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) initiative Green Paper titled “Transboundary Movements of Discarded Electrical and Electronic Equipment”, Djahane Salehabadi sheds light on the nature of transboundary e-waste flows and highlights key considerations and challenges related to national and international e-waste policy. The Green Paper — an output from the collaborative StEP [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/news/news/step-green-paper-transboundary-e-waste.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>New Book Shows Why Poorer Countries Face Harder Road to Industrialization</title><link>http://unu.edu/news/news/book-poorer-countries-face-harder-road-to-industrialization.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/news/news/book-poorer-countries-face-harder-road-to-industrialization.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:43:34 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>carol</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/news/.html</guid><description><![CDATA[Under current conditions, poorer developing countries may find it much harder to foster industrial development and structural change than earlier generations of states that hauled themselves out of poverty, according to a new book in the “WIDER Studies in Development Economics” series. The book, launched earlier this month in London, is entitled Pathways to Industrialization in [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/news/news/book-poorer-countries-face-harder-road-to-industrialization.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Open Government Data Online Meeting Series Concludes at W3C</title><link>http://unu.edu/news/news/ogd-meeting-at-w3c.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/news/news/ogd-meeting-at-w3c.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 06:48:45 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>pchan</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/news/.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) e-Government Interest Group recently concluded a series of online meetings on research, policy and practice of Open Government Data (OGD) — data produced or managed by government and made openly available to citizens, businesses and other third parties. The meetings, which extended over the past several months, were organized by [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/news/news/ogd-meeting-at-w3c.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>UNU Releases China E-Waste Study</title><link>http://unu.edu/news/news/unu-releases-china-e-waste-study.html</link><comments>http://unu.edu/news/news/unu-releases-china-e-waste-study.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator>daniel</dc:creator><guid isPermaLink="false">http://unu.edu/news/.html</guid><description><![CDATA[The Bonn-based Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE) operating unit of the United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace has released an in-depth country study on the current state of waste electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste) in China. 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The symposium was opened by Shotaro Yachi, Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Japan, and [...]]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://unu.edu/news/news/unu-tokyo-hosts-symposium-on-building-asean-identity.html/feed</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item></channel></rss><!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/Database Caching 23/63 queries in 0.041 seconds using memcachedObject Caching 425/528 objects using memcachedServed from: unu.edu @ 2013-05-23 00:42:40 by W3 Total Cache -->