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Today, an estimated three billion people worldwide regularly use the World Wide Web to access information, book their holidays, do their shopping, watch movies, play video games and much more. This global computer network is a huge repository of human knowledge and culture. It has fundamentally changed the way people live and work.
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When she was three years old, Chantal lost her parents during the 1994 Rwanda genocide and ended up living with a Rwandan foster family in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Following the June 1976 Soweto riots between black youths and the South African authorities, thousands of students fearing arrest and ill-treatment sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
With the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) support, student refugees received professional counselling, scholarships and subsistence help. Assisted by UNHCR, Lesotho allowed South African student refugees to be accommodated in educational institutions in order to carry on with their education.
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In 2010, on the basis of standards developed by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the European Union, along with many countries around the world, introduced a regulation that limits the stand-by power consumption of electronic devices to a maximum of 1 watt/hour, resulting in important energy savings.
The IEC is the world's leading organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies.
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In recent years, few concepts have changed international cooperation and our daily lives as much as “sustainable development”.
The term was first coined in the 1980 World Conservation Strategy document produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), headquartered just outside Geneva. In 1987, the Geneva-based UN World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) further developed and defined this concept in its report, also called the Brundtland report: “Our Common Future”.