Things Are Good

I have good news for you: you don’t have to work at a job you don’t like! Yahoo Finance has an op-ed about finding the job you love.
Some selected excerpts from the article:

3. Stop saying financial issues hold you back.
Don’t use your financial constraints as a way to get out of making adult decisions. You [...]

More often than not, rich countries state that they’ll only give aid to countries with ‘good governance,’ whatever that means. To me it seems like a vague term, nonetheless this vague term is now more vaguely applied – and that’s a good thing!
The World Bank, which itself suffers from not-so-good governance, has released a report [...]

Good things happen every day a zillion times a day, sometimes people get to experience those good things before others. Today I found out about two such things:
1. Women’s rights in Sierra Leone have improved thanks to new laws that protect women. Other countries already have such laws in place and it’s great to see [...]

I found two articles today that highlight how women can – and do – change the world. In Africa, there was a recent meeting of women who work in development to help spur gender equality throughout the continent and embed equality into development practices.
Uganda has passed legislation stipulating that a third of the seats in [...]

The only way that one could not know that sweatshops exist in China is if one was living under a rock, a very very big rock at that. Indeed, human rights issues were a red flag when the IOC was looking to Beijing to host the 2008 olympics, but t lo and behold – the [...]

The Economist Intelligence Unit has done its first global peace index and has named Norway as the most peaceful country. Many international figures, like Jimmy Carter and the Dali Lama have supported the survey.

Some rankings:
2 New Zealand
3 Denmark
25 Australia
40 Ghana
60 China
96 USA
97 Iran