25/10/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
Paris – Do you like your job? How’s your health? Are you spending enough time each day with your children? When you need them, are your friends there for you? Can you trust your neighbours? And how satisfied are you, overall, with your life?.
Has the OECD asked them “How Is Life?” | Picture:UN
A new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publication, How’s Life?, looks at these questions and others, offering a comprehensive picture of what makes up people’s lives in 40 countries worldwide.
The report assesses 11 specific aspects of life – ranging from income, jobs and housing to health, education and the environment – as part of the OECD’s ongoing effort to devise new measures for assessing well-being that go beyond Gross Domestic Product.
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25/10/2011
Human Wrongs Watch
By Ernest Corea* – IDN-InDepth News
Washington DC – How quickly the tide of international opinion changes course. In took less than a week for the hurrahs directed at Libya’s success in ending the Gaddafi dictatorship to turn into criticism of how that success was achieved; specifically, of how the country’s late leader was felled
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Even as “bullets of joy” were fired into the air, and other sounds and sights of triumph at the conquest of tyranny erupted over most of Libya, and were captured on phones and film for the rest of the world to witness, segments of the inter- national community were stridently demanding “clarity” on the details of Gaddafi’s last moments.
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