At TED2008 in March of this year, TED Prize winner Karen Armstrong was granted a wish to change the world. This is what she asked for:

"I wish that you would help with the creation, launch and propagation of a Charter for Compassion, crafted by a group of leading inspirational thinkers from the three Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and based on the fundamental principles of universal justice and respect."

Since then support for idea has built among numerous religious groups, spiritual leaders such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, and Britain's first female Rabbi Julia Neuberger have joined a special Council to oversee the Charter, and Kluster, a collaborative decision making platform, has built a groundbreaking site that will allow anyone to contribute to the Charter.

We urge you to take a moment to watch a short video that went live on the web today. Beautifully filmed and edited by Jesse Dylan and his team at Form TV, it might just be the most inspiring thing you see this week.

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We received this email today, requesting responses to a survey, targeted at NRI's (Non-Resident Indians):



Hi
Greetings.

I am conducting a survey of Gulf-based Non-resident Indians titled "Perceptions of Gulf-based Non-resident Indians (NRIs) on Adhering to Cardinal Principles of Broadcasting and Television by Indian News Channels". This survey is purely for academic purposes.
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We received this email, requesting responses to a survey, targeted at NRI's (Non-Resident Indians):

Note: May I request to please forward this email to 5-7 of your members with a request to complete the questionnaire the return the same to me and oblige.

Dear Sir/Madam, Greetings.

I am conducting a global random survey titled " What make you feel proud of India : perceptions of NRIs from around the world". This survey is purely for academic purposes. This survey is purely for academic purposes. [Read More!]

Submitted by User - Bradley

I'm looking for some help…We're starting a podcast for/by people who have immigrated to another country. We'd like to bring stories/articles by contributors FROM every continent, TO every continent. (i.e., a Mexican living in Canada, or a Scot living in France, a Dane living in Japan, an Ecuadorian living in Brazil, an Australian living in Africa, etcetera, etcetera.)

The "immigrant" category is rather large, examples include: expatriates, academics, aid workers, refugees, foreign businesspeople, spouses of "foreigners" etc.

I've written to quite a few organizations searching for good contributors; journalism schools, international corporations, non-profit aid organizations, etc. I've had a lot of interest, but not a lot of actual work submitted. [Read More!]

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"Global GCC Weekly Market Report (Aug 10)
This weekly research provides a summury of the GCC markts, GCC stocks ended the week on a lower note, in reaction to the latest interest rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserves, and the subsequent hikes this action triggered across GCC countries. The Global GCC Large Cap. 30 Index shed 0.71 percent during the week. The Global GCC Investable-100 Index too was down by 0.96 percent."

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