Dr Richard Lawson, the founder of the campaign for a global human rights index, said: "Our report makes the case for the UN to publish each year a global human rights index, detailing the human rights performance of each and every government on the planet, displayed in league table form".
As the Breeders' Cup Day races demonstrate each year, a global market exists for thoroughbred racing.
Each year, the global number of deaths to which bacterial resistance contributes far outstrips those caused by terrorist attacks.
HBV and liver cancer take nearly a million lives each year, yet global attention and funding are still lacking.
The figures are frightening — 218,000 more mouths to feed each day, 80 million more each year, a global population now close to 7 billion.
It offers educational workshops and hosts conferences and seminars on the theme, and each year nominates global winners for the Guernica Awards for Peace and Reconciliation.
"It's one of the last areas on the Internet where there really isn't anything yet that addresses core needs for this group of people," he said, adding that "trillions" are spent each year on global scientific research.
You may have already heard Daniel Crawford perform his cello composition "A Song for Our Warming Planet," built with notes representing each year's global average surface temperature: And you probably know about "Liberated Carbon," my very different musical take on the age of fossil fuels.
With airlines buying more planes each year, the global fleet is expected to stay young on average under 15 years.
The Thrasher Foundation awards a number of grants each year for global health research related to children's health, especially their $25,000 Early Career Award specifically targeting junior researchers.
