Information on the history of politics in Mexico.

By far the most amazing thing about making Time for School was witnessing the children themselves - seeing how hungry and grateful they are for being given the opportunity to learn.

Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF discusses the world's children with host Jamie Rubin.

We're used to thinking of the world as completely divided between rich and poor -- and to a large extent that's true. But because of the ways humans have damaged the environment, we face not only an increasingly grim future, but also an increasingly shared one, where Latvia and Kenya will be dealing with the same kinds of problems as Louisiana and Kentucky.

Link to information about the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 and sustainable development projects throughout the world.

Over the past half century, most population growth has occurred in the developing world. In high-birth rate countries such as Kenya, the population not only grows, it grows younger. Forty-three percent of Kenya’s population is under 14, compared to 21 percent for the United States.

Ten years ago, filmmaker Bruno Sorrentino began recording the lives of eight newborn babies from around the world. In 1992, world leaders met in Brazil for the Earth Summit on sustainable development. There they made plans and promises to conquer the global problems of overpopulation, over-consumption and poverty. In the ten years since, Sorrentino has revisited the children repeatedly and recorded how their lives have been affected by the issues discussed at Rio.

Read the Heroin Handbook to find out how opium poppies are turned into heroin.