LGBT Rights: The 2013 ?Hall of Shame? - Thomson Reuters Foundation: The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), for attempting to export homophobia to Africa. Founded in 1990 by the Baptist Minister and televangelist Pat Robertson, and headed by Jay Sekulow, its chief counsel, the ACLJ strongly opposes LGBT ...
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Friday, May 17, 2013
World Bank Vice President Diop heads to DR Congo
World Bank Vice President Diop heads to DR Congo:
| Mr. Diop is expected to discuss the development challenges facing the Republic of Congo and see first-hand how the World Bank can step up its development assistance to better help poor and vulnerable families in the country escape poverty and pursue ... | Ghana Business News |
Low income African-American adults living closer to fast food restaurants have ...
Low income African-American adults living closer to fast food restaurants have ...
African-American adults living closer to a fast food restaurant
had a higher body mass index (BMI) than those who lived further away
from fast food, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center, and this association was ...
First openly Gay ordained Bishop to speak
First openly Gay ordained Bishop to speak: He is the co-author of three AIDS education curricula for youth and adults, and has done AIDS work in the United States and in Africa (Uganda and South Africa). Bishop Robinson was invited by Barack Obama to give the invocation at the opening inaugural ...
Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to 'standstill'
Mine union threatens to bring South Africa to 'standstill': JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The leader of South Africa's biggest platinum mining union threatened on Friday to bring Africa's No. 1 economy "to a standstill" and demanded a meeting with President Jacob Zuma, ramping up the rhetoric in an 18-month labor ...
Russia 'rediscovers' Africa after a decade of neglect
Russia 'rediscovers' Africa after a decade of neglect:
| THE collapse of the Soviet Union, the demise of Soviet communism and the end of the Cold War in 1991 also brought an abrupt end to Moscow's African involvement. This involvement of about 40 years left a mixed legacy. On the one hand, the Kremlin's ... | BusinessLIVE |
Gov't urged to levy a tax on alcohol to fund HIV...
Gov't urged to levy a tax on alcohol to fund HIV...:
| As Uganda counts a 40% reduction in AIDS-related deaths in the past decade, the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) wants Government to levy a special tax on alcohol and cigarette to fund HIV programmes. According to UAC Executive Director Dr. Kihumuro ... | New Vision |
Women As Nation Builders
Women As Nation Builders: THE crushing poverty level in today's Nigeria has become so overwhelming that over 70 percent of Nigerians have unwittingly bowed to the pangs of biting hardship. POVERTY is today a generic term and has been so since attempts at its classification by ...
In Miami, Donna Karan showcases Haitian artisans
In Miami, Donna Karan showcases Haitian artisans: At the National Retail Federation Awards in January, Karan said she's often asked why she's committed to working in Haiti. She said she believes that where there is creativity, there is hope. She called Haiti "the most hopeful place I know." Printable ...
People with HIV pay more for life insurance – if they can get it
People with HIV pay more for life insurance – if they can get it: "Testing HIV-positive is used to automatically limit or deny benefits. For instance, I handled at least one case where an HIV-positive individual who, though she qualified for cover, was turned down by an insurance company on the ridiculous ground that ...
Michigan has highest unemployment rate for African Americans in nation
Michigan has highest unemployment rate for African Americans in nation
Michigan workers were hit hard by the Great Recession but the state's African American
workers continue to suffer a far higher unemployment rate, a new
Economic Policy Institute Issue Brief finds, with Michigan's black
unemployment rate the highest ...
Vijayanagar residents oppose waste segregation plant inside park
Vijayanagar residents oppose waste segregation plant inside park
| After Banashankari residents, it is the turn of people in Vijayanagar to oppose the construction of the waste segregation plant inside the park in the M.C. Layout. On Thursday morning, residents, including morning walkers, staged a protest saying ... |
Several male, female KU students condemn segregation law Co-education ...
Several male, female KU students condemn segregation law Co-education ...
KUWAIT CITY, May 16: Several male and female students in their various
specialties at Kuwait University have unanimously condemned segregation law, wondering why the law is implemented in a university campus. The students are of the view that people ...
Kuwait to start medical care segregation on June 1
Kuwait to start medical care segregation on June 1:
| Kuwait is to bar foreigners from attending public hospitals in the mornings fronm June 1, local media have reported. Health Minister Mohammad al-Haifi, who is also a surgeon, ordered that the outpatient clinics at the public hospital in Jahra, west of ... | ArabianBusiness.com |
Jim Tortolano's Retorts: 'Immersion' or segregation?
Jim Tortolano's Retorts: 'Immersion' or segregation?:
| In Providence, Rhode Island, where I was born, there's an area known as Federal Hill. In a state with the highest concentrations of Italians in the whole country, “the Hill” is ground zero for pasta, wise guys and Sinatra music. It represents the ... | Garden Grove Journal |
30 years after HIV discovery, vaccine within reach
30 years after HIV discovery, vaccine within reach: But in other pockets of the globe, there are predictions the epidemic could end within the decade, thanks to assertive public health campaigns targeting sex workers, HIV-positive mothers and improved access to antiretroviral drugs. Michel Kazatchkine ...
HIV nurse slams Australia needle danger
HIV nurse slams Australia needle danger
AUSTRALIA is way behind the US and Europe in protecting medical workers
from sharp objects, says a former US nurse who contracted HIV and hepatitis C through a needle injury. Dr Karen Daley, in Melbourne to attend a nursing conference, says it is ...
Return of child soldiers alarms war-scarred Central African Republic
Return of child soldiers alarms war-scarred Central African Republic
Thousands of child soldiers were used in some of the heaviest
fighting of the battle which ended with the flight of former Pres.
Francois Bozize. The child fighters directly engaged troops from South
Africa, leaving some 14 South Africans dead on the ...
Chitradurga self-help groups impress Ethiopian team
Chitradurga self-help groups impress Ethiopian team
| Poverty-stricken Ethiopia,
an African country, is making all efforts for empowerment of people and
Indian model of self-help groups (SHGs) has come handy in its way of
development. A team led by Country Director of Send A Cow Ethiopia Aklilu Dogisso, ... |
Teacher's Aide Accused of Molestation, Infecting Student with HIV ...
Teacher's Aide Accused of Molestation, Infecting Student with HIV ...: ST. LOUIS (AP)- An Illinois special-needs teaching assistant accused of molesting a teenage student in school while knowingly infected with HIV remained jailed Tuesday as police investigated another claim of similar misconduct by the man ...
Free NGO, CBOs and International Organizations Membership for ...
Free NGO, CBOs and International Organizations Membership for ...: South Asian HIV & AIDS Network is the initiative of Youth in Action Balochistan established in December, 2012 and offering NGOs, CBOs and International Organizations to take part for fighting HIV & AIDS in Aisa, who work collectively to ...
US to train African troops for Mali in Niger
US to train African troops for Mali in Niger: Niamey - US military instructors in Niger will train African forces participating in a UN-backed offensive against al-Qaeda-linked Islamist militants in neighbouring Mali, senior military officers said on Thursday. The United States and several ...
Flagler's African-American Mentor Program Celebrates Another Year Against ...
Flagler's African-American Mentor Program Celebrates Another Year Against ...:
| He was facing a hall-full of young men—all but a couple of them African-American high school students, all of them either with their parents or mentors, all of them in the Flagler County school district's African-American Mentor Program, most if not ... | FlaglerLive.com |
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