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Women and Sustainability: Global Advocates Concerned by Language About Women and Reproductive Rights
After days of negotiations, world leaders and the over 50,000 participants at Rio+20 will be presented with a draft outcome agreement, known as “The Future We Want.” The draft, which will be finalized on Friday, will be presented to heads of state at the end of the conference and will likely serve as the framework for future…
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I DIDN’T KNOW I WAS PREGNANT…..
I have been watching the show “I didn’t know I was pregnant” on TLC for some months now and that show makes me so emotionally…..stupid…in tears…..sorry…..pity……I have tried severally to stop watching the show but I can’t. It’s so educative and I have learnt so many things and now I wonder……..and I am still wondering……..…
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MOTHER FORGETS 5 WEEKS OLD ON TOP OF CAR AND DRIVES OFF……CRAZY!
I remember driving away with my mobile phones on top of my car, I remember also on another occasion, leaving some books on top of my car and driving off, but not my BABY! A Phoenix, Ariz., woman put her 5-week-old baby on top of her car in his car seat and drove away, apparently forgetting he…
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TWIST IN TALE……BABY BORN WITH KORAN.
Did you read the story of a baby that was born with a Koran in his hands? well, I did on a popular blog, Linda Ikeji’s blog. Sincerely speaking, I didn’t know whether to believe it or not. but well there’s a twist to that story and well, since I love crazy stories, I decided….without consulting…
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INTEGRATING HEALTH SERVICES……..for the lives of mothers
Getty Images There is growing interest within the global health community in the potential public health impact of integrating different health services into a single delivery setting. Integrating programs for HIV, family planning (FP), and maternal, neonatal, and child health (MNCH) would address patients’ multiple needs at once, and may enhance program effectiveness and efficiency.Integration…
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JONA, JONA….MORE ACTION!
Getty Images The UK Government is working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and partners to host a Family Planning summit in London in July 2012. The event will aim to generate unprecedented political commitment and resources from developing countries, donors, the private sector, civil society and other partners to meet the family planning…
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FATHER’S DAY…..ROSES AND CHOCOLATES OR NONE?
Getty Pictures We may be an annoyingly patriarchal society……..yes, very, very annoying, but it seems that we have gone all out lately to celebrate women and mothers in particular. We all notice that whenever it mother’s day, we witness shops, supermarkets, shopping malls decked with promotional campaigns and television screens flooded with special songs (sing…
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WOMEN UNDER REPRESENTED……."DON’T THEY WANT THE MONEY"?
Fourteen years ago, the gender breakdown for behind-the-scenes employment in the top 250 films was 83% men and 17% women. By last year, women had improved their representation — ever so slightly. In 2011, the division of labor in the same number of movies was 82% men and 18% women, according to a San Diego State University study…
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FAROUK CHAPTER 1 VERSUS 1 TO 26….according to saint farouk.
Hahahaha read this. 1) And it came to pass after these things, on the first day of the first month of the twelfth year after the second millennium, that king Jona son of Bele announced to the people saying; there is no money left in the royal treasury, and the future of the kingdom is in…
