Unemployment in Britain has surged by 49,000 to nearly 2.5 million, including one in every five young people – putting the number of 16- to 24-year-olds out of work at close to a million, the highest since records of youth unemployment were first kept in 1992. The rate of joblessness among 16-to 24-year-olds is now …
One in five young people out of work as jobless total hits 2.5m Read More »
Last year the General Council met and created U.N. Women an agency with a mission to improve gender equality and empower women. Letty Chiwara, head of UNW’s Africa division, said in a recent interview withKaiser‘s Daily Global Health Policy Report: Gender equality is key to women’s health, in order to provide assess to the services they need. …
By Samantha Khan One of the most brilliant literary minds, Oscar Wilde, once wrote, “The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.” Although written in 1895 it perhaps holds more truth today than it did then. The United Nations has declared 12 August 2010 to 12 August 2011 “International Year of Youth” in …
Correspondence: Making the most of the International Year of Youth Read More »
The Dark Side of Chocolate is a documentary film by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano about the continued allegations of trafficking of children and child labor in the international cocoa industry. Co-sponsors for this event include Global Exchange, DC Fair Trade Network, Virginia to Stop Modern Slavery, and others. Panel discussion including Tim Newman from …
More than half of all sexually transmitted infections, other than HIV, (more than 180 million out of a global annual total of 340 million) occur among young people aged 15 to 24. Yet most young people still have no access to sexual and reproductive health programmes that provide the information, skills, services, commodities, and social …
We can empower young people to protect themselves from HIV Read More »
TreeHugger has good roundup of the rather sorry slate of environmentally-themed documentaries at Sundance this year. Not to belittle any of the films that are playing—I haven’t seen any yet—but it seems that the fest is a little thin in this department compared to past years. The standout looks to be The Last Mountain, a documentary about …
TreeHugger has good roundup of the rather sorry slate of environmentally-themed documentaries at Sundance this year. Not to belittle any of the films that are playing—I haven’t seen any yet—but it seems that the fest is a little thin in this department compared to past years. The standout looks to be The Last Mountain, a documentary about …
The Associated Press reports today that the Global Health Fund, a $22 billion development fund to fight AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy of the United Nations, sees as much as one-third to two-thirds of some grants eaten up by corruption. The AP reports that at minimum, …
Celebrity-Backed Global Health Fund Finds Evidence of (Massive) Corruption Read More »
Maybe it’s ironic, the day after health guru Jack LaLane dies of pneumonia, a new vaccine to prevent pneumonia is being rolled out across Africa: The Gavi Alliance, a global health partnership of public and private sectors for immunisation, says 19 countries will get the jab at first. Kenyan children have begun receiving it and Sierra Leone, …
New Pneumonia Vaccine Launches Today in Africa. Lives Will Be Saved Read More »
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