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Bauchi The Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has expressed determination to collaborate with Community Action for Popular Participation (CAPP), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), to train teachers on promotion of girl-child
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Tunis Mrs. Bebia Bouhnak Chihi, Minister of Women, Family, Children and Elderly Affairs, chaired on Tuesday in Tunis the closing session of the Arab conference on 'Fighting Violence against Women, a Consecration of Universal Values.' On the occasion,
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Some of the Somali educators in abroad have Wednesday opposed the US military involvement to Somalia, just days after the Americans said they will take part the military operation that the transitional government planning to take over the control of the
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California benefactor chooses to extend support for global impact SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 10, 2010 - Mayo Clinic is forming a new permanent professorship to augment cancer research that will focus on finding new treatments and preventive
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Attached please find a press release on: The Aluminum Association's Cans for Causes Program is excited to assist high school student to kick off a recycling program this spring. The program will be called, 'It's all about LOVE, The perfect match.' LOVE
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UK-born Matt Webb, who is currently doing an internship at groundwater consultancy Umvoto Africa in Cape Town, has won the prestigious Entec hydrogeology prize. This annual award is presented to the University of Birmingham student with the highest marks
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Luanda Angola's deputy minister of Education for General Teaching and Social Action, Ana Paula Ins, on Monday in Viana district, highlighted the gesture of the US embassy of providing internal scholarships for children at Horizonte Azul centre, Angop has
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UNITED NATIONS — Because men wield much of social, political and economic power in many poor and developing countries, achieving gender equality and reducing violence against women will demand their active participation and cooperation. That message
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Children are going bananas to promote fair trade. Staff from Sainsbury’s in Durham visited Finchale Primary School in Newton Hall to hand out bananas as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. Deputy store manager Vicki Mains said: “Bananas are the most popular
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- Gender equality and women’s empowerment are fundamental to the global mission of the United Nations to achieve equal rights and dignity for all. This is a matter of basic human rights, as enshrined in our founding Charter and the Universal
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The AfDB joined the international community to celebrate the International Women's Day. As part of the event, the AfDB organized a major event in which its Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Nkosana Moyo, presided over the celebrations on behalf
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- The Virgin Atlantic group is proving to host a unique spirit that shows “giving is indeed better than receiving”. 63 ‘Virgins’ were on this philanthropic mission in which they cleared four days from their calendar to climb Mount Kenya. Their
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(JANA) The Women Affairs of the General People's Congress Monday issued a statement on the occasion of the International Women's Day in which it dismissed the International occasion as a lie. The Women Affairs said Women's participation in the decision
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No! The society needs the media, just as it needs banks, the manufacturers. Are those things not businesses? So for as long as the media performs the role society wants it to perform, it must be successful on its own. And the first measure of success is financial success.
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The Vice President of the Senate Marie Mukantabana(L) being presented with a gift from Gicumbi District Women at Cyumba Sector. (photo/ A.Gahene) GICUMBI - Women parliamentarians under their umbrella organisation, Rwanda Parliamentarian Women Forum
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Children are going bananas to promote fair trade. Staff from Sainsbury’s in Durham visited Finchale Primary School in Newton Hall to hand out bananas as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. Deputy store manager Vicki Mains said: “Bananas are the most popular
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Children are going bananas to promote fair trade. Staff from Sainsbury’s in Durham visited Finchale Primary School in Newton Hall to hand out bananas as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. Deputy store manager Vicki Mains said: “Bananas are the most popular
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NEW YORK — The Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) – an organization established after the Beijing Conference, 15 years ago – met on March 5 at the New School in New York to celebrate and to discuss ways for mobilizing women’s rights and
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He has put his body and soul in his pastoral work in a practical way aided by his expertise in social work. His commitment to the community in Fort Portal ...
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As we celebrate the International Women's Day on Monday, we should applaud a mother, human rights activist, advocate, politician and civil society leader for the national and international recognition she has won.
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Today March 8, is International Women's Day- a day when we need to reflect on the achievements of the women's movement. In many parts of the world, as democracy developed, women didn't have the same political rights as men. In America for instance, women
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MORE and more mothers in Tanzania are now turning to breastfeeding following reports of contaminated baby milk, it has reliably been learnt. “Much as we don't have statistics, the increased consultations and questions we are getting from mothers about
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Fruit supplier Dole Fresh UK is urging companies in the fruit sector to go Fruity Friday and raise money for World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), a cancer prevention charity. Dole Fresh UK, the first headline sponsor of WCRF’s Fruity Friday campaign,
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KIGALI - An imminent ‘negationists’ network’ operating in Rwanda suspected of coordinating Genocide convicts with fugitives abroad and posturing as a local Human Rights organization, has been exposed by its members after a fall out. Rwandan
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GRAVELY ILL: Kwaito star Brown Dash is said to have pneumonia BAD RUMOUR: Mdu Masilela. Picture by Simon Mathebula Former hi-fi kwaito artist turned low-fi muso Brown Dash is gravely ill. Brown Dash, christened Simphiwe Mpamile, has been off-colour for