GARIN GOULBI, Niger, 29 May 2012 – In Garin Goulbi, a small village more than 500 kilometres from Niger’s capital, women have taken the lead in protecting their families and community during the country’s dire food security and nutrition crisis, which has left more than six million people across Niger facing food shortages. According to UN experts, successive droughts in 2005, 2010 and now 2012 have pushed families to the brink. UNICEF and the Government of Niger recognized that families … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2012
AFGHANISTAN – transition house for women leaving prison in Kabul
May 31, 2012 by
AFGHANISTAN - transition house for women leaving prison in Kabul 30 May 2012 - Emini, who is 20 years old, is one of 14 female residents of the House of Hope, a Kabul-based transitional house for women leaving prison. Pardoned by President Hamid Karzai's decree on 8 March, she is one of the newest inhabitants of the house. Originally sentenced to three years in prison for running away from an abusive husband and his family, Emini hopes that her defence lawyer will help her to be granted a … [Read more...]
Bahamas: Wendy’s restaurants fight human trafficking
May 31, 2012 by
May 2012 - Wendy's Bahamas, a franchise of the Wendy's international fast food chain, has joined with the United Nations Global Initiative To Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) and the new Bahamas National Trafficking-in-Persons Task Force to launch a unique "anti-trafficking-in-persons" tray liner in its ten restaurants in Nassau and Grand Bahama. For a month, all Wendy's Bahamas restaurants will serve food on tray liners that explain to people the different forms of human trafficking, … [Read more...]
Elsa P: May 31, 2012 – Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius – Variety Show!
May 31, 2012 by
Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius - Variety Show! Thursday, Mars in Virgo squares Mercury in Gemini, and you may want to argue and challenge the ideas of others. With the Moon conjunct Saturn in Libra, you'll probably feel pressured to be polite about it, and to be fair. I think this bodes well for all social interaction. Friday, the Moon slips into Scorpio, in easy aspect to Neptune in Pisces. This is a psychic combination but to take advantage of it you'll have to avoid considerable … [Read more...]
WOMEN in RECOVERY – Letting Go
May 31, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women Take all emotions and put them on the shelf, walk into the future and say to yourself: " I AM WOMAN & I AM WORTHY!" _________________________ An Affirmation for Letting Go Larry James I am willing to trust. I know that to the degree I am willing to give up my search for a healthy love relationship, I can have it. I know I can have whatever I am ready and willing to receive. Individual receptivity is everything. Without it, nothing changes. With it, … [Read more...]
INSPIRATIONAL WINDOW – Woman of Peace
May 30, 2012 by
A Woman's strength is most potent when robed in GENTLENESS. ~Alphone de Lamartine Gifted by Lore Raymond Find Lore here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683815068 … [Read more...]
EGYPT, Cairo – Landmark Cairo Population Conference
May 30, 2012 by
ISTANBUL—Lawmakers from 110 countries reaffirmed today their support to the principles and goals of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), emphasizing their continued centrality to efforts to reduce poverty and safeguard people’s health and rights, including sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights. At the fifth global parliamentarians’ conference on population and development, held here on 24-25 May, some 400 delegates, including more than … [Read more...]
Sahely Ferdous, Superintendent in 100% Female Formed Police Unit, Haiti
May 30, 2012 by
Sahely Ferdous, Superintendent in the Bangladesh Formed Police Unit, Haiti The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, commemorated each year on 29 of May, is an occasion to salute the 120,000 peacekeepers serving in 17 missions in some of the world’s most volatile and dangerous environments. In the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), the Bangladeshi contingent is composed entirely of women. Leading by example, the 102 women contribute to restoring … [Read more...]
WOMAN of ACTION – Bothiana Kamel *Egypt
May 30, 2012 by
A Celebration of Women has been inspired to Celebrate the Life of yet one more freedom fighter, advocate for Women's Rights and all round powerhouse of a woman. With tireless efforts, this woman has been working for years in the public services of a very delicate envirnment in EGYPT. This WOMAN of ACTION is now their First Female Candidate for Presidency for EGYPT. "By putting myself forward I am making this democratic right – the right of a Woman to be President – a concrete reality, … [Read more...]
The ‘Drag’ and the ‘Flow’, Medicin for Mother Earth Video
May 30, 2012 by
Restore me to Balance in Body, Mind, and Spirit. Balance is found in respecting Mother Earth... Remove everything from my consciousness and body that is not in perfect alignment with your loving plan for me. Can You Relate? Sometimes, when I go to a big event I notice this strange feeling of what I can only call desparation. There is a shadow neediness in the air- a sense of fear, struggle and grief. I call it 'the drag'. The ‘drag’ is what pulls you under, takes you away … [Read more...]
