Friday, October 14, 2011 Weekly Women's Update Welcome to the Council on Women and Girls Weekly Highlights! A lot of exciting accomplishments for women were highlighted here at the White House recently, and across the world this past week. All three Nobel Peace Prize winners were women from Africa and the Middle East, we were visited by female soccer and basketball all-stars, the First Lady's Lets' Move! program attempted to beat a Guiness World Record and the … [Read more...]
Weekly Women’s Update: Women All Stars!
October 14, 2011 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: AMERICAN [U.S.A.], SELF CARE, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Africa and the Middle East, American Jobs Act, and Dr. Jill Biden, and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Celebrating Achievements, Council of Women and Girls, Creating Pathways to Opportunity, Domestic Violence Advocacy, Jennifer Aniston, Kathleen Sebelius, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, Take Action, The Department of Veterans Affairs, The Nobel Peace Prize winners, The Whitehouse, U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, violence against women., Weekly Women's Update: Women All Stars!, Whitehouse, women taking action, women.
Avaaz – Libya: Stop the crackdown
February 23, 2011 by admin
Hundreds of democracy protesters are being massacred by the air force and military in Libya. The UN is in emergency meetings right now and could freeze the regimes assets, impose a no fly zone, and threaten trials in international courts. Tell the UN to act now to stop the bloodshed: In Libya, armed forces are using machine guns and fighter jets against pro-democracy protesters -- hundreds have been killed and, without immediate international action, it could spiral into a national … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CA-- USES Tagged With: (UNSC), A Celebration of Women, a freeze of Qaddafi's, Africa and the Middle East, Al Jazeera, Brazil holds the UNSC Presidency, Choas and bloodshed in Libya, Colonel Qaddafi, condemn the shocking massacres, hide the brutal violence., his family's and his high command's assets, international prosecution, Libya, military officials involved in the crackdown, no-fly zone over Libya, people of Libya are being slaughtered, split Qaddafi's command structure, stop airforce bombings, targeted sanctions against the regime, The United Nations Security Council, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, women in action, women in Lybia, WOMEN of ACTION™
