It said that gender equality benefited both women and children and was pivotal to the health and development of families, communities and nations. Nasir said the report reflected the feelings of the entire humanity. He called for empowering women, and said that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) had always advocated women’s rights.
The minister called for the elimination of domestic violence, and stressed the need to empower women financially. Shahida Azfar, chief executive of the Family Planning Association of Pakistan, said that the maternal mortality rate was still very high in Pakistan.
Now, if you have access to condoms, I do not suggest you go ahead with a circumcision… all joking aside, this finding - - is remarkably important.
However, it is NOT a substitute for condoms, proper sexual education, and yes, abstinence. I know that everybody wants doctors and scientists to come up with a vaccine, or even better a “wonder drug”, but in most parts of the world, especially in the African continent, a circumcision may be the only chance of maybe escaping, , being infected by HIV.
I am not a fan of circumcision, but if it works… I rather people have access to microbicides instead.
Improving the rights of women can boost child survival, especially in West and Central Africa, which have the highest rates of child mortality in the world, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) said on Monday.
“Gender equality and the well-being of children go hand in hand,” Esther Guluma, UNICEF’s regional director for West Africa, told reporters as the agency released it’s State of the World’s Children 2007 report. “Healthy, educated and empowered women have healthy, educated and confident daughters and sons.”
Here is a great article from , which highlights the sheer ignorance and arrogance of the U.S. when it comes to global warming. And England & Australia aren’t exactly saints, if you know what I mean. Mark my words for it: Africa will be the first country to truly experience the full effects of global warming.
Africa Is Burning Roxanne Lawson and Elizabeth Bast December 04, 2006
Elizabeth Bast is an International Policy Analyst at Friends of the Earth-U.S. Roxanne Lawson is an International Policy Campaigner for Friends of the Earth.
The effects of the Great Warming are not fairly shared. Fourteen percent of the world’s population lives in the 57 countries on the African continent. However, because the majority of Africans live with little to no access to electricity and personal transport usage is among the world’s lowest, Africans contribute only 3 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
The United States, conversely, with only 5 percent of the world’s population, contributes nearly 25 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas pollution annually. In the United States, with our consumption of electricity, our ecologically harmful industries and our 230 million passenger vehicles, we are literally fueling the destruction of the planet’s environment.
Last month, at the United Nations Climate Change summit in Nairobi, Kenya, climate change experts from around the globe reported to 165 countries on the impacts of global warming, which will be felt most harshly by poor developing countries. If that weren’t bad enough, the former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern recently released a report that suggests that global warming could shrink the global economy by 20 percent over the next 50 years. From the report and the summit, it is clear that climate change is as much a humanitarian, security and economic issue as an environmental one.
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