Update: Welcome Crooks & Liars readers! Most people do not read, nor care, about global health & human rights, but with your support, this sad state of affairs *might* change!
I always find it fascinating that the U.S. media screwed Al Gore over and over again with the “I helped invent the internet” comment (which he kind of did), but gloss over every time President Chimpy screws up the English language - which turns out to be every time he is in front of a microphone.
Anyhow, here’s an article by Al Gore, . Jeez, we really do need someone with brains in the White House ASAP!
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.”
To say the least. According to the latest UNICEF report, , “poverty, violence and discrimination assault women worldwide and undermine their children’s futures.”
UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman said in an interview.
“When you empower women,” Veneman said, “you benefit children.”
This is no surprise. According to the , maternal education has a greater impact on the reduction of child mortality than parental education.
I told you I was going to curse on this blog. Get a load out of :
Ice is melting so fast in the Arctic that the North Pole will be in the open sea in 30 years, according to a team of leading climatologists.
Ships will be able to sail over the top of the world and tourists will be able visit what was, until climate change, one of planet’s most inaccessible landscapes.
Researchers assessing the impact of carbon emissions on the world’s climate have calculated that late summer in the Arctic will be ice-free by 2040 or earlier - well within a lifetime.
I live on an island, and I don’t even want to imagine what may happen if coastal water levels rise by 10 or 20 feet. We need to act on this .
How many studies and news articles do we need to have lined up in order to convince (Senator Inhofe, bonafide conservative idiot) and that global warming is here?
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Global carbon emissions rose nearly 3 percent in 2005, up more than a quarter from 1990 levels despite many governments’ pledges of cuts to fight global warming, a scientist who provides data for the US Department of Energy said.
“The rate of acceleration is quite phenomenal,” said Gregg Marland, senior staff scientist at the US Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), which supplies emissions data to governments, researchers and NGOs worldwide.
“Half of all emissions have been since 1980. I think people lose track of the rate of acceleration. You tend to think of (this as) something that’s been going on — it’s not,” he told Reuters late on Thursday.
Human Rights Day , which was December 10, is an appropriate time to review a serious human rights crisis here in the United States: The fate of people from the Gulf Coast—particularly from New Orleans—displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Our nation’s greatest natural disaster—and the man-made crisis that followed—were on an unprecedented scale. More than were uprooted from their communities after the storm, and over 300,000 from New Orleans alone are still displaced over one year after the levees broke.
[…]This idea is supported by the U.N.’s , the internationally approved framework to protect human rights before, during and after being displaced by a humanitarian disaster.
May you roast in hell, Augusto Pinochet. And say hi to all of history’s war criminals for me while you are there.
, the one you never received on Earth:
Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile’s democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled the nation for 17 years, died today. He was 91. Pinochet had suffered a heart attack a week ago. Chile’s government says at least 3,197 people were killed for political reasons during his rule, but Pinochet escaped hundreds of criminal complaints because of his declining physical and mental health.
Oh, poor him. I surely hope the people of the U.S. learn and don’t let George W. Bush of the hook as well.
Much to the surprise of most Canadians and the world community, Canada is reneging on its international commitments under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which could weaken an international agreement to fight climate change after Kyoto expires in 2012.
I wonder what could possibly have happened in Canada that led to such a change? It seems the people of Canada are in favor of vigorous action against climate change.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, elected early this year, and the new environment minister, Rona Ambrose, have dismissed Canada’s Kyoto commitments for reducing greenhouse gases as impossible to achieve.
They have also cancelled a five-million-dollar pledge to help least developed countries adapt to the impacts of climate change and have withdrawn Canada’s participation and funding of the Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
Impossible to achieve…? You mean without offending the business sector, which just like in the U.S., refuses to believe that investing in preventing the worst calamities of climate change is actually in their best interest.
Never in the history of mankind have men - or women and children for that matter - have had any rights, written on paper and backed up by the power of government, so I can see why some folks in the U.S. still have the primitive, caveman, Bush-like mentality that upholding established, international human rights agreements like the or the is somehow against the interest of the United States. For example, here is one of the stated reasons of why the Bush administration - along with the usual conservative idiots in the U.S. Senate - :
“The Convention on the Rights of the Child may be a positive tool for promoting child welfare for those countries that have adopted it. But we believe the text goes too far when it asserts entitlements based on economic, social and cultural rights. … The human rights-based approach … poses significant problems as used in this text.”
Very enlightening, ain’t it?
Posted below is a great article called Bringing Human Rights Home, from .
The challenge faced by the medical and scientific community stems partly from the nature of the causative parasite which is unlike other organisms that cause infectious diseases. ‘’Until now, we don’t have a vaccine against parasites; only against bacteria and viruses,” Morel said. ‘’The malaria parasite is very smart.”
By the way, the blood parasite which is spread by mosquitoes, is very, …
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