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Women leaders in governorates fight online abuse, misinformation Community initiatives include legal clinic for cybercrime victims, digital literacy training for citizens, social media campaigns for teens and cartoons for youth By JT - Mar 04,2021 - Last updated at Mar 04,2021 Participants are seen during the Training of Trainers in Musa Saket Development Organisation in Balqa on July 9, 2020 (Photo courtesy of IREX) AMMAN — After completing a skill-building programme in digital literacy, cri...

[Photo: Shutterstock] In 2008, five years before his death, former New York Mayor Ed Koch paid $20,000 (Sh2 million) to a cemetery to secure a place for his burial. Funerals, just like weddings, can be expensive as you want them to be. A report in the Journal of Human Development in 2013 found that 63 per cent of poor families in the Kenyan society blamed funerals for their poverty.  In 2019, the late University of Nairobi lecturer Ken Ouko said the African culture is to blame for the chock ...

 E-Mail (Bergen, Norway): Today, the Holberg Prize--one of the largest international prizes awarded annually to an outstanding researcher in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology--named American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as its 2021 Laureate. Nussbaum is the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She will receive the award of NOK 6,000,000 (approx. EUR 585,000 / USD 705,000) during a 9 June ceremony at the Universit...

If it passes and becomes law, the American Rescue Plan Congress is considering would pit the great need Americans have for economic relief in this pandemic against those who insist the bill must include abortion funding, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairmen of seven USCCB committees.

Presented by Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs With help from Erin Banco. On Tap — NIH makes moves on Covid-19 therapy research. — Medicaid rebate change nested inside relief legislation. A message from Coalition for Affordable Prescription Drugs: The Trump Administration’s prescription drug “Rebate Rule” will raise seniors’ premiums by up to 25%, skyrocket government spending, and will not deliver the lower drug costs that patients need. It should be eliminated to protect...

Share this article Share this article MINNEAPOLIS, March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Children born to women taking certain medications for epilepsy during pregnancy have no developmental delays at age three when compared to children of healthy women without epilepsy, according to a preliminary study released March 4, 2021, that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurologys 73 rd Annual Meeting being held virtually April 17 to 22, 2021. Most of the women with epilepsy in the study took eit...

March 5, 2021 The Gamma Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Washington State University is accepting applications through April 1, 2021 from undergraduates for 2021-22 scholarships that cover full tuition costs plus mandatory fees. Students from all WSU campuses are eligible to apply. “The Gamma Chapter is very pleased to once again offer scholarships that recognize and foster excellence in liberal learning at the undergraduate level,” said Kim Holapa, chair of the chapter’s scholars...

Zambia Launches 2020 Human Development Report Format Lusaka, 5th March 2021 – The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest crisis facing the world, but unless humans release their grip on nature, it won’t be the last, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which includes a new experimental index on human progress that takes into account countries’ carbon dioxide emissions and material footprint. The Report, which was virtually launched in Zambia today, lays o...

Pandemic relief bill must pass without abortion funding, bishops say Catholic Charities staff and volunteers in the Archdiocese of Washington distribute 500 grocery boxes and 500 family meals in the parking lot of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception July 10, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn) By Julie Asher • Catholic News Service • Posted March 9, 2021 UPDATED — WASHINGTON (CNS) — If it becomes law, the American Rescue Plan ...

1731st, 1732nd Plenary Meetings of General Assembly: 23rd Session Preview Language:   Original 02-Dec-1968 00:31:03 The General Assembly discusses the Internationsl Year for Human Rights, the policies of apartheid in South Africa, the problem of the human environment, and vote on two draft resolutions at the 1731st and 1732nd plenary meetings of the 23rd session. Available Language: Original