People
- Fri Jan 04 2008
United Nations World Youth Report 2007
The World Youth Report 2007 examines the challenges and opportunities existing for the roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world.
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Human Rights
/Migration
- Wed Dec 19 2007
UN calls for protection of migrants' human rights
United Nations officials called on all countries to protect the human rights of the world’s 200 million migrants, regardless of their legal status, stressing that they provide vital services to the States where they live, yet often face abuse, discrimination and even violence in return.
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Disabilities
- Tue Dec 04 2007
The right to decent work of persons with disabilities
Despite significant progress in recent years in improving their livelihoods, new efforts are needed to break down barriers that still prevent millions of people with disabilities from working and contributing to the economic growth of their societies, according to a new ILO report released for the International Day of Disabled Persons on 3 December.
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Human Rights
/Migration
/Gender
/Economy and Financial Affairs
- Fri Nov 23 2007
Farah Karimi is Oxfam Novib’s new director
As general director Karimi will become Oxfam Novib’s new face in the Netherlands. She will represent the organisation internationally, in Oxfam International as well as with partner organisations in the South.
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Indigenous Peoples
- Thu Nov 22 2007
Tribals distressed by ban on forest gathering
The magical trill of the Nilgiri Whistling Thrush deep in the jungles of this remote southern Indian wildlife sanctuary is no comfort to its nearly 2,000 Soliga aboriginal tribal families.
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Human Rights
/Health
/Gender
- Wed Nov 21 2007
Vatican: Pope lashes out on abortion
Pope Benedict XVI accused international agencies of promoting abortion in Africa and blamed “disordered notions” of marriage and the family for the spread of sexually transmitted diseases there. The Vatican has in the past criticized the human rights group Amnesty International for backing a woman’s right to an abortion in the event of rape or if her life was in danger.
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Migration
/Gender
- Wed Nov 21 2007
Sri Lankan domestic workers face abuse
Human Rights Watch said the governments of Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates should do more to protect women from labor exploitation and violence when they migrate to the Middle East.
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Society
/People
- Mon Nov 19 2007
Bangladesh cyclone survivors urgently need food and shelter
Tens of thousands of people in Bangladesh urgently need food and shelter after the cyclone. Combined with the massive loss and damage to crops – estimated at between 50 - 95% in coastal zones – it will have immediate and long-term devastating effects on one of the world’s poorest countries.
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Infancy and adolescence
- Mon Nov 05 2007
Statement on child labour in GAP
Brand buyers have a responsibility to ensure that their sourcing and purchasing practices don’t encourage sweatshop abuses and child labour.
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Human Rights
/Gender
- Thu Nov 01 2007
New phase in the fight for global safe abortion
More than 700 public health experts, government representatives and activists from over 60 countries attended a global conference that renewed commitment and strengthened alliances for expanding access to safe abortion care worldwide.
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