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| Women Often Disenfranchised from Human Rights |
This reflective article from Rwanda reminds us that women have been systematically denied human rights, through not fault or choice of their own, but simply for as they are born. It is an approrpriate refute to whining comments by some sectors that only their group is targetted for special treatment.
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| 28 Countries To Attend World Peace Forum Jakarta |
The Islamic non-political organization Muhammadiyah and the Multi-culture Society are organizing the forum to take place 14-16 August. It is expected over 50 religious and political figures will attend. The conference will be considering questions relating to justice e.g. backwardness, suppression, poverty.
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| Amnesty International: Recognition Human Rights World's Indigenous Peoples Long Overdue |
Amnesty International calls for support for the forthcoming 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the UN Declationa on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This would give Indigenous peoples the right "...to have meaningful control over their own lives, to maintain their distinct cultural identities, to live free from discrimination and the threat of genocide, and to have secure access to the lands and resources essential to their well-being and ways of life."
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| Aussies: Working to Make Indiginous Poverty History |
The 2005 "Make Poverty History" campaign mobilised millions of people to work and pray against poverty for the world's poorest, especially on the African continent. But some church campaigners and other parts of Australian society have reminded us that there is still poverty of indigenous people that needs to be rectified.
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| China working hard to resolve energy crisis |
The Chinese government is working hard to conserve energy whilst still developing a robust economy. From 1980 to 2000, China's energy consumption growth was halve its economic growth, but this positive trend has since deteriorated.
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| Canada: 16th International Conference on AIDS |
As well as the reported United Nations conference in New York, another conference is scheduled for 13-18 August 2006 in Toronto, according to Ekklesia. "Faith-based participants at this, the world's largest HIV/AIDS conference, intend to examine how they will deliver on their promises - and they will also challenge government and other players to keep their promises through ecumenical and inter-faith pre-conferences."
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| Tutu: God is crying that God's children can do this to one another |
Wise Tutu is quoted as saying "...South Africans had learned there would never be true security from the barrel of a gun... It was only when everyone felt their human rights were recognised and acknowledged that there would be a peaceful Middle East." There needs to be a divine vision that transcends the existing paradims, for example Isaiah 5:8 which cautions: "Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land."
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| United Nations Hosting First Global Conference on AIDS |
New York - The United Nations opens its first global AIDS conference today, aimed at combating a disease that is killing five million people annually worldwide and leaving untold numbers of children without homes or parents. "It's telling that 20 years into this epidemic, we can't even name the vulnerable groups and do something for them," said Joanne Csete, a public health expert for the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
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| Africa: AIDS Bigger Brain Drain Than Emigration |
Frank Feeling, the author of a US Boston University study comments: "Policymakers might be tempted to focus on stopping emigration as the best strategy to strengthen the African civil service... Undoubtedly, the pay of health professionals is low and the burden of disease in the population makes the job difficult. But the dead do not complain about conditions of service... It is time to put more effort into keeping HIV-positive professionals alive and serving in national institutions."
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| Hope Amid Gloom Australian Aboriginals' Health |
ABORIGINES are less likely to die of bronchitis, emphysema or stroke than they were 20 years ago, Northern Territory doctors have found, in a rare positive glimmer amid the generally worsening picture of indigenous health. The turnaround contradicts widespread pessimism about Aboriginal health and should stir governments to invest in further improvements.
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