Uganda government outlaws female circumcision
FOX 11 Tucson - Fri Dec 11, 6:19 am ETKAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan official says that parliament has passed a bill banning female genital mutilation.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan official says that parliament has passed a bill banning female genital mutilation.
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Teens in Wheaton - and the rest of DuPage County, for that matter - have their share of worries: Tests and school projects, relationships, social pressure.
The group Faith in Public Life has been doing a variety of good works, showing the many and varied ways that faith informs public policy, organizing prayer services and press conferences on issues from health care to immigration reform.
Foundation will provide $50,000 challenge grant to support HFTH's operating expenses in 2010
December 11, 2009: The UN has concluded that the primary problem with violence in eastern Congo is the illegal trade in illegal trade in valuable minerals. For example, Hutu rebel militias control the mining of cassiterite. While the major source is Bolivia, Congo contains large deposits.
COPENHAGEN -- Two top Obama administration officials arrived Wednesday at the U.N.-sponsored climate talks that opened this week offering both diplomacy and a tough line: The United States is willing to be a full partner in fighting climate change, but the real problem is with China and the...
HOUSTON----OYO Geospace today announced net income of $1.8 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, on revenues of $92.9 million for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2009. This compares with a net income of $14.2 million, or $2.31 per diluted share, on revenues of $134.5 million for the prior fiscal year.
CSU graduates Mark Kowalik and Kristen DeMint got on their bikes in May and rode 4,400 miles across the country.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century. Today, we’ll step back to 2002 with an interview indieWIRE’s Jacque Lynn Schiller had with Mira Nair upon the release of her greatly ...
MATTOON — Charles Laliberte, director and founder of the Northern Uganda relief organization, Children UP, will speak to the Exchange Club of Mattoon on Dec. 16.
Honduras' president-elect wants amnesty for ousted president Manuel Zelaya.
ATLANTA, December 10, 2009 – Xeko’s Elf Island (www.xeko.com), the award-winning kids’ entertainment brand specifically created to instill positive social and environmental values into the world’s future stewards while empowering kids to make a difference, is extending its “doing good” commitment through a partnership with Nationwide Children’s Hospital, one of the ...
(RTTNews) - Somali Information Minister Dahir Gelle said Thursday that the suicide bomber who killed over 20 people attending a graduation ceremony in the capital city of Mogadishu last week was a Danish citizen of Somali descent.
Matsiko Choir will perform African and western selections.
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A multi-partner research initiative has completed a draft sequence of the cassava genome and now plans to use funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue genomics studies aimed at improving the plant and protecting it from disease.