WOW! WHY THESE REMARKABLE DADS PROUDLY MAKE REUSABLE SANITARY PADS
In a story first published on Compassion Australia’s blog, CAROLINE MWINEMWESIGWA and ROZ WALSH look at how a program training people to make sanitary pads for girls in Uganda not only addressed the issue of “period poverty” but changed mindsets…
Millions of disaster victims left ‘hidden in the shadows’, says IFRC
Thomson Reuters Foundation Humanitarians must actively seek out millions of people who are hit by crises like floods, earthquakes but are left “hidden in the shadows” and without aid, the world’s largest relief network said on Wednesday. The United Nations estimates some 134 million people will require aid in 2018, but only about 97 million […]
ASIA BIBI: “A VICTORY FOR PAKISTAN AND MILLIONS OF MARGINALISED PEOPLE”
World Watch Monitor reports on the acquittal of Asia Bibi and reactions to it…
Pakistan PM appeals for calm after Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy
World Watch Monitor Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has urged the nation not to let a fraction of people incite them to take the law into their own hands over the decision of the Supreme Court to release a Christian woman who had been facing the death penalty for blasphemy. The security situation in Pakistan […]
Updated – Asia Bibi acquitted after eight years on death row
Updated 9.10am, 1st November, 2018Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi has been acquitted of charges of blasphemy after eight years on death row. The mother of five was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to hang. Bibi, also known as Aasiya Noreen, was accused of defiling the name of the Prophet Muhammad during a dispute […]
STRANGESIGHTS: A DISGUSTING MUSEUM (REALLY!); THE “FLAUNT YOUR WEALTH” CRAZE; AND A UK BOOKSHOP’S TOUCHING MOMENT…
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
What pay gap? Men less aware of women’s workplace struggles – US survey
Thomson Reuters Foundation Far more men than women think their companies offer equal pay and promote the sexes equally, yet younger generations are wising up, a US entertainment industry survey found on Monday. Only a quarter of women think their employers pay them the same as men, while twice as many men believe their company […]
African countries should ‘decolonise’ water, recognise customary rights – report
Thomson Reuters Foundation African governments should recognise customary rights to water for millions of small farmers who have been sidelined or “criminalised” by permit systems created during the colonial era, said a report published on Monday. Restrictive permit systems in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe have left more than 100 million people without […]
Evangelical organisations call for prayer for kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu
Three key evangelical organisations have issued a joint call for the Nigerian Government and international community to increase efforts to free schoolgirl Leah Sharibu, among more than 100 students abducted from a high school in the country’s north-east in February. In a statement released on Tuesday, the World Evangelical Alliance, Association of Evangelicals in Africa and […]
COLOMBIA: AVIVAMIENTO MEGACHURCH HOPES FORMER FARC REBELS WILL GET RELIGION
JULIA FRIEDMANN, in an article published by Religion News Service, reports on how a Colombian megachurch is reaching out to former FARC combatants…