Tell us a bit about yourself, your journey that led to The Fred Hollows Foundation I live in Melbourne, Australia and I have lived here all my life. I am married to a guy who I met when he was on holidays here from Germany. Hes a Chef and we have two children a...
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Ananke Girl Summit welcomes 300 guests in MENA regions first ever digital summit on the girl child
November 5th, 2020. Dubai (UAE): Ananke a digital platform empowering women through awareness, advocacy and education welcomed 300 guests on October 29th, 2020, at the MENA and Subcontinent regions first ever digital event focusing the girl child. The event was not only largely attended by women and girls, 99 percent of the guest...
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Ananke To Host First Ever Digital Girl Summit in the Middle East & Subcontinent
October 20th, 2020. Dubai (UAE): The youth is an unstoppable force leading positive social change globally. Making up half of this population, girls are amazing agents of change within their communities and beyond. Observing #DayOfTheGirl in the month of October, Ananke is organizing a digital event The Girl Summit on October 29th, 2020 with the...
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Every Girl is Ada
From the 10th-17th October 2020, Teens In AI ran their annual Ada Lovelace Hackathon in recognition of Ada Lovelace Day. This exciting event brought together students from all around the globe to develop innovative AI solutions to the most pressing healthcare and societal challenges facing the planet. Attracting 130 enterprising young people from around the...
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Rose Academies Launches Fellowship Program for Ugandan Youth
Wakiso (Uganda): Rose Academies Uganda announced the launch of a unique fellowship program that will bring healthcare education using state-of-the-art technology into rural communities that lack internet access. Every year millions of infants die before they reach 28 days of life, primarily from preventable causes. Rose Uganda Fellowship Program was specifically developed to address...
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Concrete steps sought from govts to push world out of crises
The members of the Major Groups and Other Stakeholders, official stakeholders to the United Nations Sustainable Development processes, are concerned and disappointed that governments have failed to deliver a Ministerial Declaration at the end of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The forum was held virtually from July 7-16, 2020. ?We attended...
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Women Gain Key Economic Benefits from Greater Trade, World Bank Study
July 30, 2020, Washington (USA): Trade increases women’s wages and helps close the wage gap between men and women while creating better jobs for women, a new World Bank Group report concludes. Countries that are open to international trade tend to grow faster, innovate, improve productivity, and provide higher income and more opportunities to their...
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Fast tracking the Elimination of Hepatitis B Among Mothers and Children
July 27th, 2020: The proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under one percent in 2019 down from around five percent in the pre-vaccine era (the period between the 1980s and the early 2000s), according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO). This...
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Smart phones are empowering women worldwide
June 27th, 2020, Montreal (Canada): By giving women access to information they otherwise wouldn’t have, mobile phones are transforming lives. Putting smart phones in women’s hands could be a powerful tool to support sustainable development goals in the developing world, according to researchers from McGill University, University of Oxford, and Bocconi University. The study published...
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Call To End Violent Threats and Anti-Rohingya Campaign In Malaysia: Fortify Rights
May 11th, 2020, Bangkok (Thailand): The Government of Malaysia should immediately address hate speech and violent threats against Rohingya refugees, Fortify Rights and 83 other organizations said in an open letter to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. In April 2020, hateful messages targeting the Rohingya community in Malaysia proliferated social media platforms, causing widespread fear of physical violence and...