- Phasing Out User Fees.
THE U.S. CONGRESS in October made it official policy for the United States to oppose the inclusion of user fees for primary healthcare and education ......
- Web 2.0 Tools for Social and Professional Use
Standard practice for librarians and information professionals is to look for new and improved methods of communication. We're in the business of information sharing. Thus ......
- Enmeshed in alien troubles
HEADNOTE As 2004 gets underway, Africa faces some old problems - and not a few new ones. Most of them are totally unconnected to the ......
- Desert Children
Desert Flower (1998, not reviewed) told of the author's personal experience with FGM as a child in Somalia and of her escape to England; it ......
- Circumcision
Circumcision has never been so enjoyable. Gollaher (Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix, 1995) offers a fascinating and comprehensive history of the ......
- Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A...
The tale of a courageous woman's struggles to come to terms with her Somali childhood, including her experience of female genital mutilation (FGM). Dirie ran ......
- Build on the Skills & Knowledge that Nurses will...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43707 ) has announced the addition of Advanced Clinical Skills for GU Nurses to their offering. This book has ......
- Tv Review: 'defending Our Daughters'
"Defending Our Daughters: The Rights of Women in the World" is a sobering reminder of television's power to enlighten us without necessarily entertaining us. This ......
- Moolaade
CANNES -- Sembene Ousmane, the 81-year-old father of Senegalese cinema if not African cinema itself, directly confronts the scourge of female genital mutilation in "Moolaade." ......
- Moolaade
CANNES -- Sembene Ousmane, the 81-year-old father of Senegalese cinema if not African cinema itself, directly confronts the scourge of female genital mutilation in "Moolaade." ......
- Williams-Garcia, Rita. No laughter
here.
Harper Collins, Amistad. 133p. c2004. 0-688-16247-9. $15.99. J Akilah Hunter is spending her tenth summer looking forward to the return of her best friend Victoria ......
- Gift Of Time
Busy industry women take time out to support philanthropic causes ......
- New publication on FGM from the
RCN.
The Midwifery Society of the Royal College of Nursing in the UK has published an educational resource for nurses and midwives on the subject of ......
- Zero tolerance for FGM.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] UNFPA is urging the international community to back its pledge for Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) by intensifying advocacy and ......