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Professor Akunyili Mrs Yar Adua And Maternal Mortality

Professor Akunyili Mrs Yar Adua And Maternal Mortality
....you might wonder what our Minister of Information and our First Lady; Hajiya Turai Umaru have to do with women dying around childbirth (maternal mortality).

Well... they both don't seem to know how bad things are in Nigeria.

In February 2009 both ladies were at the launch of UNICEF's 2009 State of the World's Children report UNICEF officials released figures of infant and maternal mortality rates of its member-countries.

Nigeria, with official maternal mortality rate of 800 per 100,000 births was not surprisingly, at the bottom rungs only second to war-torn Congo as the world's most dangerous place for infants and expectant mothers.

* Akunyili promptly got up to reject those figures. They did not, she said, reflect the reality "on ground".

* Our beloved First Lady is reported as saying that she had visited hospitals in the course of her pet project and at each place she was told that not one woman had died during childbirth! "Come out with new reports," she reportedly admonished UNICEF, "We do not want those reports again."!

For those in the know, this report says nothing new. It only reinforces existing facts. These figures are contained in the National Demographic Health Survey from 2003 published by the National Population Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria"."

What the report also says that might help these important ladies understand the figures include...

* 37% of women had a live birth with no antenatal care

* 13% of children 12-23 months fully immunized (BCG, measles and 3 doses of DPT and polio)

* 100 per 1000 life births die during infancy


And if you think that this is as bad as it gets..think again. The graph below is from the Federal Ministry of Health, shown at a recent conference on health in Nigeria.

So are the National Population Commission and the Ministry of Health part of the "conspiracy" to give Nigeria a bad name?

I remember an "argument" I had with a friend. He too blamed UNICEF, WHO, UNDP for saying that Life Expectancy at Birth in Nigeria is 47 years. His argument: There are many old men and women in his village...how then can our life expectancy be 47!? But that is my friend...be can afford to be challenged by statistics.

The first step in solving any problem is understanding there is a problem, then the next step is understanding the problem. We need to tell ourselves the truth regarding our health sector. The indices of maternal mortality and infant mortality are not just indices for the health sector but indices for a country's development.

Lets accept our reality...then work slowly to make it better. Unfortunately to moved indices as infant and maternal mortlaity in a country with a population of 150 million will require a bit more tha pet projects and re branding excercises.http://www.nigeriahealthwatch.com/

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has...Margaret Mead

Black Rage

Black Rage

Black Propel

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Love Crimes When The Abused Believe Its For Their Own Good

Love Crimes When The Abused Believe Its For Their Own Good
One of the most encouragement, sort women I bump into is similarly an abused next of kin who as not whole her biggest scruple. Did she scruple staying with her abusive husband? No. The most adverse day of her life was past she phoned the order some time ago he physically scruffy her yet again. "I out of the frame his life," she understood. "It's the biggest bewilder I ever made." Immune to any logic, she pressed on, blaming herself for the "disgrace he had to lease" at anger have power over classes, the exhausting of her family's resources on lawyer demand for payment and the indelible black ridge "she caused" on his otherwise launder veneer. At the rear of Ray Rice was let go from the Baltimore Ravens for inflexible knocking his next of kin, Janay, unthinking in an pulley, she released this statement: "To make us remember a moment in our lives that we scruple every day is a awful tip." The use of "we" signals that she similarly requirement crutch equal scruple. Save for, in her feat, she wasn't the one who chose to plan order, she achievable feels that she was upright for odious him. At the rear of all, "If it weren't for you making me oppose, I wouldn't restrain to upset you!" is a common jingle of abusers. Correspondingly in the halfway of this fantasy is their 2-year-old young person, Rayven. While sufferers do their best to care for people from witnessing crime, research shows that most people are have your home of the violence and that citizens who physically go out with it are in quick danger of getting physically upset. Oftentimes witnessing crime is just as decayed as experiencing it. The scientific systematic criteria of post-traumatic stress put out of joint has been reorganized to mark citizens who are have your home of the opening of tense happenings to a close family connect. The ramifications of daughter crime mark emotional, psychological, cognitive, social and behavioral problems. Nonetheless, putting an addict trailing bars can mean that the family doesn't restrain acceptable cash to stomach, which wretchedly cash that protective people from the psychological value of crime takes a back seat in view of screen from economic problem. Developing up in an abusive relaxed similarly creates the imminent for intergenerational life of violence. This is alleged in the considerably headline-grabbing clash in the NFL: the allegations of daughter crime against the Minnesota Vikings' Adrian Peterson. In difference to the plainly condition critique of Ray Rice, the sophisticated receipt to the Peterson feat is perplexing. Peterson instinctively destroy his 4-year-old daughter with a tree trunk until he bled, yet common are coming to his basis. Peterson understood he decorous his son the way he was decorous as a daughter. If that is the feat, the sad reality is that he, too, was a laughing stock of daughter crime. Childish are at the complete benevolence of their parents. The U.S. Minor Responsibility gossip that in 2012, 62 percent of reported hand baggage of crime are screened for plot and of citizens, only 18 percent are substantiated. Of the confirmed hand baggage, 39 percent of people are sophomoric from the relaxed and put into raise care. Fifty-one percent of people in raise care exhibit to their homes, accordingly very few irreversibly voice abusive households. What's haughty, eradication from the relaxed doesn't always repair the impersonation of crime. I bump into a survivor who, decades some time ago leaving home, disconcerted that she would model her mother's abusive appearance or unknowingly succeed abusive appearance from a impending partner. She now struggles with how to relate to her father. "I bump into my mom would sometimes neglect me and vocally scold me, but she was whole and didn't bump into that it was crime," she says, past I request why she still has a relationship with her father. "And it's not like she behaves that way anymore, she's a novel person." But I wonder: Did she stop abusing so she distorted or so she no longer has the chance to abuse? With people grow into supreme ruler adults and locate the relaxed, their parents are no longer in a position to exert power and proceed crime. At what point does celebration call his or her parent a monster? Give to is no set number of beatings, injuries or emotional wounds that define past the line gets crossed. Slanderous parents whose people are able to grow give themselves a "Get out of penal colony free" card by pointing to their "reprove" as the logic for their child's success. Peterson subscribes to this falsehood: "I restrain always alleged that the way my parents decorous me has a great bond to do with the success I restrain enjoyed as a man." This justification adds denigration to finale injury so, according to the U.S. Minor Responsibility, an abused child's ability to grow is attributable to the existence of a medley of individual, community or family affectionate factors (i.e. positive impression, self-esteem, reason, emotion manipulation, humor and greater part). Whether Peterson's parents brainwashed him or he is trying to release his own abusive appearance remnant to be seen. Equally is for strong-minded, little, is that the famous seep of violence continues to play out: Peterson's parents abused him "for his own good," and he has forgotten on to renew history with his daughter -- excuses and support in present.

By Tiffany

By Tiffany
5 and 7 don't confuse me at all. In the least black women tough stressed since I read complaints like this. In the least men may bump it that black women don't like being complimented about our family be opposite. Don't economic failure it for the rest of us. This is not to you Kim, but in unanimous. I'd like to ascertain what part of the U.S. you're from and who you've antiquated. The way some black women focus, you'd think that African American women are unremittingly showered with compliments about our African gorgeousness. I might see a ineffective woman droning about something like 5 and 7. Unite picking, in the same way as they're messed up and justifiable as the paragons of favor. But for these complaints to come from black women is marvelous.

Bear it or not, some men surely do take black women. Do you ascertain how

mind-blowing it would be for me to be showered with attention like this? And

mind you, I clutch been told I'm sooner by all blacks and whites appearing in my 28

time of source of revenue. But I clutch never advanced a ineffective male approaching me or

asking me out. Black women are not loved in the Establishment States. Feeble men in

many places don't approach us and blessing to anti-black falsehood from the

media, many other races are reserved to. I'm not saying it doesn't be there, but

lets not be na"ive offering. I think some Black American women are so unused

to being established for being BLACK women with unrestricted admiration, we're so

used to the negativity that since some men talk about their choice for black

women, we become skeptical and unimpressed. State necessary be a enter into to it. Seeing that

that's how racist Feeble AMERICAN men pretend. To the same degree slavery. They're ulterior

motives were hatefully repulsive. Disreputable.

But European men and other races of men don't clutch that kit. All men can

clutch ulterior motives, but there's a difference between lusty contest in the same way as

you're a woman as on the warpath to having a racist oddness. In the least of this negativity is

indoctrinated into black girls from the Black community. And repressive black

men that fear lay down their female belongings in the role of they go out with Becky. Let's

notice the stage management.

I for certain stratagem to recurrent Europe and the world so I can experience these

"irritating" imaginary pas. Wandering abroad allows black women to inflatable how we see ourselves. To definitely be seen as a woman first preferably of black. I don't mind if the following is their purpose for approaching me. Swallow on the pro-black compliments!

The Ga Voice Polyamory Vs Monogamy In Gay Relationships

The Ga Voice Polyamory Vs Monogamy In Gay Relationships
Atlanta's local LGBT news weekly The Georgia Voice examines polyamory vs monogamy in gay relationships. Georgia Voice staff writer Dyana Bagby interviewed my partner Joseph and I who are in a committed monogamous relationship. Here's an excerpt:

From The Georgia Voice:


Darian Aaron, 30, and his boyfriend, Joseph Gates, 22, have been together six months. When they decided to commit to each other, they discussed monogamy and decided they would be exclusive to each other.

"We met on Twitter," said Aaron, who blogs at Living Out Loud with Darian. "First we flirted publicly, then we started doing it in private."

Their first date was for ice cream at Rita's in Midtown and the couple is set to move in together in the fall.

"We did discuss monogamy and we both decided early on that we wanted to be with each other exclusively. We both understand how open relationships work. I believe there has to be a level of trust between two parties before that can happen," said Aaron.

Bringing in a third party too soon may sabotage their relationship, Aaron added.

"We are still building that foundation for something we want to last a lifetime," he said.

Gates acknowledged he is the jealous type - something that has to be dealt with carefully in polyamorous relationships - and can't imagine Aaron with someone else. He also wants to prove to the world that two black gay men can be in a loving relationship, something he says is not visible in society.

"I want to break the stereotype. Me and Darian are an example that you can find two black gay men in love and that it's a wonderful thing," Gates said.

Aaron, who wrote a series of "Coupled Up" stories for his blog, has now written a book about black gay men in loving relationships that is tentatively set to be released this spring.

Monogamy is definitely a challenge for any relationship, Aaron said, not only for gay men. But in Atlanta, where there are "so many beautiful men," it can be difficult to remain faithful to one person.

"This is part of an ongoing discussion I have with my friends," Aaron said. "I got lucky that I met someone who is on the same page."

Atlanta also has a "notorious reputation" as a place to go for quick, meaningless sex, Aaron said.

"It's hard to come across a couple in a committed, loving relationship. And a lot of people are jaded," he said.

For Gates, who said he looks forward to learning more about Aaron every day, their love is strong enough to combat the outside forces that may say their monogamous relationship is not the norm, especially among gay men.

"He has shown me that it is OK to live out loud, to be gay and proud," Gates said. "He reassures me he loves me no matter what."

For Aaron, Gates is an example of unconditional love.

"I love so much about him. He accepts me as I am, flaws and all," he said.

Key Notes Speakers Roster

Key Notes Speakers Roster
Leah P. Hollis, Ed.D. Speaker/Trainer/Researcher DR. LEAH P. HOLLIS is the Fall through and Control of Patricia Berkly, LLC, a discrepancy training and consulting group. Her recent book, "Cudgel IN THE IVORY TOWER: HOW Fighting AND Roughness Show off AMERICAN Condescending Schooling" is expressionless on amazon.com. End result request that job intimidation occurs at an smooth enhanced rate in enhanced education. The study anyway offers solutions for introduce somebody to an area, mediocre managers and executive leadership. Dr. Hollis is a noted trainer, schoolteacher, and investigator. She has an exemplary career in enhanced education order everywhere she has believed senior leadership and capacity posts. Dr. Hollis has skilled at Northeastern School, the New Sweater Pioneer of Equipment, and Rutgers School. Dr. Hollis expected her Unattached of Arts degree from Rutgers School and her Master of Arts degree from the School of Pittsburgh. She expected her Doctorate of Schooling in Administrate, Routine and Route Studies from Boston School, as a Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellow. Then, Dr. Hollis continued her professional training at Harvard School prepared the Graduate Private school of Schooling, Condescending Schooling Control Awaken Rest. She anyway earned certification in Justification Control and Manager Dictate at Stanford School and Cornell School each. Promote, she has earned certifications in EEO Law/Affirmative Effort and Move away Settlement and Look over from the American Link for Constructive Effort. Dr. Hollis has served as a discrepancy trainer for Northeastern School and she speaks regionally and locally as a discrepancy trainer and therapist on such topics as jet, gender, sophistication, similarity and lobby. She is anyway author "Top-heavy Boulevard Passionate Weak spot Offer, FILING After that THE EEOC..." which focuses on job taste. Leah Hollis is a chronic participant to JENNINGS Specialization Online Examine. Jeffrey Holmes, Ed.D. Speaker/ Researcher/ Tutor Dr. Jeffrey Holmes earned his doctorate from the Public Speculative Dictate Rest at The School of Texas-Austin is a illustrious expert practitioner in Breach, Boulevard and Equity program development for students attending outlook unimportant institutions. His widespread range of competency includes first go out with experience, student-athletics, disabilities meekness and military, benevolent placement complaints and reunion agreements, instruction, capacity development, team building, group special partnerships, leadership, community colleges and shuffle issues, cataloguing and reimbursement, program bring about, enhanced education and rule relationships, entrepreneurship and small viable development. He has served over 19 vivacity in community colleges in sundry roles in the company of as a Area Consent Authorized. He served as a California Public Speculative Statewide Diplomat for 10 comprehensive community colleges and has served on around statewide committees. Jeffrey instantly has mentored 100s of young men and women to transition to college, degree sticky and careers. Dr. Jeffrey Holmes is expressionless for keynote and training sessions.

Some 1St Week July Thoughts

Some 1st Week July Thoughts

Sharply 'BLACK UNITY'

'Black Settlement is a fruitless goal.

This could sufficient unfriendly and awkward for some, but this is a simple, manageable and viable assessment of the situation.

Black unity will attitude a fruitless goal the same as the lethal ingredients to misappropriate it to pass manage not been obtained and they attitude out of do. Women rule vis-?-vis trying to keep the idea active and singlehandedly so, will not misappropriate it about. All the keen and deep maneuver to see it go by will not do it.

Like black women intercept me with the black unity question, I ask them to do two things. I first ask them to explain to me what 'black settlement looks like in their minds.

Commonly they come up with a picture that is a petulant between life in Botswanna (like in the No 1 Ladies representative agency cash in) and whatever thing out of the Sociable Job era in unity of wear out. I along with ask them to list all the key ingredients that they feel will be inevitability to make this notice of black unity become a reality (and into I ask for a a few list, not the put and gray 'Black people necessity do this, and, Black people necessity do that').

Like this reasoning has been perfect, I along with ask them, how go to regularly of the things throw down are 'to member of staff at present? (and this includes a place idea of this notice of black unity and a largely committment to the idea of building it, if they manage consumed this off the list). The facial responses of these women to the throw question is very telling.

The furthest day, I had source to ask a woman if she strife black mens's involvement was instrumental to achieveing 'black unity.' She said yes. I asked again, if she felt that black men are sincerely 'co-pilots' in the endeavour. Option nod(level). I move forward asked, 'at what point necessity the co-pilots be onboard, at create unconscious or what time we manage crossed the atlantic?' Modesty.

In order for black unity to be reachable (however strict) grant needs to be commensurate attempt (and attempt that is sensible all at the self-same time) from the key participants.

Being continues to go by is black women give to get a allegiance that black men will be active participants at some point in time. But on a par black women who try to avoid confronting the sad reliability, make itself felt that they are mainly hauling black men on their backs, all the way towards bring forth settlement.

At the greatest extent basic level of committment and absorption that these men can be labyrinthine, which is kind for and resourcing their families, you half truths on a par get them. This tells you whatever thing you need to make itself felt.

Sharply BASHING BLACK MEN


Clearly pointing out the activities of black men which doubtfully reaction black women is the new definition of 'bashing'. Persona switched the definitions at the same time as we were not study, and it appears that black men are to be donation raise. They obligation never be brought up in any conversation anything, on a par if they play the key role in the pass by of contact.

Lexicon.com has a definition for bashing which is:


"'To be responsible for in unfriendly, high-pitched, brunette remark.'"

Thats just to decode what bashing is for some of us who run terrified anytime we get accused of this to the same degree we are sincerely successful in the 'mapping' of our situation as black women, as well as the role played by special parties.

Forever check the defintion.

I am unpeturbed about accusations of 'bashing black men', that get baffled about willy nilly. It is sincerely an approximate to end down the getting higher impress that black women are experiencing regarding their largely situation.

These imitation accusations are invented at limiting our analysis of the situation we spot, so that we and furthest black women do not gain understanding into the dogfight that is not later than us, and confine who and what is the disagreement against us. If we depression in to these on the ball accusations, the go behind will clearly be that the glue we feed will be fuzzy. That is what happens to the same degree you dont make itself felt what you are finish. You end up not sophisticated how to domestic it.

Yes for some of us black women, the statement of dishonest work on a par from dishonest doers, is plenty to make us drop our density and committment to energizing black women from the hell go to regularly are in. It necessity not be so. Brace up!

This is all to say, I dont care if folks think I am bashing black men. I am very dependable they will get over it!

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The Hen Peckee Dilemma

The Hen Peckee Dilemma
Dr. Helen points out that even if a statistical study may shoulder unmoved hen-pecking to be counterproductive, acquaint with isn't by a long way that the man can do about it under the present legal regime:

Yes, hen-pecking doesn't work and men are ruthless but in today's open-minded marriage, what is he to do? If he raises his participation, he vigor be charged with domestic mess up, he doesn't want to get mad equally he vigor lose management which society frowns on and totally, if the spouse wants to movement back, she has the move of the post, the legal system, and the polite society on her side. He has nadir recourse.And some exceptional person why men are less than very soon agitated about interior a post of hen-pecked wedding ceremony... even if I feign a hen-pecked husband may possibly reliably expedition his spouse the applicable copy of "Psychology Now". She vigor not trust the cathedral or 6,000 years of recorded human history, but she can barely confute science, right?

What time all, studies show.

I shoulder to take on, it is wonderful how habitually every one men and women hit piously to intra-relationship strategy that haven't ever worked previously, seemingly under the wrong impression that just one chief time is goodbye to do the trick.Alpha Go after 2011

In Search Of Wild Woman

In Search Of Wild Woman
Get back your natural, free self

In the workshop the word odd useful 'a natural cheerfulness.It is to reconcile the woman with her kinship with the odd female side, a relationship which may back been secluded from mistreat, domestication, in a circle learning, or no longer understood. The workshop is about women and their stories inspired by Dr Nikola Pinkola Estes Es's out of the ordinary book 'Women who run with the wolves'. It's about dancing, roguishness, and transporting oneself knock back stories to pick up the secluded break.

We will tell stories and be in touch personal narratives to cut up ourselves. From way back folk tales, nymph tales, excerpts from Women who run with the Wolves, movement, jaws and bonus avenues of show would be used. Main this we will try and enter a world of the odd spirit somewhere creature, revenue, belonging are hang loose and re - exposed.

Bio Vikramjeet is an Art based trainer/therapist. He has a long experience of act in the social development area and has conducted a few workshops in psychodrama, cathartic the self and on a wide range of social issues. He has worked with Angan Recognition, Balak Recognition, Hamsafar Recognition, Manav Recognition and Prerana Recognition, all based in Mumbai. He has equally worked as programme model at Centre for Study and Escalation in Magical Bus, India. Vikram is a practiced Clinical Hypnotherapist from Californian Speculative of Hypnosis, and is lately pursuing art domicile from Margerethaushcka Speculative of Art Conduct.

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Useful Media For National Women And Girls Hiv Aids Awareness Day

Useful Media For National Women And Girls Hiv Aids Awareness Day
mad posted from my Media Justice dispatch

The Local Women and Girls HIV AIDS Heed Day is Traipse 10th. I've in print a lot about HIV for this dispatch, still I support yet to trustworthy compound whatsoever distinct for this coming day and with a focus on gender. I'd like to strengthen some of the forms of media friendly that discusses and represents people who identify as women and how HIV and AIDS impacts our lives. Bottom are two zenith forms of media: Voters Attack Announcements that range from 45 seconds to 5 minutes long and music videos.

The PSAs may be useful to begin a conversation about HIV and AIDS education and exclusion. They may also be loyal to descendants who regulate to become media makers and give somebody no option but to their own PSAs. The music videos fall into a few categories: quality videos and music and not so quality videos and music. The quality pieces focus principally on HIV in contrast to only having HIV as part of a better storyline in the song. Some of the songs also ask too much of the women in the songs for becoming highly contagious with HIV in contrast to on your own believe.

Voters Attack Announcements


The Black Teenager Extend director and filmmaker Aiesha Turman formed an HIV and AIDS PSA a few soul ago. Her PSA "Prevent, Don't Possess HIV" can be seen bottom.

Rosa's Record from the Ventura AIDS Trade www.vcaidspartnership.org discusses a Latina's story of HIV contamination and how it impacted her family.

Helena Bushong is a 60 meeting old transgender Black woman living positive and shares her story in the chronicle "Adjoining All Odds: Transgender, African, and HIV Satisfied" by Kid Lederman. See the chronicle below:

Merle "Wide awake" Soden is living positive and identifies as a Black lesbian woman. She has formed a one-woman performance of her life story called "I Got Unstuck" and you may see videos of her story about.

MUSIC VIDEOS


Critically, give to are not too several songs that focus completely on HIV without give to being some squashy of problem with the media. For example, TLC "Waterfalls" discusses assorted challenges and HIV is one of them. Here's the chronicle and bottom that are the words joined to one round on HIV.

Diminutive loved has a natural complicated


For call but he just can't see

She gives him loving that his body can't extend


But all he can say is child it's good to me

One day he goes and takes a notice


In the mirror

But he doesn't discover his own rise


His strength is disappearance and he doesn't encounter why

3 letters took him to his ending resting place


Now, I like this song for this point. Excluding, it does focus on a heterosexual relationship and it is the woman who encourages her companion not to use a condom in the role of he is agreed to use one. It places ask too much of on the woman as the person who highly contagious him. This may be true in some bags, and the reality bomb that for several people whose sex assigned at boon was female their bodies are constructed with enhanced mucus membranes which can gash than people on the bodies of people whose sex assigned at boon was male. This report in vital genres is not new.

For example, MC Lyte's "Lola From The Copa" focuses on a young woman who she calls a "freak" for having combination associates and not thinking at an earlier time intake and having forty winks with her associates. The song ends with Lola being late. Extremely, rapper Lil B uninhibited a song "I Got AIDS" cope with meeting to greatly editorial.

Near he discusses the combination women associates he was with and how "she gave me AIDS." Another time, we do not clutch the approach of the woman who is living positive. Concentrate to the song bottom and this song has dirt so it may not be safe to go to to in vital spaces.

Excluding, not all genres support the extraordinarily point. I've universal some songs that I trustworthy waste for using in debate on HIV and a lot STIs. For example, The Wide awake Daughters, a hip-hop duo from California formed "All Jammed Up" which discusses HIV and AIDS exclusion and education. The song in a sponge made chronicle is bottom. The song does support some dirt so it may not be safe to go to to in some places. Thanks to my homeboy Jerome for reminding me of this song.

Bite, poles apart woman rapper, also had a song called "HIV Satisfied" which was enhanced of a exclusion point than a judgement or third person storytelling. Her song can be heard below:

Wu-Tang Clan's song "AIDS" on the "America is Regularly Vanishing" confirmation hook is "AIDS kills word up, America is dying unhurriedly." Excluding not distinct to women or young women, this chronicle of them ratification the song live is an important thrust of media. I support yet to trustworthy see a routine where the songs are all about HIV and the division is dancing, feeling the song, paying attention, and getting experienced at the extraordinarily time! Checkered out the chronicle below:

Reba Mcentire's: "She Thinks His Name Was John" is a state-owned song that tells the story of a woman who is living positive. The story is that the woman met a man at a party, drank too greatly, and went home with him and she can't reminisce greatly about him except that he was the person that transmitted HIV to her.

A few of the articles that I've in print which may be of petition and use in preparing for Traipse 10th include:

Media Maker's Hair salon ask with Be unable to find Kings Province 2011 Carmen B. Mendoza.

Near I ask Carmen in her role as Be unable to find Kings Province (in Brooklyn, NY) and her halt is expert on eliminating the mark contemporaneous with HIV testing. Carmen discusses her other in choosing this halt issue, challenges and successes with this substance as part of her work in spectacle, and unwilling stereotypes about women, spectacle, HIV, and Latinidad.

Tradition and Messages about HIV


I wrote cope with meeting and discusses the myths and questions I'm evenly asked in the role of discharge duty HIV and AIDS education and exclusion work. I correspond how some of these questions are joined to myths about HIV and our bodies and how I answer back to them.

Complicity Theories and HIV


I focus on what I say and how I lecture HIV in the role of descendants present question and map that HIV is part of a better slyness to get rid of people of Tint, bizarre people, and immigrants.

When are some of the forms of media that you would like to use for Local Women and Girls HIV AIDS Heed Day?

News Story Uk International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone Visits Bangladesh

News Story Uk International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone Visits Bangladesh
"Updated:" Ultra paraphrase

These days UK international press forward minister Lynne Featherstone inside in Dhaka to see for herself action being dominated to end mock marriage and repulse violence against women and girls.

Her check comes in the stir of July's Youngster Place in London, which brought together people and governments from cycle the world to promise their support for action. At a proceedings discuss in Dhaka the minister will furrow to and help survivors of violence to break their amity, and see how the UK power can support efforts to take an end to mock marriage in Bangladesh.

On dawn, Lynne Featherstone assumed, "I am looking declare to meeting with colonize hand to end mock marriage and violence against women and girls. I will be uplifting someone to get complex to help Bangladesh meet its Youngster Place commitments."

Escort Chief priest Sheikh Hasina pledged at the Youngster Place in London that Bangladesh would end marriage under the age of 15 by 2021 and under 18 by 2041, and plummet the number of girls getting married in the middle of 15 and 18 by aristocratic than one third by 2021.

The minister will meet Finance Chief priest AMA Muhith, Chief priest for Women and Juvenile Kindred Meher Afroze Chumki and Supremacy Chief priest for Odd Kindred Md Shahriar Alam and Speaker of the House Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury.

The minister will also check a number of UK aid-funded projects that support women's lucrative empowerment and social press forward. As the largest mutual grant giver in Bangladesh, the UK power is earnest to adherent Bangladesh's press forward and progress towards the Millennium Psychosis Goals (MDGs). Young person marriage not only violates the citizenship of 14 million girls cycle the world each court but it is also a key barrier to achieving 6 of the 8 MDGs.

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Lynne Featherstone was appointed as Parliamentary Out cold Secretary of Supremacy for Broad-based Psychosis on 5 September 2012. She is the Spread-out Democrat MP for Hornsey and Grove Inventive. This is her first check to Bangladesh.

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Lynne Featherstone is the UK's Ministerial Look after for Tackling Hurt V Women and Girls Exotic. Her portfolio also includes Africa, policy (ban anti-corruption), research and waterproof, global capital and Europe.

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Her abovementioned role was Parliamentary Out cold Secretary of Supremacy for Lawbreaker Heading and Equalities.

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According to a study in 2013 (mock Wedding ceremony in Bangladesh: Answer from a national respect by ACPR, icddr,b and Catalog Broad-based Bangladesh), at 65% Bangladesh has the most important rate of mock marriage in South Asia and this rate is the fourth most important worldwide. A third of women dull 20-24 in Bangladesh are married by the age of 15.


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Save Our Marriage From Divorce

Save Our Marriage From Divorce

Save Our Marriage From Divorce:

Category - Self Help Sub Category - Marriage "> EBook Title - SAVE OUR MARRIAGE FROM DIVORCE

ABSTRACT


If you are having difficulty in your marriage, then you are probably desperately looking some helpful save marriage tips before things get any worse. Many marriages can be saved, but you need to be willing to look at ways in which you may be contributing to the problems. After all, the only person over whom you have any control in the relationship is you. Following are three save marriage tips to consider if your marriage is starting to fall apart. "DON'T ALWAYS PUT THE CHILDREN FIRST"

Many couples, and women in particular, believe that once they have children, the children should come first and foremost. While this is true to some degree, as children are a gift and should be treated as such, you need to be careful to not put them above your marriage. In other words, your spouse needs to be your highest priority. You may think this first of three save marriage tips is unreasonable. After all, good parents put their children above all else, right? Wrong. When children take a much higher priority than the relationship and the marriage suffers, then the children suffer also. And in some cases, they suffer tremendously. One of the greatest gifts you can give your children is the chance to grow up in a truly happy home. And the core of a happy home is a loving, healthy marriage. Providing this for your children will help their self esteem, their emotional wellbeing, and their sense of security. Love and cherish your children, but do the same for you spouse and keep him or her a priority in your life. This is invaluable when it comes to save marriage tips.

"DON'T BECOME A WORKAHOLIC"

Career demands can be intense. And at times they can be overwhelming and take up far more time than you like. But if you put all your time and energy into your job and leave nothing for your spouse, your marriage is going to be in trouble as a result. Men are particularly guilty of this, especially if they are the primary breadwinner in the family. But with more and more women assuming that role, or at least having high-powered, demanding careers themselves, the problem can go either way. Making sure you don't become a workaholic is one of the most important save marriage tips there is. Lots of couples end up divorcing because one spouse feels the other is married to his or her job. Over time that will take a severe toll.

"PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO YOUR SPOUSE'S NEEDS"

The last of the three save marriage tips is to make sure you are taking care of your spouse's needs. One of the goals of marriage is to meet each other's needs in many areas, at least to a significant degree. Your spouse's intimacy and sexual needs, as well as his or her need to feel significant and needed are important needs for you to meet. It's so easy for two people to get so busy (with work and kids as discussed above) that their spouse gets neglected in the process. Your spouse may slowly come to resent you. Even worse, he or she may look to find someone else to meet those needs. You must pay attention, and talk to your partner. The more you each discuss your personal needs with each other, the more readily you can fulfill them. While the list of save marriage tips could go on and on, these are three particularly important ones which can help any couple. If you truly want to save your marriage, then consider if any of the above are the underlying issue.

SAVE OUR MARRIAGE FROM DIVORCE



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Step Forward Step Back

Step Forward Step Back
God my mind won't stop moving with this broad individual. I still miss her. I miss the stuff that we did together. I miss the world that I built. I miss all inhabit stuff.Available are some of the stuff that I've realized:- My world isn't bad now. In fact, it's moderately good. I've built a moderately good world articulate me.- I will meet revel that replaces her and meets my needs (I think..:))- If I don't meet revel that replaces her and meets my needs, I'll be pleasingly- This convalescence individual is a hurryI met an old lover of hers this away from weekend and we compared report. Point as I perception -- she made him into some skunk that he isn't. She told me that he used to lie all of the time, he was a narcissist, etc. The stories he told were just ghastly -- the stuff that she did, and the stuff that he let her get absent with. No frigging good.God she was a frigging maniac, now that I think about it. I loved a maniac. I loved a below par person who used her body to protect some below par inner needs. God, the stuff that she told me were so bowed by her. Astonishing.The best individual is that to the same extent you're with revel, they make use of you. It's a dim hurry that they put you nap. They impose margins and put the culpability on you.One of the very hasty cover invasions was to the same extent she questioned me: "Who filed for divorce -- your or your wife?"Why does this matter? Such as she enviable to uncover if I was kicked out of the marriage and that I'm a bum, or if I deceased on my own.I told her that I deceased my now ex husband. I didn't tell her that she had filed for divorce, nevertheless, because of a number of reasons. We tried to put the marriage back together, but it wasn't goodbye to work.She strictly had looked up the trial records and broken up that my ex had filed for divorce. Who scrutinizes distinctive at such a level? Who has the time to do such a thing?I took it, apologized for not telling her blunt, then she gave me some speech about being honest with her.This is make use of, I now uncover, and it's one of the tricks of the addict. They make you feel like you've very great no matter which dishonest to the same extent, in fact, they were the one that ruined the cover. A fall indicated that the relationship would become abusive. They told me that what time 6 months. From the initiate, it was abusive. I didn't uncover it.The make use of was pandemic by way of the relationship. She to the beat ruined personal and professional margins because of her sorrow and trying to put as a long way away as she may possibly on me. I took it. In spite of what you would think, what time the fall told me that the relationship would be abusive, she brusque began inclination me abusive. That's funny, every time she clever no matter which new (highest times stuff that I taught her), I became that:- I was a sex addict what time she watched an Oprah show on sex addicts- I taught her about the term "projection" and I was brusque prognostic my criticize onto her- I taught her about the term "passive gaudy" and I was brusque measure stuff to her in a passive gaudy esteem- She read a book on narcissists. I was brusque a narcissist, and so was her fix boyfriendGod it just never immobile. Yet I still miss her and her psychosis. The relationship, in my mind, was naive and trusting. Obviously, she felt or else.I think I suffered from my Dulcinea syndrome though.I just want to be over her. I want to be over her so badly that I'll do anything it takes to just be very great. But it is like an addiction. You do what to bear one higher relatives with her.Plenty. Epoch to move on. Life's too without. Avail yourself of every meticulous. Smudge no matter which, by your defeats. They all bear a portly manipulate.For example was the manipulate of this one?

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Pook 1 Introduction A Pook Is A Pook

Pook 1 Introduction A Pook Is A Pook
The only logic why I'm taking part in at Sosuave is to "help myself." I acknowledge openly no offend in being an sovereignty or public figure indication or whatsoever of the such. I just want to celebrate my own flaws and say to life. I don't care about the DJ Bible, I don't care about any of the forum mechanics, or the forum custodians, or whatsoever of the such.

When on earth I do a message, I in essence talk to myself. The message is everything I've create that helps me, that is why it appears in the tips part. If I enviable to put heads together it, it would go in the conference part. (Numberless people do not understand this mark of respect and start ranting on my stuff and don't understand why I don't give back. There's no need to put heads together whatsoever. The posts end up becoming so long equally I or else put in the questions indoors the message.)

Expound is a in-thing a moment ago everyplace people do not see the posts, they just see 'Pook'. So at any time a Pook message appears, they go 'pook baiting' (term coined by Ice-pick). A good example of this is the dupe is Each thread. A very simple statement (that provided clearness in my life) but obsfuscated by embarrassing replies.

My employment is to try to celebrate the Pook. I they say that don't care about whatsoever extremely. Gear that help me I put out on the table, equally by chance some of you guys acknowledge the fantastically problems I did. If the message sounds like Latin to you, then don't pertain to it. We're all taking part in to fix ourselves. When the "matter is on ourselves."

I think that was at any time my Big Circle came was at any time I realized that I was the problem, not the women. That's why I shape against the matter on women/controlling women/tactics' posts (or impressive, at any time they shape at me). The fiddle to your problems is not in the woman but in yourself, but it does incline a type of humility to find out that YOU are the problem (pertain to the Benevolent Guy: HE is right and the WORLD/WOMEN are wrong. He is backwards. He is wrong and the WOMEN are right).

I've been taking part in for 3-4 living. Looking at my beforehand posts, I can see how A leads into B and then to C and so on. For example, the Lacquer That Desperation message (for me) slammed the hold spellbound gather on activities and procedure. So what extremely was current to do? In the wake of that came "Be A Man" which not speaking sexuality from intercourse. This slammed the hold spellbound on me on all the fasten rumor and all. We are in a dupe at once of significant sexuality only to matters of sex at any time, in fact, it goes well beyond intercourse.

Thus, a male and a man are not one but two. Guise can be androgynous. And being an androgynous is not a virtue, and being male is not a vice.

Now, who is it that is saying organization and insect do not stall, in their sexualized forms? Yes, gender theorists! Sexual category theorists hold that masculinity and feminity are socially imposed, in last words, insincere. I didn't find out they were the source but I did find out then that everything was off sexuality farseeing in our world (the Benevolent Guys clatter, not born, but insincere). So I thought, "Be a Man!" I want to free sexuality from lately intercourse' extremely the world beocmes androgynous and very departed.

In "Towards Gap", this harass got dealt with pompous. I ask a group of guys what a guy does that is Chap. The only upshot they perpetual was 'sex with women'. As big of incite I am of sexing women, it shows that sexuality has been chased not on and incarcerated to the bedroom. I stroke we're interior a new Puritan age everyplace sexuality is outlaw, and authorized only through intercourse. The idea of a woman being female or a man being male drives some people bananas (as if they think they acknowledge a right to tell you how you prerequisite act!).

Energy is much pompous all right as a male appear than a nerdy androgynous. Now, taking part in is a good inspection. If sexuality is unthinkable from all arenas except for intercourse (everyplace it cannot be unthinkable), what is the result? The attendance is that society becomes pompous androgenous. And the attendance of that is that sexual intercourse becomes pompous and pompous puffed up and monumentalized.

So your grandmother was right, intercourse is pompous paraded' pompous than ever (if you disallow one part of human sexuality, we just matter on the last part. Sexuality must go "somewhere".) [Also, the Pleasantville resemblance of the Everyday contour not discovering sex until the 60s is wrong. The 50's and 40's believably had pompous sex than today. In the wake of all, everyplace did the Minuscule Thud come from?]

We are all worms crowded in the company of fantasy and argument. The 'Towards Gap message went on detailing the fantasy colleague of Man. The in of the Convulsion message arrive the argument colleague of Man. Independently, I think the 'Towards Gap message is a far better message than in of the Convulsion (equally at once, someone focuses on the argument colleague, never on the fantasy colleague) but someone seems very buckled on the argument colleague.

We are all centaurs and we reach the boar through this world. Apiece elements, of the boar and the 'mind/soul', essential to be said. For instance good does it do to cut off the fantasy module and make no differences in the company of us and apes, wolves, dogs, or Norwegian rats?

Stealthy of the Convulsion II focuses on the argument colleague of sexuality being politeness although Courageous New Formation focuses on the fantasy colleague of sexuality being politeness. Apiece are to be dealt with.

Posts like 'Feminism on Pain and such is my offensive on what these Neo Puritans, these feminists, are work with sexuality.

I gave up trying to appear out 'how to get women' and practice women' equally I shy coming back to significant men. Honest as you cannot define day without significant night, so too you cannot define women without defnining men. Thus, my matter became positioned on SEXUALITY, meaning any sexes and the laws that argue them. I want to viewpoint the secrets of Individual to see how that can better "myself." I acknowledge no pine for to be seen as an Prophet and I spurn people who see me as one.

One feature I still cannot understand is why people talk of 'Pook' as a person. Expound seems to be a dissent departure about who can best psycho-analyze the Pook. Unfortunately, I wasn't invited to such a dissent and at any time I say what I am, people don't stroke it (!).

I tell you only this minute how I think with my posts. But that is not enough; Pook is either 'this' or 'that'.

Come within reach of this thread. I posted taking part in equally they shy on talking of Pook, psychoanalyzing him, etc. etc. That pissed me off as they don't let know Pook and I'm the only one who really does. So the speed seducers came as soon as me. They thought, "Aphorism 'Be a Gentleman is not enough! We need practical advice!" Owing to all this, the Stealthy of the Convulsion was on my visual display unit (which dealt very much with the 'earth-plane'). I grew tired of all this and just considerable to message the article.

And someone gather up. Why? When more readily of trying to understand themselves, they tried to receive Pook'. "Pook is this... Pook is that..." Pook is Pook. For instance pompous needs to be said?

Come within reach of a just starting out example with PowerEgo. He accused the Pook of being a (oh that term) "workaholic" and that I was fast someone to become a "workaholic." I shy talking to him just so he would keep talking, knowing full well the Anyway of Juvenile message was on my visual display unit. When on earth I grew tired of him, I just posted FoY and that was that.

Way of being at this quote I got from assorted board:


Quote: "The unprocessed sponsor of Pook's stream predicament is that he has dehumanised women to the point everyplace he considers them to be with bad manners imperfect creatures who are pitiful of his company. Purely, that didn't equal increase an eyebrow on SS, equally that's to boot the sponsor of every last approach to being a playah. Guise that considers such an attitude to be male needs to buy a dictionary. Honest equally a woman is sharp-witted doesn't make her male - the two are completely autonomous. Uniformly, depth and self-delusional folly are not in the most minuscule bit male. Pook has occupied a trail of quasi-intellectual wanking and turned his back on the very Individual that he so vigourously plagiarises the classics to assistance."

These people denunciation the Pook for being an intellectual! (btw, how can you brighten the classics? Classics aren't copyrighted. And I haven't equal gotten STARTED on the classics and the knowledge of sexuality they hold!)

Yet, some people are straight away cross at me equally I acknowledge been energetic 'bashing' intellectuals!

So which is it, guys? Am I an adroit or not an intellectual?

As you can realize, this is so comedic as would be top-drawer of the pen of Moliere!

A minute ago, some people say, "Pook is mysnomic! He hates women!"

Yet, I acknowledge organization of posts everyplace a youth goes, "Ill-intentioned women! Ill-intentioned women!" and paints women as fearfulness and I show that the youth wrong, and that women may very well be the misfortune.

All these attempts to 'psycho-analyze' the Pook are departure to be wrong. Chop stressful about the Pook and worry about yourselves. If you don't like what the Pook says, don't be present at to him. "Pook is a big fat egotist!" Yet, I acknowledge posts detailing that progress only comes through humility (as one who thinks he knows all the answers will never message whatsoever new equally he knows everything).

I acknowledge been accused and labeled as everything under the sun. For instance is funny is equal at any time I am dependable about who I am (like in the Feminism on Pain thread), people don't stroke it and think I'm lying! No, I am who I've thought I am.

After everything else Pook Directory Flanking


Entertainment Education

Entertainment Education
Admission

When check out first started and for numerous years so programmes focused on administration amusement or information. The quaint nature of programmes ensured its icon and it cut agilely all lines and attracted large end up of viewers who tuned in progressively to watch. The problem arose while it was noticed that such quaint programmes were upping their icon by introducing elements like sex and violence to opening on top eyeballs. The alternative to these programmes were inert educational programmes that lacked attractive elements. The programmes focused on simply reproducing textual thought without rob care as to how such information was free or packaged. Homeland so had just two types of programmes to opt for from and give to was a feeling that the power of check out was not being utilized for great good.

Barabas Attila/Dollar Epitome The populace
AT THIS Reduction IN Interlude IN 1969, SIMPLEMENTE MARIA (Thoroughly MARY)

A Peruvian telenovela started exposure to air and one day tasted mind-blowing success in the Latin American world. The soap-opera was satisfactorily quaint as it traced the life of a conservational woman who moves to the town anywhere she becomes a maid. This degrade maid hence unhurriedly transforms her life as she takes up mending and attends adult literacy hand baggage. In due course she creates her own practice society. This rag to capital story struck a chord with its viewers who became violently put on by the choices of the protagonist. Supplementary people signed up for adult literacy classes and learnt mending. Flat the stability of Artiste mending machines (the print that the lead character used) went up. Maids reported being treated better by their employers and by the time the telenovela the end in 1971, issues ranging from problems faced by wanderer women to the righteousness of inter-ethnic romance was discussed. This amazing domino effect showed that not only were viewers being entertained, they were as well being socially experienced. Accordingly the hypothesis of amusement education was inherent.

MIGUEL SABIDO, A check out producer and director tried to explain this experience that had happened by drawing from miscellaneous communication and behavioral theories. According to him amusement education programmes can be used to distress society and he produced seven soap-operas from 1975 to 1982 in Mexico that proved this point. These shows were commercially successful and promoted prosocial method. His suds opera Ven Conmigo (come with me) like had a character that went to an adult literacy centre to pick up a leaflet. The minute day, hoards of people who had seen the show turned up at the especially centre featured in the programme for their own copy of the leaflet. Such was the confrontation of the show that because of the span that Ven Conmigo aired, enrollments capsule up in adult learning centres.

Jollity education is so a communication strategy and a deal in by which media messages are think and created with an aim to meet and branch of learning audiences so that they can live a happy, safe and value-filled life. These programmes first trap the attention of the throng by quaint them and hence branch of learning them in a elegance which is genuinely unspoken.

Jollity education programmes have available the best elements of amusement and educational programmes to attract viewers with quality shows. These programmes are escapist in nature and try out a new world to the people study. The viewers were attracted to stories of people like them who meet with miscellaneous challenges and get to the bottom of them. Homeland became passionately and intellectually invested in the lives of the protagonists and their acts, values, way of life and choices are safe up as morals to be emulated. In due course viewers learn ways in which problems can be solved and are emotional to learn new things.

Jollity education programmes one day started acting as tools that obsessed change and caused varying of structures and functions in social systems. Jollity education works in two ways to usher about changes in attitudes and method. It can either work at an fastidious level or onset a withstand of change by influencing the society in which we live.

Jollity education has been really used to talk about HIV/AIDS, women's placement, troubles of give to, adult education, family array, etc. Lift for suit the soap-opera, Hum Log (We the Homeland) that ran in India from 1984-1985. The 156 episodes aired, spine about issues ranging from family array, similar status for women to family classification. The soap-opera was very popular with 90% ratings in Hindi speaking cities in North India but as it focused on top on quaint than on refining, people became up but very few changed their method.

THE Triumph OF Jollity Education PROGRAMMES

It falsehood in its ability to coop those that are as a rule contrary to coop and inform those who are as a rule pliant to pro-social messages. Jollity education programmes are self-sustaining as they pay for themselves such as not sacrificing educational interests. They are used on top in leafy countries anywhere the media saturation is not as bad as manufacturing countries anywhere the media puts out unbalanced messages. From check out, amusement education has split out today to shelter a wide range of formats like films, talk shows, cartoon strips, comics, theatre, etc.

About The Club

About The Club
So you want to join the Black Girls Club?

You're it would seem eager we'll give you a operate like "Colorless Toffee"

and manage you cruisin' for brothas in the hood.

Now...I get the life of a cornflake girl can resemblance soggyand less moneyed than a raisin girl's,but you control to remember:when we were put out in the sun to drywe were likewise absent out to die....

~ from "The Black Girls Cudgel", a poem in progress I am Ankhesen Mi'e, scribbler, outrageous, consider extraordinaire, and I'd like to hear you to the Black Girls Cudgel. Referee of it as just just starting out protuberance of the Bar.

"Encircling THE Cudgel"

If you're wondering what would shoulder me to manage on yet just starting out blog, arraignment Cinnamon. She emailed me suggestive of I begin a blog entirely fanatical to "the Black Girls Cudgel". On that situation, I wrote:

"A the same as back, I started a poem called "The Black Girls Cudgel". It was emotional by the feeling that later than you're a Black woman conscious in a America, it's like you're part of a club. You don't remember signing up for it. It doesn't control a on its own charter or goal. One and all excessively perfectly seems to be on the exterior looking in, sometimes whispering, sometimes yelling. They pick remark your threads, tresses, and flesh like vultures. You feel like the rich VIP who can't entrap a break in the media. You feel like the poor girl who can't entrap a break at convoy."

"And on the other hand some people do adoration the settle you shove on, greatest people just loooooooove to distaste you."The Black Girls Cudgel will run on what that situation (and instant posts) started: supervision tabs on Black women in the communal eye and society's repugnant treatment of Black women. Nonetheless we're beyond biological to see a Black woman than a non-white, non-Black woman in, say, popular American media, non-Black women are biological to be treated "better". They are beyond biological to be portrayed as inviting, female, and laudable of confidence.

THIS IS AN "Edifying "BLOG, NOT A WOE-IS-ME BLOG; our essential passage will be learning beyond about ourselves about and abroad from a sociological place. From about we can open petitions, donate boycotts, tinge open letters to our artists, and send on self-ruled media which portrays us meaningfully beyond healthily.

"Observations Convention"

One of the reasons this club exists is the uninterrupted raid on Black women, so staidness is leaving to be very tensely on this blog. The point of commenting is to Prolifically AND Graciously Crack the announce at molest, Surrender pristine information, and send on the conversations on this blog.

"Increase YOURSELVES"

Use this edge to tell us a bit about yourself, your acquaint with position on Black women in media, and what you would like to see beyond of from Black female artists.

Gender Imbalance Set To Ease

Gender Imbalance Set To Ease
The skewed birth sex ratio, with more than 117 males for every 100 females, is targeted to drop to below 115 by 2015, a senior population official said.The ratio stands at exactly 117.78 males born for every 100 females, official statistics showed. It peaked in 2008 at 120.56."Despite a decline over the last three years, the situation, compared to the 'normal ratio' of 103 to 107, is still severe and government-led intervention is necessary," Zhang Jian, publicity chief of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said."It will be a tough task to meet the 2015 goal and an intense effort is needed," he told China Daily on Thursday.Last August, the commission and other government agencies, including the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Public Security, launched a national campaign to curb non-medical sex determination and sex-selective abortions."We'll extend that campaign into this year," Zhang said.Zhai Zhenwu, head of the social and population college at the Beijing-based Renmin University, said there was a deeply rooted tradition of preferring male births.As fertility rates declined due to the family planning policy, the figure for male births surged ahead, he said.The increasing availability of ultrasound technology, enabling fetus gender testing on the mainland in the 1980s, made sex selection easier and led directly to an increasingly imbalanced gender ratio, he explained.And "it's easy to access such tools, particularly at the grassroots," he added."Campaigns will help stop sex-selective abortions and address the 'marriage squeeze,' which is expected," he said.It is estimated that by 2020, China will have 24 million more men than women of marriageable age on the mainland."It is not only a population problem, but also a grave social problem as many men will fail to find a wife," Zhang said."Such a man may face an old age without the economic and emotional support of a wife and children," Zhai noted.The provinces of Jiangxi, Hainan, and Guangdong now suffer the most skewed birth sex ratio, he said.Authorities in Jiangxi province last year uncovered 2,064 cases of non-medical gender testing and sex-selective abortions.They revoked the licenses of 312 medical workers and detained and sentenced 83 people."In places like Guangdong, despite its rising economic clout, people there still prefer boys to girls," Zhai said."That boy-preference norm will be reversed as people become more urbanized," he said.In cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, the birth sex ratio is normal for residents who have a hukou, or residence permit, official statistics showed."However, it is imbalanced among migrant workers," Zhai pointed out.He urged the government to target efforts particularly at rural areas and the migrant population in cities.In addition to campaigns to end sex selection, the commission is also working closely on raising public awareness and implementing policies favoring families with a girl, particularly in the countryside, Zhang said.

Women Rights Must Be Protected Ancwl

Women Rights Must Be Protected Ancwl
Source: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Womens-rights-must-be-protected-ANCWL-20131007

The ANC Women's Association is natural ability for a party mark your ballot manifesto with higher women-orientated pillars, its lead AngieMotshekga assumed on Monday.

"Our vital demand payment from is that South Africa prerequisite be safe for women everyplace and at all times," she told pressure in Johannesburg.

"Cultural practices and society that trade the betrayal of women's position prerequisite be abolished and these include, plus others, ukuthwala, ukungena, and virginity testing."

Ukuthwala is the practice of abducting girls and forcing them into marriage, frequently with the sanction of their parents. Ukungena is wherever a widowed woman becomes her brother-in-law's other half.

Motshekga was epigrammatic the media about the ANCWL national mark your ballot workshop, which was occupied at St George's Hunting lodge conclusion Pretoria at the weekend.

She assumed women's position had to be held in the context of human position, and the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender community essential to be supported and sheltered.

Economic Concentration


The ANCWL required the ANC's manifesto to hand over to higher monetary assimilation of women and comprehensive dispense of resources to help clash gender-based violence.

It more to the point required a revised mixed black monetary empowerment (BBBEE) pad, more to the point with a confidence to gender likeness, Motshekga assumed.

She familiar the improvement in permission to legitimacy depressed the Sexual Offences Bench, but usual ending improvements in continuance courts.

"The ANCWL has full confidence in the ANC to crop against these aspirations of the women of South Africa," Motshekga assumed.

"The uncivilized successes made in promoting gender quality and women's empowerment are a evident memorial to the confidence of the ANC to the rival for a non-sexist and great society."

She assumed the ANCWL's mark your ballot direct programme would include listening to, engaging and mobilising women from all sectors in society to single to articulate in later than year's mark your ballot.

Is Divorce Contagious

Is Divorce Contagious
We curb starvation remarked that, seeing that consumers downgrade their friends, the dilemmas are starvation business. We are not certified what makes that happen; in harm of that, we do see that connections with alternate people likely ideas and experiences.

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The American Government Discriminates Against Men

The American Government Discriminates Against Men
These facts came from a pamphlet I received from the National Coalition of Free Men

References are listed at the bottom of the page.

* People who abuse boys are much less likely to be put in prison than those who abuse girls. 1

* A juvenile male who commits a sex offense is 46 times as likely to be arrested and charged with a crime as a juvenile female who commits the same offense. 2

* Men receive more severe sentences than women for committing the same crimes. 3

* How a women gets pregnant is irrelevant to the man's child-support obligation.

A married man is legally responsible for ANY child born to his wife, even if he is NOT the biological father. 4

* Some women who have had sex with underage boys and then gotten pregnant have been awarded child support but were not charged with statutory rape.

These women have been rewarded for having sex with minors.

Meanwhile, their victims are forced to pay the women who raped them. 5

* In child custody disputes, courts grant child custody to women four times as often as men.

Women are more likely to abuse, neglect, or murder their children. 6

* A woman may legally murder her husband if she claims that she was battered.

A proof of being battered is having placed a restraining order against him.

The requirement for a restraining order is fear of a possible assault. 7

* For every 100 men that kill their wives, 75 women kill their husbands.

Men are arrested for this crime 6 times as frequently as women. 8

* The average prison sentence for a husband killing his wife is 17.5 years.

The average prison sentence for a wife killing her husband is 6.2 years. 9

* 58% of child abusers are women.

97% of those put in prison for crimes against children are men. 10

* The majority of child abusers reported to social service agencies are women.

73% of the abusers that these agencies choose to report to police are men. 11

* A man convicted of inappropriately fondling a child is 25 times more likely to be put in prison than a woman convicted of killing or maiming a child. 12

* A women may legally murder her children if she is depressed. 13

* Men are 20% more likely to die from prostrate cancer than women from breast cancer.

Federal funding for breast cancer research is 4 times the funding for prostate cancer research. 14

* Men pay twice what women pay into social security.

Women receive 50% more than men in payments. 15

* Men must register for selective services.

They are expected to fight and die for this country.

Women are not required to register for selective services.

* Lawrence A. GreenField, Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims, NCJ-153238, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1996, p. 1.

* J.A. Ray and D.J. English, "Comparison of female and male children with sexual behavior problems", Journal of Youth and Adolescence 24(4): 439-451, 1995.

* U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Sentencing Outcomes in 28 Felony Courts: 1985", July 1987

* Tradition dating to Roman times and codified in English Common Law, adopted by most states in the U.S.

* As in State ex rel. Hermesmann v. Seyer, 252 Kan. 646, 847 P.2d 1273, 1279 (1993), when a judge ordered a teenage boy, who was molested by a babysitter, to pay child support to her.

Michigan Court of Appeals ruling reported by Dawson Bell, "Child support just, court says: Man ordered to pay for boy he fathered at 14 with older woman", Detroit Free Press, February 21, 2004.

* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, Child Maltreatment 1997: Reports from the States to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999.

* The "learned helplessness" or "battered woman" legal defense.

* M.I. Wilson and M. Daley, Criminology, 30, 189-215, 1992.

* U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Domestic Violence: Violence Between Intimates, Washington D.C. 1994.

* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Child Maltreatment 2003, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.

Lawrence A. Greenfield, Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims, NCJ-153238, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1996, p.5.

* David Finkelhor and Richard Ormrod, Child Abuse Reported to the Police, Washington D.C.: U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2001, p.4.

* Lawrence A. Greenfield, Child Victimizers, p.1.

* Postpartum depression, another woman-only legal defense for murder. For example, Tom Gorman, "Woman Who Killed Child Remains Free", Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1989.

* Associated Press, "Rate of Leading Types of Cancer", April 20, 1999, AOL News.

National Institutes of Health 1998 data reported by Warren Farrell, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say. New York City: Penguin Putnam, 1999.

National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 54, No. 13, p. 26, Table 8.

* U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics, "Earnings and Employment Data for Wage and Salary Workers Covered Under Social Security by State and County, 1985", Publication No. 13-11784, 1988.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, Social Security Bulletin Annual Statistical Supplement, 1991.