ILO projects another rise in world jobless in 2013

Five years after the onset of the financial crisis, global unemployment is on the rise again. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

World’s rich could end global poverty: Oxfam

“Political equality...[is] meaningless in the face of economic inequality.”(Photo Credit: Oxfam)

Ex-Liberia President Charles Taylor guilty in 'watershed' war-crimes case

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A young Revolutionary United Front (RUF) fighter poses near Freetown, Sierra Leone, on May 25, 1997. 

Aid agencies to feed Gambians amid worsening food crisis

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Amid worsening food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, international aid agencies respond to calls by the Gambia Government to help feed her people.

The country suffered a serious drop in crop production in 2011 blamed on late and erratic rains. As a result, local citizens are already running out of food supply.

United Nations and international aid agencies warn in February 2012 that drought and food shortage in the Sahel is threatening lives, with an estimated over 20 million people to go hungry.

World AIDS Day: African Union Commission launches Workplace Policy on HIV / AIDS

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 14, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As part of the activities marking the 2011 World Aids Day to be observed on 1st December, the Medical Services Directorate of the African Union Commission (AUC) will on 2nd December 2011, launch the AU Commission HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy. The launching ceremony will take place at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the presence of all AU staff.

 

The policy which is comprised in a booklet, has been developed in light of the commitments expressed by the Heads of State and Government in the 2001 Abuja Declaration on HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases (ORID), in which they declared AIDS “a State of Emergency in the Continent”, and other commitments made at the United Nations UNGASS, 2001, and through the Declaration on Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Africa (Ouagadougou, 2004), High-level Meeting 2006, by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).

Countdown Begins: 7 Days to 7 Billion People

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UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK, October 24, 2011/PRNewswire via African Press Organization (APO)/ — More than 50 Musicians, 13 countries, 1 world anthem: United Nations Population Fund debuts music video on Facebook

Movement calls for individual actions to be featured on http://www.7billionactions.org