At age one, Fatima was subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in her village in Afar Region of Ethiopia which has one of the world’s highest prevalence rates. Photo: UNICEF/Kate Holt 30 October 2014 – The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) must come to a quick end and the global media can play a critical role in making that happen,   Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon affirmed today during his visit to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. Speaking at the launch of the Global Media Campaign against female genital mutilation organized by the Guardian Media Group, the Secretary-General   underscored   the importance of placing a greater media focus on the issue, which condemns millions of girls and women to the brutal practice each year. “Change can happen through sustained media attention on the damaging public health consequences of FGM, as well as on the abuse of the rights of hundreds of thousands of women and girls around the world,” Mr. Ban c...

Rethinking hunger  Despite gains in expanding the food supply, at least 805 million people still go hungry every day, of whom some 791 million live in developing countries, writes Jomo Kwame Sundaram. Jomo Kwame Sundaram is Assistant Director-General and Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organisation .     The world has a nutrition problem. Though great strides have been made toward the   Millennium Development Goal   of halving the proportion of undernourished people in developing countries, the problem remains persistent, pervasive, and complex. After all, the issue goes beyond merely providing more food; effective efforts to reduce undernourishment must ensure that people have access to enough of the right types of food – those that give them the nutrients they need to live healthy, productive lives. Since 1945, food production has tripled, and food availability has risen by 40%, on average, per per...

  Subject: *DHR* Lake Rweru: two more floating corpses recovered this week.   Two more floating corpses recovered on Lake Rweru in southern Rwanda Posted by:  APA  Posted date :  October 31, 2014  at  1:15 pm UTC   16 views  In:  Africa Bodies of two unidentified men have been recovered this week by security agencies floating in Lake Rweru located in southern Rwanda, bringing the total to seven corpses that have been so far recovered on the lake. Local media in Kigali reports Friday that the decomposing bodies floating on the water surface have been retrieved and those counted since these series of unidentified bodies came to the spotlights of international attention, pushing the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to officially announce its willingness to take up the case. In a related development, the Bur...

  Subject: *DHR* Rwanda - Burkina Faso a warning to other African leaders.   Burkina Faso a warning to other African leaders on October 31, 2014   /   in  Politics  5:20 pm   /    Comments Nairobi – Violent clashes in Burkina Faso that led to the overthrow of the president are a stark warning to other African leaders pushing constitutional change to hang on to power, analysts say. Chaos in Burkina Faso erupted this week as lawmakers prepared to vote to allow 63-year-old Blaise Compaore — who took power in a 1987 coup — to contest elections in November 2015. People celebrate in the capital Ouagadougou after Burkina Faso's embattled President Blaise Compaore announced earlier on October 31, 2014, he was stepping down to make way for elections following a violent uprising against his 27-year rule. Blaise took power in...

  After Blaise Compaore , the next is the dictator and war criminal Paul Kagame. Kagame hopes to  get a peaceful and luxury retirement while  thousands of  bodies of people he killed  are buried in Uganda,  RD Congo, Rwanda and other countries.  He hopes to be exonerated for his crimes because  he uses foreign aid to pay bribes to hungry  white people who write praising  books and media articles about him.  Kagame does not know  that everything that was started has an end. This is the same for Yoweri Museveni. Let's wait and see ! ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Jean Bosco Sibomana sibomanaxyz999@gmail.com [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr> To: Sibomana Jean Bosco <Sibomanaxyz999@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, 31 October 2014, 16:39 Subject: *DHR* Kagame - Burkina Faso - Revolution or Protest? ...