22 hours ago by odiuko

Female Genital Mutilation seems to have disappeared from the social consciousness and political and women’s health radar in most countries of the sub-Saharan countries. None the less, it is still alive and well; and each year millions of women and girls continue to undergo this horrific rites of pas ...

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2 days ago by Emily Heroy

Female genital mutilation or torture: whichever way you say it, it sounds like something horrible. In the late 1970s, the name female genital mutilation (FGM) was adapted by organizations such as the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), and Inter-African Committee on Traditional Pra ...

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3 days ago by Emily Heroy

Circumcision is a widely-discussed topic in the United States and outside of the United States (with a heavy emphasis on many countries in Asia and Africa, see Africa’s female circumcision prevalence map to the left). It also happens inside the U.S. Some people think it’s necessary because of health ...

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4 days ago by Web Team

My name is Peninah Esianoi Pashile. I was a sponsored child at Imaroro Child Develoment Center in Kenya. I would like to share my story with you and hope that it will be an inspiration and encouragement to all who are dedicating their time and resources to releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ n ...

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6 days ago by missivesfrommarx

What motivates people to act morally? I propose 3 reasons: some people buy into a legitimation for particular moral or ethical codes some people, as a result of their process of socialization, abide by certain moral or ethical codes as a matter of habit some people have sympathy for other human bein ...

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8 days ago by Irene Heisz

Frher war Rdiger Nehberg ein Abenteurer um der Abenteuer willen. Seit mehr als 25 Jahren aber unternimmt er seine spektakulärsten Aktionen, um die Aufmerksamkeit auf andere zu lenken. TT: Was ist bedrohlicher: eine Expedition durch den Amazonas-Regenwald oder eine Fahrt ber eine deutsche Autobahn? R ...

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13 days ago by Matthew

Some things just fail on their own The best counter to moral relativism is still the quip “is that so?” delivered with the appropriate raised eye-brow. Any sufficient response to that query must consist of a positive statement of an absolute value which proves moral relativism to be a fraud at best. ...

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18 days ago by Kale

In the dry areas of the Kenya, people find a place to sleep within refugee camps set up for people who had to flee their home. Not all of the people in these camps are "bums". Some people are ending up in these camps through natural disasters, which seem to be increasing in number. Some people end u ...

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18 days ago by wolfshowl

Today while perusing links posted on twitter, I came across this story on Newsweek. Now, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is no new topic to me. We actually covered it in one of my sociology-type classes in high school. This article though made it re-hit home akin to the way it did the first time I l ...

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19 days ago by odiuko

My name is Elizabeth and I am very concerned about the state of women and children’s health in the world but in particular conditions in Africa. Women and children in Africa are the forgotten faces of the world population; ever in the background, never daring to speak or be seen but yet shouldering ...

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