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The Law is a Vehicle for Poverty Alleviation!
The UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor recently completed its work noting that Poverty Alleviation will be incomplete without the protection of the legal rights of the Poor.
The Commission was the first global initiative to focus on the link between Poverty and the Law.
Legal Empowerment is not about aid, but about helping poor... (read more)
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7 Point Agenda
Support the Seven Point Agenda for a better Nigeria.
I live to support this agenda, not because it is new nor because it is comprehensive neither it is because it is the best, but because I think, at least Nigeria can be better for it. (read more)
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From crisis to panic
By ASIM ERDİLEK:
It is no longer just a global financial crisis waiting to be ended by government rescue plans of this sort and that sort, here and there. What we now have is a full-blown global financial panic, seemingly impervious to plans of any sort, which last week caused a brutal financial crash of historical proportions on Wall... (read more)
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How the Beaver Got his Tail
How the Beaver Got his Tail (English version)
(Amik)
One day a beaver and a muskrat were playing happily in the water. What fun they
had --- paddling around and diving in and out of the clear, cool water.
The beaver paused and listened for a moment. He said to himself, -- “My, what
A nice sound the muskrat’s tail makes, when it... (read more)
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Animals Race to Extinction
A new study shows that half of the mammal species on Earth are declining. The 2008 IUCN Red List (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) reveals an alarming rate of biodiversity loss and identified more than 16,928 species threatened with extinction.
The compiled data also shows that one in four mammals, one in three... (read more)
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Dillusioned
Fear, Love, Hate, Disappointment.
I see that woman, I see her cheat my father
While he’s suffering in bed, she finds her lover
I am not blind; I can see it well and clear
She can’t fool me now, not with those tears.
She has the nerve to write to me still
To tell me she has lived all her life in scrutiny?
How dare she say so, what... (read more)
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COUNTDOWN! 100 TO GO!
CLICK! MENTORSPEAK!
Learn About Mentors!
2009 ABC4All Challenge Landmark: 777 ABC4All Mentors!
http://abc4all.net/777.htm
TOTAL GOAL BY 01/26/09: 777
CURRENT NUMBER OF MENTORS: 677
LEFT TO GO: 100 (read more)
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MSM Health Issues in Nigeria (By Oliver Anene)
In Nigeria, male – male sex is still heavily stigmatized, even in other countries where consensual sex between adult men in non-public places have been decriminalized (as in Australia, Hong Kong SAR, New Zealand, etc). Many countries, particularly former British colonies (including Nigeria), still have laws criminalizing same sex sexual... (read more)
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violence
violence against chiidren can never be justified, a chiid has a right to parental love, a right to play, right to education and a right from torture. a child never aplaid to be born in to these world. lets protect their right (read more)
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Bush’s Iraq chickens come home to roost
Bush’s Iraq chickens come home to roost
By Naomi Wolf
Background The First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practised in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals", and the management of a... (read more)
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Animal Rights and Care
Animals should have the right to live their life like we do and to enjoy it without being killed for meat or losing their mum for meat or other purposes. I think i speak out for all the animals in the world, animals were never supposed to be a food source but now they are a way of life for us. It should stop!!! (read more)
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A SILENT LOVE
From the very Begining, the girl's family objected strongly on her dating this guy. Saying that it has got to do with family background & that the girl will have to suffer for the rest of her life if she were to be with him.
Due to family's pressure, the couple quarrel very often. Though the girl love the guy deeply, but she always ask him:... (read more)
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Ugh?
I was mulling over issues I consider important for most budding and aspiring young economists, at least for myself.
When is can you call yourself an "economist"? Is it right after you get your esteemed and long-awaited bachelor's diploma in economics? Or after you finish your MA or PhD? Maybe when you land as a faculty member in one of the... (read more)
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