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The world is full of good news. The following are just a few ...
Supported by the US Agency for International Development, Afghanistan’s Women’s Land
Rights Task Force holds its inaugural meeting toward a goal of achieving legal reforms that
better assure economic rights and social equity for Afghan women.
Ireland’s Minister of State for Trade and Development, Jan O’Sullivan, announces a
donation of €250,000 for emergency relief aid of food, water, and shelter to support
thousands of Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia.
The US National Institutes of Health states that new research on chimpanzees is suspended,
effective immediately, as well as more stringent criteria being implemented for existing experiments,
with animal welfare advocates hopeful that this will also pave the way to future legislation
protecting the primates from use in entertainment or as pets.
The remarkable young Wakana Ueda of Japan, determined to enter the Honolulu Marathon
in Hawaii, USA, joins 19,000 other runners and overcomes her visual impairment by using
auditory signals as she successfully completes the 26.2-mile race at just 11 years of age.
Prensa Latina reports that more than 92,000 Angolans have graduated in the past 18 months
from the Cuban literacy program known as "I Can," with 78% of those who can now read and
write being women.
After seeing 28-year-old Selina Hodge’s plea for a kidney transplant in the online
classified section of the website Craigslist, Ms. Stephanie Grant, age 23, decides to donate
her kidney to Ms. Hodge, with both women now recovering from successful surgeries in Florida,
USA.
United Arab Emirates President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan meets with
visiting German President Christian Wulff, where the two affirm their countries' longstanding
friendship as they discuss ways to further enhance cooperation in many different fields.
Affirming a deep commitment to human dignity and freedom, US search engine giant Google
donates US$11.5 million in partnership with human rights organization International Justice
Mission toward a goal of ending modern-day slavery for people around the world.�