South Africa: Liberty Medical Scheme – Medical Schemes a valuable resource
Continuously striving to improve quality of care and offering benefits that cater for the needs of members at each life stage, as well as working closely with doctors and hospitals to achieve the best possible results, South Africa’s medical schemes remain a valuable resource, says Andrew Edwards, Executive Principal Officer of Liberty Medical Scheme (LMS). [...]
Updates on Women, Children, and Human Rights Around the Globe
Children of the Earth summit — 1992 and 2012 As young people weigh in with their impressions of the ongoing Rio+20 conference, this documentary series, Zero Ten Twenty, looks back on the lives of children born in 1992–the year of the groundbreaking Earth Summit. Working to include women in development recipe The United Nations is hosting [...]
Safe Food Campaign March on
Spurred by negative impacts of chemical pesticides and other toxic inputs in our food and farming and advocating a shift towards ecological farming, a safe food mela was organized at a city park in Chennai on June 24. It is part a nation wide mobilization campaign to create awareness among the citizens about the ill [...]
Two Iranians at imminent danger of execution for consuming alcohol
Two people who were sentenced to death for consuming alcohol are at imminent danger of execution. According to the state run Iranian news agency ISNA Iranian Supreme court has approved the death sentence of two people who are sentenced to death for consuming alcohol for the third time. Quoting the head of the Iranian judiciary [...]
Educational system of Nepal ‘questionable’
According to the Office of the Controller of Examinations, this this year’s School Leaving Certificate examination was passed by 47.16 percent depleting from 55.50 per cent last year.This year Around 45 % students passed the SLC in regular segment. A total of 912 passed in distinction and 3,197 in first division. I was really surprised [...]
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