UNICEF’s 2012 State of the World’s Children report calls for new approach to growing urban challenges TORONTO, Feb. 28, 2012 /CNW/ – The failure of cities to keep up with rapidly growing populations has led to larger inequalities among millions of children worldwide UNICEF revealed today in its 2012 State of the World’s Children report [...]

February 20, 2012 (Toronto, Canada) – Stephen Frost, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games will be the keynote speaker at The Canadian Supplier Diversity Conference 2012, Diversity Our Economic Strength, presented by RBC, on Friday, March 23, 2012 at the Allstream Centre, Toronto, Canada. Mr. Frost [...]

LONDON, Feb. 21, 2012 /CNW/ – The CEO of Dahabshiil, Somalia’s largest private sector employer, has called for the international community to help unlock the potential of social entrepreneurship in the region, so it can stage its own recovery from issues that have plagued it for more than 20 years. Speaking ahead of the London [...]

VAUGHAN, ON, Feb. 20, 2012 /CNW/ – The Chairman of Humanity First Canada, Dr. Aslam Daud has returned from Haiti today after a very successful visit and review of the Post-Earthquake projects. Since the massive relief work done by Humanity First after 2010 earthquake (http://www.humanityfirst.ca/haitisouvenir/), the organization has continued its presence in Haiti by providing [...]

OTTAWA and VANCOUVER, Feb. 17, 2012 /CNW/ – Canada’s ranking in international child health indexes would dramatically improve if measurements were standardized, according to a new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, McGill University, the University of Calgary, and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). It was funded by [...]

Death penalty by injection in United States could be in jeopardy as European companies restriction the foreign trade of certain barbiturates. In Europe only one nation allows capital punishment, Belarus. The other nations have a moratorium on the death penalty. While these nations are against the killing of inmates some have had a hand when [...]

TOKYO, Jan. 26, 2012 /CNW/ – In his 30th annual peace proposal, released on January 26, Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist association, calls for a nuclear abolition summit to be held in 2015 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to ensure that the growing momentum toward abolition of nuclear weapons becomes irreversible. [...]