Gender equality promoted on UN’s World Radio Day
Radio broadcasting is being promoted as a key way to furthergender equality and women’s empowerment around the world.
Radio broadcasting is being promoted as a key way to furthergender equality and women’s empowerment around the world.
Countries around the world are being urged to change the negative stereotypes of women which persist in male-dominated cultures.
The need to protect civilians in time of conflict is often going “unheeded” according to a senior United Nations official.
As violence continues in Syria, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the UN is turning its attention on how best to protect civilians.
The future for many young people looking for jobs in Asia could be in rural areas rather than in cities, according to some economists working on employment issues.
The security situation in the Central African Republic continues to deteriorate and threatens to degenerate into lawlessness.
The crisis started in December 2012 when rebels attacked government forces but has become an inter-religious conflict.
Children who have been evacuated from the old city of Homs in Syria have been described by the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF as “terrified, frail and emaciated.”
The UN and Arab league envoy for Syria is urging the warring parties in Syria to end what he has called the “nightmare” that Syrian people are experiencing.
More than 100,000 people have been killed during the three-year conflict and millions have fled their homes.
Migrant workers from Cambodia are falling into the hands of human traffickers and smugglers in their quest for decent jobs abroad according to the International Organisation for Migration(IOM).
There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to promote equality between men and women involved in the radio broadcasting industry.
One of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that world leaders set to be achieved by 2015 is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.