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PRESS RELEASE Nº24/24th AU SUMMIT
24TH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY OF AFRICAN UNION HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT BEGINS IN ADDIS ABABA
Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 30 January 2015-The 24th summit of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, which started in Addis Ababa today has heard from distinguished speakers of the progress and some of the challenges that Africa faces, as well as proposals for the way forward. The opening ceremony of the summit also saw the election of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as the Union’s Chairperson for the year 2015.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 24th summit of the African Union today, Dr DlaminiZuma said Africa has no choice but to move forward and upwards. The continent, she said, has been climbing, “a step at a time, up the steep cliff towards peace, prosperity and the restoration of the dignity of its people”.
She projected that the present generation is the one that will eradicate poverty, disease and hunger. “We are the generation that shall manage diversity and silence the guns”, she added.
The Chairperson recalled that, at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Organisation of African Unity in 2013, the continent’s resolve to be in charge of its destiny, informed its decision to develop Agenda 2063 “through a people-driven process for the realization of our vision for an integrated, people-centred, prosperous Africa at peace with itself”. The Agenda 2063 framework document will be presented for adoption by the Heads of State and Government today.
Agenda 2063 outlines the aspirations and the concrete programmes to steer the continent for the next fifty years: to diversify African economies and industrialise; to have a skills and entrepreneurial revolution, unleashing the creativity and energy of young people, and to effect an agricultural and agro-processing transformation, so that Africa can feed itself and contribute to feeding the world.
The summit of African Union Heads of State and Government is being held under the theme “Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development”. Various speakers at the summit’s opening ceremony expressed their commitment to mainstreaming women in all socio- economic activities, with Malawian President Mr PeterMutharika dedicating his entire statement to the topic. He outlined major successes achieved by his country, but also mentioned the challenges they face. However he gave his commitment that his government will continue to strive to achieve gender equality. United Nations Secretary General Mr Ban Ki Moon also expressed strong support for the AU’s annual theme: “Women must be at the center and front of all our lives”, he said.
Issues of peace and security dominated many of the presentations by the African and visiting Heads of State and Government. President of the State of Palestine and Chairperson of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive Committee Mr Mahmoud Abbas spoke of his government’s desire and the efforts being exerted to achieve a Palestinian state living side by side with the state of Israel.
Many of the leaders condemned terrorism in very strong terms, with then outgoing Chairperson of the African Union Mr Mohammed Ould Abdelaziz saying, “Terrorism remains a global scourge and fighting it requires cooperation at the international level.”AUC Chairperson Dr Dlamini Zuma also cautioned that Africa should be aware of the new global threats such as terrorism, insecurity and climate change. “Terrorism, in particular the brutality of Boko Haram against our people, the senseless killings, the destruction of property, the enslavement and sale of our people, our girls kidnapped and married, and the terrorization of villages, are a threat to our collective safety, security and development”.
The Ebola virus disease that affected mostly three countries in West Africa attracted a lot of attention at the meeting of the Heads of State and Government. AU Commission Chairperson Dr NkosazanaDlaminiZuma praised the work of the 835 African health workers who were deployed to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone under the banner of the African Union Support to the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA). She also extended her gratitude to the ASEOWA head of mission Dr Julius Oketta and the African private sector that is raising funds to keep the health workers on the ground until the affected countries are declared Ebola free. There are signs that, due to the work of the ASEOWA health workers among others, the Ebola crisis is now abating, with the incidents of infection and death from the disease vastly decreasing.
Tunisian President Mr Beji Caid Essebsi informed the summit that “the democratic process chosen by Tunisians is irreversible”. Tunisians, he said, had proven that the people of Africa can build the continent with their own hands. He also said Tunisia is proud of being African.
New Zambian President Mr Edgar Lungu thanked the African Union for supporting his country through the death of Mr Michael Satain October 2014 and the subsequent elections that ushered him into power. He thanked the Southern African Development Community, the AU and other organisations that sent in election monitors. Zambia, he said, has demonstrated that it is possible to have peaceful elections, and pledged that Zambia will actively participate in the affairs of the Union.
The late Zambian President meanwhile was honoured by his colleagues and other delegates by a one minute silence in his memory.
Outgoing Namibian President Mr HifikinyePohambawas given a chance to bid farewell to his colleagues at today’s opening ceremony of the Assembly.
New AU Chairperson Mr Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe meanwhile accepted his position by saying "By electing me to preside over this august body, with full knowledge of the onerous responsibility that lies ahead, I humbly accept your collective decision". He urged Africa to take charge of its destiny and pledged to work for Africa’s development particularly through infrastructure development. He then proceeded to launch the theme of the year, i.e. “Women’s Empowerment and Development towards Agenda 2063”.
The meeting of African Heads of State and Government will conclude on Saturday 31st January with the adoption of decisions and declarations to guide the work of the African Union this year.
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This horse was fully aware of my presents while photographing him, even though I was standing some distance away using a telephoto lens.
This is my sisters horse, and was captured in beautiful Southern Idaho.
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i made this video for a contest at my school for health week... i won a prize for the deepest video... i worked really hard on this video to make it reach out to all people, but mostly to encourage people who suffer from this to get help...
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Today, January 11th, is "Human Trafficking Awareness Day." Events held around the Nation are planned.
Seattle, with its unique needs and issues, has a website of interest to all:
In the month of June I will be selling these Autism Awareness Earrings for Angels Inc. Check it out at :
$12.00 pair ($10 going to the charity)
Visitors stand in a queue to visit the Red Ribbon express train, background, as a person dressed as a giant condom walks past them, at the railway station in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, April 15, 2010. The Red Ribbon express train is traveling across the country as part of a campaign to spread awareness on HIV and AIDS. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Dane and I have struggled with infertility over the past 13 years of our marriage. We have done many procedures to help us have a child, without any luck.
With that said, we are participating in a 5k that is being put on by fertility clinics in our area to raise awareness and to also bless 4 families with the opportunity to do In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Each team member gains us a raffle ticket to win a free IVF treatment. Regardless if we win or not, 4 families that are experiencing the same struggle that we have will be blessed with the opportunity to grow their families.
We have a team of friends and family that are supporting us in this. If you would like to support us, you can join our team for $40 dollars. If you would like to support us but aren't able to do the walk/run/crawl 5k you can sign up with the "sleep in" option. Our team name is "Bailey for Baby". The event takes place April 21st at Greenlake in Seattle.
Your prayers and support are greatly appreciated.
God Bless
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Week 15: Fragile
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In the wake of recent hit and runs, both pedestrian and vehicle, cyclist and vehicle collisions, Gov. Brown signs Gatto's bill to create hit and run driver alerts.
October 3, 2015
Ryan McNamara does not own a car and commutes throughout the Los Angeles area via bicycle. McNamara has had many friends who have been victims of hit and run accidents, some resulted in death. McNamara is an advocate for cyclists and pedestrian awareness.
We have planned multiple screening camps for diabetes and diabetic complications in several locations in Odisha, India.
Photo Title: Glaucoma awareness campaign
Submitted by: SadiaSethi
Category: Amateur
Country: Pakistan
Organisation: Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar Pakistan
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Photo Caption: Students of Khyber Medical College Peshawar Pakistan busy in making posters to raise awareness about Glaucoma
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Photo uploaded from the #HopeInSight Photo Competition on photocomp.iapb.org held for World Sight Day 2020.
A morality play based upon a famous painting by Vermeer. It all has to do with awareness in light. All things brought up into the consciousness out of the shadows of the unconscious mind.
As I was doing this collage I became aware of the subtle play of serpentia in the red covering on the table, her dress, and the window frame.
In Vermeer's world time is frozen so that people too become part of a still life bathed in ethereal light.
This is a magnificent abstraction in black, gold, and red with the s-curves of white in blue that wind through the center edge-to-edge. My serpent continues the thematic structure, which I believe was something already implied. In a sense, I drew up the unconscious content and made it more visible.
Of course, Vermeer knew what he was about by leaving the serpent as an unconscious motif in the table cloth. My work is part of a process of critical understanding.
ACF is committed to preventing human trafficking and ensuring that victims of all forms of human trafficking have access to the services they need.
Before you use these photos, check out this training on human trafficking public outreach campaigns from the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
I took this shot at a recent Seahawks game where the halftime show was the Sea Gals and Washington high school cheerleaders did a dance that was to increase awareness.
It was one of the coolest shows I have seen and I think that the NFL does a great job of incorporating breast cancer awareness into its games and promotions.
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Approximately 30 pickets supporting draft resister Joseph Tieger demonstrate outside the Selective Service headquarters at 916 G Street NW May 29, 1967.
The photograph, taken from inside the draft board, shows a federal guard along with the pickets with a bus parked ready to take drafted men to the induction center.
Tieger announced that he would refuse induction into the armed forces and was supported by members and supporters of Veterans for Peace, the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and Women’s Strike for Peace.
Tieger was prepared to refuse to serve in the armed forces saying he is “opposed in any kind of participation in the Vietnam war –any war.”
He added, “Under no conditions will I be drafted. If I have to, I will go to jail. Naturally, I don’t want to.”
In the fall of 1966 he had refused to answer the “security questionnaire” of the armed forces that asked questions relating to drug use and homosexuality, among others. It was the first public refusal of induction during the Vietnam War in the Washington, D.C. area.
He was classified as a “delinquent” and put to the top of the draft list and recalled in May 1967.
Tieger was a former worker for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and was then working for the Poverty Rights Action Center.
Tieger boarded a bus, along with other draftees, to the induction center at Ft. Holobird in Baltimore, Maryland where other pickets were there to support him.
He carried a telegram addressed to President Lyndon Johnson with him that he handed to an officer that read:
“You will ask me, today, to step forward to be inducted into the Army, and I will refuse.”
“Nearly four years ago I asked to be classified as a conscientious objector to the war. I have made it plain ever since that I would never serve as an agent of war. You call on me to betray what I believe in…”
“For most of these past four years I have worked in the civil rights movement. You and [Republic of Vietnam Premier] Marshal [Nguyen Cao] Ky and [General Francisco] Franco in Spain and [Sen. James] Eastland in Mississippi and your white friends in South Africa have one idea of freedom and justice; I have another. I am willing to risk dying for what I believe in; I am not willing to kill for what you believe in.”
After giving the statement to the Army, he was pulled out of line and waited for several hours before being told he was “administratively unsuitable” and that his induction was temporarily “suspended.”
Shortly afterward, Tieger took a job with the Spring Mobilization Committee to do field work in North Carolina and enrolling in Duke Law School after his arrival in the state.
Tieger and another activist, George Vlasits, were given notices to report to the Raleigh, N.C. draft office prompting another picket line where Tieger and Vlasits were prepared to refuse induction.
Tieger was again put off and re-classified with a student deferment. Tieger protested the deferment, but never heard from the draft board again.
Vlasits refused induction, citing his earlier application as a conscientious objector. However Vlasits was convicted of draft refusal and sentenced to five years—serving more than four months before his conviction was overturned. The court ruled that he had been improperly denied conscientious objector status.
Vlasits, also a civil rights and antiwar activist, ended up in the Washington, D.C. area where he teaches at Montgomery Blair High School.
Tieger left the movement in 1972 working with Ram Dass (the former Richard Alpert) and others on a nine-hour PBS series “How Then Shall We Live?”
Following this, he worked with Ram Dass again on “issues of racial healing, deep ecological awareness and compassionate social action.” This turned into a 7-part TV series called “Reaching Out.”
The two projects took nearly 20 years of hand to mouth existence. Tieger now lives in California and is working on his memoirs.
For more information and related images, see www.flickr.com/gp/washington_area_spark/0bE088
Photo by Ken Heinen. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
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Concussion Awareness Committee President Stephanie Nanos with Sam Farkas (l) promoting IMPACT speaker event
As part of our Knife Crime Awareness Week, Greater Manchester Police officers attended Woodhey High School, in Bury, on Wednesday, 10 May 2017.
Officers gave a presentation to the pupils on the dangers and consequences of carrying a knife.
Pupils were also informed of the 'joint enterprise' law. 'Joint enterprise' is when even if it's not you carrying the knife, if you're with someone who uses a weapon to injure or kill, you too could be prosecuted and sentenced.
Officers also stressed that if pupils had any concerns on knife crime, they could speak to their teachers, call GMP on 101, or call Child Line on 0800 1111.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
«invalidi ne dolaze na splitski festival»
“Disabled people do not come to the Split Festival"
Part of an awareness campaign from a group called Prijatelj.
YAVORIV, Ukraine-- Ruslan Romanyshan, emergency services director for the city of Maheriv discusses the dangers of unexploded ordinance with students at the Maheriv school during a mine risk education program. The program is combined with an ongoing health awareness course and educates children in cities surrounding the International Peacekeeping and Security Center on the risk of entering the training area. The program, which is a combined effort between the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine Civil Affairs Team, the IPSC and local communities, is part of JMTG-U's efforts to increase awareness, mitigate risk and clear training areas of UXO. (Army photo by Capt. Scott Kuhn)