Improving Maternal Health a Priority for The United States
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cites that when Zimbabwe's system began to crumble, its maternal mortality rates shot up dramatically.
West Virginia Teachers Complain Over Proposed Retirement Change
West Virginia-AFT spokesman Josh Sword told the Gazette that rumors of a change in the retirement age 'spread like wildfire' among teachers, and the union is encouraging them to demand the IRS exempt public school employees.
Tobacco Use Grows Fastest in Low-Income Countries
Stepping up efforts to control it which could kill up to one billion people this century, top United Nations official today called on governments to resist the increasingly aggressive steps taken by the tobacco industry to undermine efforts to reduc
‘Foods of the Poor’ Play Important Role in Hunger Crisis
According to FAO, globalization has reduced the number of plant species used for food and other purposes from roughly 100,000 to about 30.
Anti-Semitism on The Rise All Over The World
She cites that there are countries where government-sponsored anti-Semitism abounds and there are corners of the globe where the old Tsarist forgery 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' is still being taught in schools as fact.
