Africa: International Women's Day 2008 - Message From Unifem
This year on International Women's Day we have an opportunity to break new ground in the struggle for women's rights and gender equality, including the urgent need to end violence against women in all of its forms.
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Ethiopia: Prominent Artists Engage UNFPA's 'Stop Early Marriage' Campaign
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) organized a canvas painting event at Meskel Square on 7& 8 March 2008 participating Ethiopia's prominent artists in its campaign under a theme "Stop Early Marriage".

Green Pyjama Jobs: Dutch Student Gets Rich Staying In Bed
a student in the Netherlands is actually doing it. Yde Van Deutekom, 22, from Zoetermeer, is selling advertising on a website featuring a webcam showing him in bed. He says ""Sleeping is just a hobby of me, and it is the only thing I'm very good at. Everyone is asking what I want to do with me life, but what I really want to do is sleep. I stay in bed all day, except for taking a shower, going to the bathroom and making something to eat. That's all I want to do. And I want to stay in bed until I'm very rich."

Happiness Is Partly Inherited
"Although happiness is subject to a wide range of external influences we have found that there is a heritable component of happiness which can be entirely explained by genetic architecture of personality," said study team leader Alexander Weiss of the University of Edinburgh.
http://www.livescience.com/health/080304-happy-genes.html

Mr Wilders' Dutch film called Fitna, an Arabic word used to describe strife or discord, will show how the Koran is "an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror".
Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif to protest against the film.
"We don't want Danish and Dutch troops in Afghanistan. They should be kicked out of the Nato forces here."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7274259.stm


An innovative online party planning tool that provides children and their parents with the opportunity to protect the environment while saving time and money in the process. Perhaps not surprisingly, co-founder Alison Smith declares that “ ECHOage is convenience and conscience wrapped up in a big green ribbon!”
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/eco-birthdays-with-a-twist.php