World Health Day campaign: 1000 Cities, 1000 Lives

WHO | World Health Day – 7 April 2010

Urbanisation and health is a nice fresh theme to choose. WHO's blurb below

Virtually all population growth over the next 30 years will be in urban areas, signaling that urbanization is here to stay. It is associated with many health challenges related to water, environment, violence and injury, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors like tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol as well as the risks associated with disease outbreaks.

Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

United Nations

New UN website on the issue of sexual abuse.

Consumer protection news around the world

MemberPressReview-DEC2009.pdf

Consumers International rounds up issues highlighted by its member organisations, and presents them in an easy to digest format. Do take a look.

Burma's Political Prisoners

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
The FCO of the UK government is carrying out a campaign to highlight the political prisoners in the run-up to elections in Burma this year.

More details on this FCO webpage.

Import of candy containing light bulb

AVA Circular (pdf)
I'm struggling to wonder why a manufacturer will produce a candy which contains a light bulb. Glad to see the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority (AVA) releasing a warning, but I didn't see it mentioned in the media yet.

liberty central

guardian.co.uk

liberty central is the section in the Guardian newspaper website dealing with civil liberties and human rights issues. One useful sub-section is a legal clinic dedicated to answering questions on human rights.