| - Cooking shouldn't kill, says Ghana's Dawuni
"Cooking kills people, to the shocking tune of 2 million each year," writes Ghanaian musician Rocky Dawuni, a new ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves of the United Nations Foundation. "I look at this issue personally. In my native Ghana, where according to WHO statistics, more than 87% of the population is impacted by so-called household air pollution each day," he writes. The Huffington Post (10/16) - Helping women overcome poor educations
The term "education widows" is being applied to young women in northern Ghana who have attended school so poor that they are unqualified for most jobs. UNESCO reports that most women ages 15 to 29 cannot read even one sentence after six years of schooling. The organization Camfed is trying to remedy this. The Guardian (London) (10/16) - Getting girls into schools in Afghanistan
Girls in Afghanistan were prohibited from going to school under the Taliban. Now, more than 3 million are receiving some form of education. Still, about 2 million girls have yet to set foot inside a classroom, and it is unclear how education will fare after NATO forces leave the country. BBC (10/11) - UN: Future of biofuels is small, local
What to do about biofuels? New calculations suggest that U.S. and EU biofuel-production policies are causing food prices to climb by billions of dollars for the world's poor, food-importing countries. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food, explores the consequences of growing crops for both food and fuel, concluding that "if biofuels are to have a future, they must think small-scale and local." The Guardian (London)/Poverty Matters blog (10/17) | | Key Sites | | This SmartBrief was created for ELECCION@YAHOOGROUPS.COM Advertise With Us | Amy DiElsi Director for UN Foundation Communications United Nations Foundation 1800 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036 (D) 202-419-3230 (C) 202-492-3078 (F) 202-887-9021 www.unfoundation.org | | | About UN WIRE | UN Wire is a free service sponsored by the United Nations Foundation which is dedicated to supporting the United Nations' efforts to address the most pressing humanitarian, socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the world today. | | | | | Recent UN Wire Issues: - Wednesday, October 17, 2012
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