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Katherine Heigl Pledges $1 Million to Stop Shelter Killing

Filed Under: Education, New
Sep.30, 2010

Pet overpopulation has resulted in an estimated 3 to 4 million cats and dogs euthanized each year. The population crisis is a community-wide issue that has solutions rooted in responsible pet ownership.

The newly founded Compassion Revolution has inspired actress Katherine Heigl to donate $1 million from her Heigl Foundation for spay/neuter programs in the Los Angeles area. The goal is for Los Angeles county to become a no-kill community. Heigl plans to lead by example, inspiring other communities to “reject killing as a method of achieving results.”

In many ways, Heigl is on the right track. A number of cities and counties across the U.S. are working toward the same no-kill goal, not just in having no-kill shelters but creating an entire no-kill community. It only takes one person to say enough is enough. Fortunately, celebrities have a built in audience to have their voices heard.

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Thank Ethiopia For allowing Eritrean Refugees to Live Outside Camps

Filed Under: International, New
Aug.21, 2010

10 August 2010 %u2013 Ethiopia has recently decided to take a new approach to Eritrean refugees by allowing them to live outside camps, a move welcomed by the United Nations refugee agency.

Under the so-called %u2018out-of-camp%u2019 scheme announced last week, Eritreans who can sustain themselves financially or have relatives or friends who commit to supporting them no longer have to stay in camps.

The policy shift is due to discussions between the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ethiopian Government.

%u201CGiven the fact that Eritrea and Ethiopia were a single political entity before the 1993 referendum, the new policy is also a response to refugees%u2019 wishes and needs for strengthened people-to-people relations between the two countries,%u201D UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic told reporters in Geneva.

More than 60,000 Eritrean refugees have crossed the border into Ethiopia since the border conflict in the late 1990s between the two countries.

I am really proud of what our Ethiopian brothers and sisters have done. This decision is great. I hope other countries will follow Ethiopias decision to allow refugees to live outside camps.
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Your Excellency Prime Minister ? Melles Zenawi, i am really proud of what you did. As you always say, Governments will pass but not people of the two sisterly countries. We have same religion, same culture, same ancestry and so on.
?You are playing a great role and i want to thank you for that on behalf of the Eritrean people, and the Organizations to which i am a member of; Student World Assembly, Amnesty International( Voice Ambassadors), TakingITGlobal, Care2, One.org, World Youth Alliance, African Youth Foundation and others……
Currently i am a Human right Activist and i hope to meet you in person so as to thank you for everything you are doing to our Eritrean brothers and sisters.
? Thank you again your Excellency and hope you will continue to help Eritrean refugees.

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Thank Ethiopia For allowing Eritrean Refugees to Live Outside Camps

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TV Advertising to Kids Switches From Sugar to Grease

Filed Under: New, Politics
Jul.08, 2010

Kids are now seeing fewer TV commercials for sweets and sugary beverages than before, says a new report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. But this good news is tempered by an increase in the number of TV ads for fast food.

The research team looked at television advertising targeted at children from 2003 to 2007. Researchers found that on average, children between the ages of two and 11 are seeing 30 percent fewer ads for fruit drinks and soft drinks. In addition, ads for candies, cookies, and other sweets went down 35 percent. But ads for fast food increased by eight percent, with two-to-five-year-olds seeing more ads for fast food than cereal. Lisa Powell, one of the researchers, commented, “That suggests a lot of branding is going on. They are starting marketing of brand loyalty at an earlier age.”

What is perhaps most shocking, however, is the disparity between children of different races. The researchers found that African-American children saw 1.4 to 1.6 times as many food ads each day as their white counterparts, and they saw double the number of fast-food ads. Just think about that for a moment along with the oft-cited statistic that one in three children born after 2000 will suffer from diabetes, and if that group is narrowed down to just minority children, the number rises to one in two. Maybe not a direct correlation, but I wouldn’t be willing to bet against a connection.

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2010 World Food Prize Recognizes Grassroots Hunger-Fighters

Filed Under: International, New, Tech
Jun.19, 2010

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug created the World Food Prize in 1986 to recognize important contributions to improving the world’s food supply. It’s become the world’s foremost honor for “the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world.”

The just-announced 2010 Laureates — David Beckmann and Jo Luck — are both innovators in grassroots efforts to help fight hunger and poverty around the world. They have each shaped their organizations, Bread for the World and Heifer International, into leaders in global poverty-alleviation and hunger-reduction by figuring out the best ways to inspire widespread support and action.

Beckmann, a Lutheran pastor and economist, heads Bread for the World, “a collective Christian voice urging decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad.” The organization has inspired at least a quarter of a million constituents every year to contact their elected officials to demand policies that help the world’s poor get enough food.

As CEO of Heifer International, Luck has helped 12 million families feed themselves by getting donors to provide them with food- and income-producing animals. Luck has institutionalized the idea of “paying it forward,” or, in Heifer-ese, “Passing on the Gift,” a policy that asks every family that receives an animal to give one of the animal’s female offspring to another needy family. The gifts allow families to sustain themselves, leading to greater independence, self-empowerment, and food security.

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