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Social workers play detective to reunite families E-Mail

Article Source: USA Today

Social workers and community activists in Haiti are going to orphanages, hospitals, camps and even the medical Navy ship USNS Comfort on the trail of parents of children found alone after last month's devastating earthquake.

Like a squad of detectives hot on a case, they interview children and their caretakers for clues to why a child is unaccompanied.They ask basic questions: The child's name? Parents' names? Where was the child found? Where did the child live?

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Creating Momentum for Women's Participation E-Mail

Article Source: InterPress Service

NEW DELHI, Feb 9 (IPS) - Women's movements have played a critical role in creating political space for female participation in politics around the world. In fact, there are more women in government today than ever before.

According to UNIFEM's Progress of the World's Women 2008/2009 report "Who Answers to Women? Gender & Accountability", women now hold an average of 18.4 percent of seats in national assemblies, though the rate of increase is still very slow.

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DEVELOPMENT: Crisis Could Open Doors for Change, Says UNCTAD E-Mail

Article Source: InterPress Service

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 8, 2010 (IPS) - As the financial crisis continued to threaten world economies last year, the White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously declared: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) subscribes to the Emanuel philosophy that crises always "offer a window of opportunity to embark on a path of more resilient and sustainable economic growth."The Geneva-based U.N. agency implicitly argues that even in the most economically disastrous circumstances, one has to see the brighter side of things - however gloomy the outlook.

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S. Africa Marks Anniversary of Mandela’s Release E-Mail

Article Source: International Herald Tribune - AP

DRAKENSTEIN, South Africa (AP) -- South Africans on Thursday celebrated the steps that sounded apartheid's death knell 20 years ago: Nelson Mandela walking to freedom after 27 years in prison.

Thousands gathered for commemorations near Cape Town at what was known in 1990 as Victor Verster, the last prison where Mandela was held. The crowds milled around a 10-foot (3-meter) high bronze statue erected at the prison in 2008 depicting Mandela's first steps as a free man. Exactly 20 years ago, Mandela emerged from Victor Verster on foot, hand-in-hand with his then-wife Winnie, fist raised, smiling but resolute.

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Costa Rica elects first woman president E-Mail

Article Source: CNN

 (CNN) -- Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory. "I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica," Laura Chinchilla said Sunday to flag-waving supporters in the capital, San Jose. "My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith."

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