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RH BILL AND YOUNG PEOPLE with Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago
Related to country: Philippines


 

The Student Council Alliance of the Philippines
in partnership with The Forum for Family Planning and Development, Inc 
and the Political Science Society of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa, 
 
invites you to:
 
RH BILL AND YOUNG PEOPLE
 
with Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago
 
November 25, 2011 (Friday)
Registration starts at 9:00 AM
Covered Gym, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Muntinlupa
 
For queries, please contact Gibby @ 09173627480 or e-mail us at scap.neb@gmail.com
 
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GIBBY B. GORRES
Executive Director, Center for Youth Advocacy and Networking, Inc.
National Secretary General, Student Council Alliance of the Philippines
+63917-362-7480
gibbygorres@yahoo.fr
scap.neb@gmail.com
scapnational.wordpress.com
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November 26, 2011 | 3:01 AM Comments  0 comments

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Somalia's leaders commit to UN process to end recruitment of child soldiers
Related to country: Somalia


UN News Service

23 November 2011 – The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today secured a commitment from top officials in Somalia’s transitional Government to start a process to end the recruitment and use of children in the country’s armed forces. 


Radhika Coomaraswamy, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, secured the commitment from the President and the Prime Minister during her visit to Mogadishu, the capital, where she also spoke with children who had escaped from the ranks the Al-Shabaab insurgency, which is fighting against the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). 

“Completion of an action plan will ensure that the TFG is child-free,” said Ms. Coomaraswamy. It would also “allow the United Nations to remove the Government from the ‘list of shame’ of parties that commit grave violations against children.” 

During the meeting with Ms. Coomaraswamy, President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and Defence Minister Hussein Arab Essa recommitted the TFG to the signing and implementation of a Security Council-mandated plan to end the recruitment and use of children in its forces, and pledged to immediately nominate military and civilian focal points within the Government to work with the UN to achieve that goal. 

Ms. Coomaraswamy visited a camp in Mogadishu where Al Shabaab defectors and those who had surrendered are being held. Among them are 37 former child soldiers. She met with a 16-year-old boy who escaped after being trained as a suicide bomber and was injured in battle. 

The boy’s case “highlights the fact that children associated with Al Shabaab are victims,” she said. “They must be transferred rapidly to civilian child protection actors, and be separated as soon as possible from adult Al Shabaab ex-combatants in order to begin the transition back to civilian life.” 

The UN supports programmes for the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups. Such programmes promote rehabilitation of children through counselling, back-to-school initiatives and skills-based training, including family reunification. 

In a meeting with Ms. Coomaraswamy, General Fred Mugisha, the commander of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM), reiterated the force’s commitment to protecting civilians, and children in particular, during military operations. 

He pledged to continue to provide maximum support for efforts to identify and separate children from the TFG forces, including through the appointment of a child protection advisor in AMISOM. 

Ms. Coomaraswamy urged all UN partners to work closely with the TFG, AMISOM, and donors to step up efforts to prevent the recruitment of children, and the release and reintegration of those formerly associated with armed forces and groups. 

“With Mogadishu more secure following the withdrawal of Al Shabaab, the onus is on the international community to assist the Government’s efforts towards stability,” said Ms. Coomaraswamy. 

Both the TFG and Al Shabaab are listed in the Secretary-General’s annual report on children and armed conflict as recruiters and users of child soldiers. Listed parties must sign and implement action plans to end the grave violation or face the possibility of Security Council sanctions. 

The Security Council in June expanded the criteria for offences that can lead to sanctions in Somalia to include grave violations against children.

 

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November 26, 2011 | 2:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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Run4+Lives
Related to country: Philippines


Run for Positive Lives

The 1st Run for HIV and AIDS in the Philippines

“Getting to Zero”

Zero New HIV Infections. Zero Discrimination. Zero AIDS Related Deaths.
Join us on December 10, 2011 at CCP Complex, Pasay City!

The Philippine NGO Support Program (PHANSuP) in collaboration with the Lifeguide Portal - an informational website for people living with HIV operated by Pinoy Plus, Babae Plus and Positive Action Foundation is undertaking the first ever Run for Positive Lives this coming December 10, 2011.

The event will be in line with the 2011 World AIDS Campaign with the theme "Getting to Zero", a campaign supported by the UN joint programme on AIDS or UNAIDS with the objective in attaining ‘Zero New Infections’, Zero AIDS-related Deaths and ‘Zero Discrimination’ by year 2015. This initiative strives to explore innovative strategies in reaching the public on the campaign on HIV and AIDS and  double our our collective efforts to meet the our country's Millennium Development Goals commitment for HIV and AIDS by 2015.  
 
We expect 3,000 runners as well as at least 3,000 signatures promoting "Positive Living" as a means of achieving the goal of  Getting to Zero - new infections, - aids-related deaths and discrimination which is part of our policy recommendations for the amendment of the AIDS law. "The Positive Living" initiative is PHANSuP's version of the UNAIDS publication on positive health, dignity and prevention.
 
Apart from this advocacy campaign, the Run for Positive Lives also seek to earn proceeds that will sustain the +Lifeguide electronic portal (www.pinoylifeguide.org)  as an on-line resource for PLHIV particularly those who are newly diagnosed for basic information about HIV and AIDS, inspirational life stories of survival and hope, as well as sources of treatment, care and support.
 
In line with this, PHANSuP with support from the MAC AIDS Fund will sponsor runners from the communities of LGBTs, male and female sex workers, people living with HIV and other key populations  for the 4 kilometer run category. Slots are also reserved for social hygiene clinic HIV counselors in Metro Manila

The sponsorship will include a running shirt, a drink and a certificate and will have the opportunity  for own community group or organization to be enlisted in the directory of community-based groups in the Philippine HIV Response to be published this December 2011.

Slots are still available, for interested parties, please contact our Events Coordinator, Miss Heizel Mainar at (0915) 8504030 or (0949) 6371853. You may also email your inquiries to run4positivelives@gmail.com.
 
Visit our facebook page at:  http://www.facebook.com/events/121720424598499/

Thank you very much

John PIermont Montilla
Project Officer
HIV and AIDS Programs
 
Philippine NGO Support Program, Inc. (PHANSuP)
(engaging communities for health and development)
Operating Units: APRDC, ARETS and SAGAT
4/F VD&S Bldg., 59-B Panay Avenue, Quezon City 1103 Philippines
Tel/Fax: (+632)-332-1914 | +639166682183 | johnpiermont_vm@yahoo.com | skype: fareasternsoul | 
Weblink: http://www.aidsalliance.org/linkingorganisationdetails.aspx?id=15 

November 20, 2011 | 2:10 AM Comments  0 comments

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EMERGENCE THERAPY VIA ARTS
Related to this project: Heal, Empower, Affirm-Reaffirm, Recover & Transform (HEART) Innovation: Transformative Behavior Change Package for Boys

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

Dear Friends With regards to the upcoming World AIDS Day Campaign 2008 with the them Leadership, the Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay (KGPP), Inc. will initiate a fund-raising campaign for our most-at-risk children and youth (boys 7-17 years old) dubbed as “mga nawong sa likod sang masskara” a unite for children unite against AIDS local campaign for children. Tickets are sold at 300.00 PhP each inclusive of meal and a handcrafted art souvenir item, a certificate and invitation programme or package B of 500.00 PhP + a reproduced art counseling piece representing a life of a prostituted boy. The dinner venue is at Romeo’s grill 2nd Floor Metrodome, Sincang, Bacolod City on December 1, 2008 at 7:00 pm. Arts and crafts are produced by street children during the Artwork Festival of Street Children during the Masskara Festival celebration held at the publi47c plaza last October 19, 2008 and these will be sold at 200.00 – 500.00 pesos each. Street children will also join us during the World AIDS Day Campaign and the dinner for their meaningful participation. Income generated from this activity is dedicated to create a trust fund for the sustainability of the art therapy, counseling and workshops and to transition these children to formal, non-formal or vocational education system and training to alleviate impact of the hazards of street life they confront daily as part of our commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. KGPP, Inc. Bacolod City


November 17, 2008 | 8:10 PM Comments  0 comments

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Art-therapy 1: Kevin
Related to this project: Heal, Empower, Affirm-Reaffirm, Recover & Transform (HEART) Innovation: Transformative Behavior Change Package for Boys
About this event: XVII International AIDS Conference
Related to country: Philippines

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Self-expression of “Kevin’s Victimisation Transformed into Art by the Artist's Hands through Art Counselling

Name of Child: Kevin, started prostitution at age 8
now 16 years old working as peer educator under the
UNICEF Country Programme for Children –6
Counselling-artist: Levi Salmon
Counsellor: Virginia Tinsay-Advincula, RSW
Original piece bought by: Ms. Mylene Salamero at the AIDS Conference Mexico, August 6, 2008

October 8, 2008 | 3:50 AM Comments  0 comments

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