Heinous crime against children is being committed at the blind sight of the police. Child trafficking for labour and sex is on the increase in Ghana. While child labour is taking place at the fishing communities, child commercial sex was taking place in brothels in our cities and towns.

Are police aware of this No. The Northern regional police command said they have no knowledge about…

Hey Everyone!

For those of you who are interested in the TH!NK5:Water Competition you may want to know that this round's first guest blogger has just been introduced! Joseph B. Treaster is the editor of OneWater.org and has written a compelling blog post about water and cholera. To read it, please click…

I'm writing this in Tromsö, which sees itself as Norway's "Gateway to the Arctic", two hours flight out of Oslo.

The "Arctic Frontiers" conference is dedicated to the theme of "Arctic Tipping Points", which are interpreted in various different ways by the politicians, scientists and others speaking and…

Lucca in a small city in Tuscany, Italy. It's beautiful and singular: it's totally surrounded by Roman and Medieval Walls. In Lucca there is a Community for unaccompanied minors, who come from Albania and Morocco.

Cabbages, robbery, lettuce, leeks, tomatoes. Imagine well-cultivated land in an area of quite large.…

The Right to Information Bill when passed to will give media practitioners the leverage to access information and materials for publication as well as afford journalist to be professional in their work. Regrettably however, the parliament of Ghana and for that matter the committee responsible says its broke and financially constrained hence the delay in its passage. WHAT..........God save us.

The Chairman of Parliament’s Communication Committee, Felix Twumasi-Appiah says the house has…

… In 2003 year when it was declared an exceptional situation in

Vorniceni village, Moldova, because at the “Ion Inculet” lyceum there

were identified 75 cases of Hepatitis A.

The first step to create The Moldovan Network of Rural

Volunteering Centers for Water (MNRVCW).

The MNRVCW Mission aims at expanding its activities including other

villages, countries on local, regional, national, European and

International level.

Therefore, Network is asking you to…

Bangladesh Fashion Week will be a six days Fashion industry event in Bangladesh alike other International Fashion Week in the world. 

http://www.bangladeshfashionweek.com

http://www.facebook.com/bangla deshfashionwk…

Frozen, feel like a snow woman. Stood here in snow and there in snow waiting in snow for daughter Jasmine in snow & girls in snow to dig that God in snow blessed tunnel through the snow hill near the school.

Snow woman traditionally consists of 3 big snow balls with a carrot instead of the nose, birth tree branch symbolizing the lips, an old bucket with rust all over instead of a hat. A prototype of snow woman is a Russian woman. She is a kindhearted creature with a smile which…

This is only a link I'm afraid, as I don't want to plaguarise the Guardian!

But check out the former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford's 25 commandments for journalists and let me know what you think.

Stuxnet may be the most developed tool for cyber war today, it made more harm to Iran's nuclear development program than all the sanctions and diplomatic negotiations together. Despite its…

"Fedora 14 talk and Media Distribution"

It's been almost a year, since I've attended my last Fedora event on 25th February, 2010. it wasAsian University (Dhaka) Fedora 12 Release…

Crop yield declining fast

The areas affected by increased salinity in the coastal region have been increasing significantly over the recent years due to rise in the sea level caused by global warming, according to a recent study.

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The media in Ghana has been wobbling, and for so long suffered unethical “disease” and risk closing down. This however challenged the chairman of the National Media Commission (NMC), an independent body or regulator of the media which is made up of various professional bodies in Ghana set up to help streamline media field, Ambassador Kabral Blay-Amihere to called for the establishment of Media Development Fund (MDF) to support…

PREVIEW

A year after setting up Journalism in Crisis Coalition, JiCC has a new home on the web.

Very much a work in progress, EJC members can get a (... very early ...) preview of the site taking shape at…

The judicial inquiry commission formed to investigate the acts of violence against the minority groups and leaders-activists of the then opposition party after the 2001 parliamentary polls has finalized its probe report.

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