The Daily IIJ

United Nations Secretary-General Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict yesterday said in Freetown that more needs to be done to support survivors of the violence, both in terms of access to justice, services and helping them reintegrate into the society. Margot Wallstrom who was in the country as part of her official visit to [...]

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The managing director of GreenTech SEnvironmental Solution, Anthony Tabbal, in his statement stated that GreenTech is a newly established company in The Gambia whichfocuses on pro-poor and environmentally friendly products, production and marketing strategies with high potential of extension and diversification.

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The United Nations has launched a new campaign to engage people around the world in a global conversation on the kind of communities they would like to live in twenty years from now.  The campaign will also promote its major conference on sustainable development (Rio+20) to be held in June next year. Continue reading http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2011/11/un-forecasts-better-communities-in.html

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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and China’s academy of sciences has launched a joint programme designed to promote proper management of ecosystems in developing countries, with a special focus on Africa. The International Ecosystem Management Partnership (IEMP), an initiative of the UNEP and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), will have the core mandate [...]

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Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, 4,915 hectares of the Cojuangco-controlled Hacienda Luisita must be awarded to its 6,296 farmworker-beneficiaries under the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), which was started by President Corazon Aquino in 1988.

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Government high officials, experts and many other major actors of the battle against HIV/AIDS, coming from all over the world, met on November 21st, 2011 in Berlin to discuss on news strategies about HIV prevention. At the occasion, Reverend Johannes-Petrus Mokgethi-Heath declared that laws discriminate infected people more than they protect them. By Minakpon Stanislas [...]

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Berlin, Germany. “I take my status as a person living positively with HIV as a huge gift from God. It demands of me to see that I have an inherent dignity as God’s creation,” Reverend Johannes-Petrus Mokgethi-Health said. A very unusual attitude from a Reverend as Church representatives tends to see HIV infections as a [...]

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Malawi is among 12 countries in Africa that have significantly reduced HIV prevalence among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic, according to the UNAIDS 2011 report. The report was unveiled during an HIV High level and Experts Conference held in the Germany’s Capital Berlin under the theme “Health. Right. Now! HIV Prevention without Barriers”. UNAIDS Executive [...]

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Gibril Colley a police officer attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the eight prosecution witness in the treason trial involving Former Communication Minister, Dr. Amadou Scattred Janneh, Modou Keita, Ebrima Jallow and Michel Uche was on Monday 21st November ask by justice Emmanuel Nkea of the Special Criminal Court to go and dress [...]

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Justice Emmanuel Nkea of the Special Criminal court of the High Court in Banjul on Monday 21st of October recues himself from the billion dollar cocaine case appeal file by lawyer Lamin S Camara counsels for the accused persons. When the case was called, the trial judge said before he proceed with the matter he [...]

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