More than 4 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008. This represents a 36% increase in one year and a ten-fold increase over five years, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and [...]

BMO Capital Markets will donate CAD$1.5 million (US$1.4 million) to nine charities across North America through the firm’s annual Equity Through Education charitable program.
The $1.5 million was raised on September 23, 2009 through commissions earned on all institutional equity trades executed by BMO Capital Markets in Canada and the United States. The money will go [...]

Starting today, people from Chicago to Charlotte, Seattle to San Diego, will have a new town hall to debate immigration: their local museum.
The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Chicago), Levine Museum of the New South (Charlotte), Arab American National Museum (Dearborn), and Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle) are part of a national network of museums launching [...]

Swiss Re, Oxfam America, The Rockefeller Foundation and The International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University (IRI) announced a joint Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2009 meeting in New York on 22 – 25 September. Aimed at helping communities most vulnerable to climate variability and change, the collaboration [...]

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA ) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to obtain documents regarding the government’s decision to “reform” 287(g), a federal program that trains local law enforcement officers in illegal immigration [...]

The MJPC deplores and condemns the irresponsibility of the Congolese army deployed on the territory of Uvira in Operation Kimia II and calls for the Congolese government to ensure that the soldiers responsible for atrocities being committed be brought to justice without further delay. The statement follows reports from Radio Okapi that elements of the [...]

A public hunger strike being held by some 34 students on the steps of the Caracas office of the Organization of American States (OAS) was joined by six more people on Sunday night, as the political prisoners Ivan Simonovis, Lazaro Forero, Juan Guevara, Gustavo Azocar, Leocenis Garcia, and Eligio Cedeno published a statement announcing their [...]

The children served by the program represent a cultural and ethnic cross-section of Israel, but all have special needs like autism, deafness, learning disabilities or mental problems. Special needs children like these are enrolled in the Jerusalem zoo program to learn concentration and self-discipline by forming a connection with the animal
The Winnick Family Foundation announced [...]

Friends Forever, a 501(c)(3) global non-partisan advocacy and awareness organization dedicated to peace, today announced the names of youth leaders selected to participate in this year’s “Life Raft” program, which is aimed at organizing young people, particularly in violence –stricken countries like Ireland and Israel, to address the challenges that threaten their communities and to [...]

Staff at Raymond Brown Group in Hampshire donned their running shoes in support of Cancer Research’s UK Relay for Life and has raised a fantastic £20,000.
30 employees from the Construction and Minerals & Recycling divisions – including cancer survivor Donna Otton – took to the track at Ferndown Leisure Centre in Dorset for the 24-hour [...]

Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., today held a hearing on disaster recovery efforts in Galveston, Texas, one year after Hurricane Ike devastated the region and four years after Hurricane Rita. Prior to the hearing, Senator Hutchison and Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas joined the Senator for a tour of the Island and its small businesses to [...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), five United Nations organizations (UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNIFEM, WHO) and private sector supporters will join together later today via the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in a new approach to address the rights violations and health impacts of sexual violence against girls. According to the World Health Organization, [...]

At the Clinton Global Initiative’s (CGI) annual meeting today, Jhpiego, an international non-profit health care organization affiliated with John Hopkins University, announced a multi-year, multi-million dollar commitment to reducing maternal deaths by focusing on the second leading killer of mothers in developing countries, pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.
Over five years, Jhpiego will dedicate $5 million to combat [...]

Netcel, a leading web agency has launched a web 2.0 website to help raise charitable donations for a 1000 mile charity cycle ride.
Between 25 September and 4 October 2009, around 20 industry leaders from the financial services sector, will complete a 10-day, 1000 mile cycle ride from Land’s End to John O’Groats under the name [...]

UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar initiative to improve the capabilities of relief organizations to respond to global emergencies.
The effort, which will involve both UPS and The UPS Foundation, begins with a commitment of up to $9 million over the next two years in the form of substantial financial grants, in-kind services and the [...]