Miss University of Zambia (UNZA) 2007 was an entertainment with a difference. Young people came from different parts of the capital Lusaka to witness the crowning of the new queen. Held on December 7, 2007, the event was altogether different from those held in the past....the organizing committee decided to give it a challenging theme: 'Stand Up and Speak Out against Poverty'

Dorothy Ngoma is Executive Director of the National

Organisation of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi. She is also Chair of

the GCAP Malawi platform.

"Enough is enough. The people should not continue to suffer with

people like ourselves, our leaders, and the international community

doing nothing about it. There are enough resources to go around in

this

This year's World AIDS Day commemoration in Zambia had the largest match past i have ever seen. It was well attended and various government ministries as well as civil society organizations participated.   

For some reason or other, i have rarely paid attention to certain world commemorations but this particular one caught my utmost attention. The participants matc

On October 17th not only did I stand up for neglected women in developing countries but I also spoke out against the poor education, poor healthcare, insecure social structure and discriminatory laws on gender basis, pathetic working conditions, longer working hours, lower wages all causing massive injustice, hunger and poverty.

If hunger and poverty are part of the problem and t

I am a youth leader in Northern Bangladesh.  Here 40% of young people are living below the poverty line because they cannot get any work.  To make it worse, the flooding was really bad and gave us the feeling that we had lost so much of the gains we had made in recent years.  This is something I am determined we will not take sitting down.  

I believe so much in the

A month ago Zambia observed its National Day. This has always been a time of much jubilation as people dress up in national colours....like one of those days when our National Soccer Team emerges victorious in a match.

The pangs of poverty have however turned this around over the years. Sometimes it's as though people can hardly notice what date it is on their calendars. Wit

 

            The sun is up and mark the 17^th of October. One busy day for all to make another history to the world.

            Taking it one step further, there can only be one reason. Poverty is the name of the game. Therefore, we as the youth of our nation are

Last week the whole Philippines shut down. Everyone was in the cemetery. While no one was looking, a little girl who had lost hope hanged herself.   

 

November 1 through November 2 is Day of the Dead in the Philippines. During this time, it's tradition to go to the cemeteries and pay homage to your dead relatives. Families pitch tents or set picnic tab

Twenty-four hours later, the numbers are out. Twenty-four hours after scores of Stand Up and Speak Out events were held across the globe to mark World Poverty Day, which saw multitudes of people stand up on streets, paved and unpaved, posh hotel ballrooms, sports coliseums and town squares, schools and offices, marketplaces and hill tops, the final numbers were revealed. Over 38.7 million peopl

 

Stand Up 2007 in Zambia

 

THE Stand Up Event in Zambia was well and extensively attended by various members of the civil society and local community. Despite the failure by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Representative to attend and flag off the match, the Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) Executive Dire