Thursday, January 19, 2012

Need a Husband, Get on Board

Thanks to China's one child population policy, the country now grapples with 41 million bachelors with no spinsters!
According to a report by the Population Reference Bureau, China has for decades suffered an imbalanced sex ratio at birth and is currently facing 'demographic exceptionalism'.
To read more: http://www.prb.org/Articles/2012/china-census-excess-males.aspx

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

You can Prevent Violence against Children

“While legal obligations lie with States, all sectors of

society, all individuals, share the responsibility of

condemning and preventing violence against children

and responding to child victims. None of us can look

children in the eye if we continue to approve or condone

any form of violence against them.”

– Report of the Independent Expert for the UN Study on Violence

against Children, para. 91