UN NEWS CENTER: Children in countries facing famine threatened by lack of water, sanitation – UN agency
29 March 2017 – In African and Middle Eastern countries facing famine, unsafe water is as dangerous for severely malnourished children as lack of food, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today warned, noting that nearly 27 million people are at risk in northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56453#.WN0gXfkrIps
Medicines should help, not harm, says UN health agency launching global patient safety 'challenge'
29 March 2017 – Medicines should help, not harm, says UN health agency launching new global patient safety 'challenge'
Underlining that medicines should fulfil their real purpose – help people, not harm them – the United Nations health agency today launched a world-wide 'Challenge' that that seeks to reduce severe, avoidable medication-associated damage across the globe by half over the next five years.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=56457#.WN0hAPkrIps
WE THE PEOPLE
Stop the sales of all weapons and arms to Saudi Arabia, until they stop enslaving women and end The Guardianship Laws.
Saudi Arabia is looking to continue its war in Yemen and the current administration plans to begin selling arms to them.
We want Congress or the President to use the only leverage we have and stop all sales of Weapons and Arms to Saudi Arabia until they end the Guardianship laws.
Guardianship Laws in Saudi Arabia require women to get a mans permission to Work, Go to School, Leave the house, Travel outside of the country, or leave the country in general. Women are forcibly bound and every major decision in their lives is taken away from them and given to a Male Guardian in their life who chooses what she can or can not do.
The laws strip the basic human right of Autonomy and Saudi Arabia has promised twice to end them before and still have not. We must act now while we have leverage. ---petition link
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sales-all-weapons-and-arms-saudi-arabia-until-they-stop-enslaving-women-and-end-guardianship-laws
United States: 12 Deaf Plaintiffs Sue Banner Health For Lack Of ASL Interpreters And Lack Of Auxiliary Communication Aids---Mondag
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=580252&email_access=on&chk=2055056&q=1474804
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