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US Marines ‘spread nude photos of female soldiers in secret Facebook group’

Senior US lawmakers have condemned the suspected distribution of nude photographs of female Marines to military personnel and veterans via a social media network that promotes sexual violence, and called on the Marine Corps to fully investigate. The Marine Corps Times, an independent newspaper focusing on issues involving the service, published an internal Marine Corps communications document with talking points about the issue, describing the social media network as a closed Facebook group with about 30,000 members. The network solicited nude photos of female service members, some of whom had their name, rank and duty station listed, the newspaper reported. A Marine Corps spokesman told the newspaper that military officials are uncertain how many military personnel could be involved. The chairman of the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Republican Mac Thornberry of Texas, and the panel’s senior Democrat, Adam Smith of Washington State, separately called for a…

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Mining Investment Asia Shines Spotlight on ‘Women in Mining’

Mining Investment Asia, South East Asia’s largest mining investment conference, supports International Women’s Day (8 March) – a global initiative celebrating the achievements of women and calling for action to accelerate gender parity. Hence, for our third edition of Mining Investment Asiathis year, we have chosen to pioneer the launch of Asia’s inaugural ‘Women in Mining Day’ during this special month of March. ‘Women in Mining Day’ will be held on 28 March at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, as part of the Mining Investment Asia Conference and Exhibition. Women have traditionally been under-represented in the mining industry. However, with recent announcements from major global mining companies such as BHP Billiton setting goals for 50% of their workforce to be women by 2025, it is timely to look into the role of women in this industry, particularly within Asia. More than 10 leading global and regional speakers will also be attending…

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Health & Personal

Basic Truths about Terminal Diseases- Systemic Scleroderma

A quick search on the internet reveals countless diseases that affect women in many different ways but most women do not know the first things about these diseases and how to guard against them. In this week’s article, we will be presenting the touching story of a young lady who was diagnosed with Systemic Scleroderma just after her honeymoon. Living with this disease has been without doubt the most challenging time in her life even as her body has begun to take other forms. This brings to reality the pains attached with managing terminal illnesses but it also brings a ray of hope to many women living with these diseases across regions because despite her difficulties, Chanel White stays happy as she smiles for her daily selfies to get her mind off the pains. Here is her story: She suffers from a rare autoimmune disease that is turning her body…

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Women & SDG

Gender Equality Key to Achieving SDGs-UNDP

In 2016, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) released the 2016 edition of the African Human Development Report, which revealed that gender inequality jeopardizes Africa’s efforts to achieve economic growth, inclusive human development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report analyzed the economic, political and social drivers that affect women’s advancement in Africa, providing recommendations on how to close the gender gap, and proposing two initiatives to promote gender equality. According to the report, African women achieve only 87% of the human development outcomes of men and made only 7 cents for each dollar made by men, in part due to lower levels of female secondary attainment, lower female labor force participation and high maternal mortality. The UNDP report observes that this gender gap costs sub-Saharan Africa US$95 billion annually on average and that a 1% increase in gender inequality reduces a country’s human development index (HDI) by 0.75%.…

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Janice Bryant Howroyd: Leading effectively through passionate service

Janice Bryant Howroyd is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The ACT-1 Group, the largest woman owned workforce Solutions Company founded in the U.S. She is an entrepreneur, educator, ambassador, businesswoman, author, and mentor. Howroyd was born on September 1, 1952 in Tarboro, North Carolina – USA, the fourth of eleven children in her family. She attended her town’s integrated High School in the Deep South end, where she had to deal with colour segregation. In a 2016 interview, Howroyd recalls her time enrolled in the school, when a teacher spoke about how blacks were well suited for slavery. She, recounted biting the inside of her jaw to avoid shedding tears, as she believed crying could depict accepting defeat. Howroyd eventually became one of the first African American students to desegregate her town’s previously segregated high school. Her personal motto, “Never compromise who you are personally to become who…

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Girl Talk

Is your Daughter Guarding the Concrete Slab?

What is her opinion about herself, religion, or people of a different race? By – Boma Benjy Iwuoha I recently came across a piece by Dr. Diva Verdun, called Guarding the Concrete Slab. It was a story about an army barracks that had 4 soldiers on post, guarding a concrete slab and changing shifts, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, for over 80 years. They never sought to find out why they were on constant shifts, guarding the concrete slab, until a new commander was assigned to the barracks. When the new commander asked why the soldiers guarded the concrete slab, he got the answers; “We’ve always done it this way, it’s our tradition or our former commanders instructed us to do this”. The new commander eventually found answers to his questions in an old document in the archives, and guess what; guarding the slab was an…

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