by Shane O'Halloran | Nov 11, 2019 | Advance, Brussels, Empower, Enhance, Female Empowerment, Foster, Global Health, Youth, Youth Empowerment
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: For those of you at the Nairobi Summit over the coming days, I hope you will join us at our concurrent session: Showcasing and Celebrating African Achievements: Cairo to Addis Ababa to Nairobi and Beyond Date: Wednesday, Nov. 13 Time: 3-4:30 pm...
by Shane O'Halloran | Nov 11, 2019 | Empower, Female Empowerment, Youth, Youth Empowerment
I am, of course, referring to the ground-breaking International Conference on Population and Development that took place in Cairo in 1994. At this event, 179 governments reached an unparalleled consensus that population policy must be based on the human right to...
by Shane O'Halloran | Sep 26, 2018 | Female Empowerment, Foster, Global Health
When I was growing up in Ireland, the sale and advertising of modern contraceptives was banned. As ridiculous as it sounds now, the only way to obtain modern contraceptives was to buy them illegally down dark corners in some of the more dodgy parts of Dublin. Yes,...
by Shane O'Halloran | Dec 3, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
I think 2015 will be remembered as the year when Europe finally woke up to the true reality of human suffering caused by war and violence across the world. So far this year, an estimated 750,000 people have braved the perils of travelling by land and sea to seek an...
by Shane O'Halloran | Sep 21, 2015 | Youth Empowerment
Malaria falls under the category of a poverty-related and neglected diseases, a list which also includes a host of life threatening diseases such as HIV & AIDS, and tuberculosis. Children especially are more prone to these diseases and it is estimated that 1.5...
