Category Archives: Viva!

Ban Ki-moon says woman at helm of UN would be ‘a great idea’

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As the race to choose a successor starts, a campaign for a female appointment grows with two women already put forward

Outgoing UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has lent his support to a growing campaign for the next head of the UN to be a woman.

He told the Observer it was a “great idea”, but was reluctant to be drawn on how realistic the prospect was in an organisation that has never been headed by a woman.

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Protesters march against closure of NHS unit in London that included FGM clinic

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NHS and trade union campaigners protest over closure of urogynaecology unit at St George’s hospital, Tooting

Protesters have marched in London against the closure of an NHS women’s health unit at St George’s hospital that provided one of the only specialist female genital mutilation (FGM) clinics in the country.

The closure of the urogynaecology unit at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Tooting, south-west London, which has a budget deficit of £60m, has united patients, staff and trade unionists in a bid to keep it open.

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Protesters march in support of London FGM treatment clinic

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NHS and trade union campaigners against female genital mutilation protest at cuts to unit at St George’s hospital, Tooting

Protesters have marched in London against the closure of an NHS women’s health unit at St George’s hospital that provided one of the only specialist female genital mutilation (FGM) clinics in the country.

The closure of the urogynaecology unit at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Tooting, south-west London, which has a budget deficit of £60m, has united patients, staff and trade unionists in a bid to keep it open.

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What Should I Tell Her?

When there are no more words – you stand up…

In Saner Thought

It begins the weekend and I get a visit from my daughter and granddaughter…always a delight…..my daughter rants about the state government and my granddaughter asks questions…….

This post is sorta continuance of a post I wrote a couple of days ago……

It is not secret that the light of my life is my granddaughter, who is 13 going on 35, she enjoys her ‘puter and classical music and reads constantly and her and I have some interesting conversations….not about hipster crap but rather actual events that she cannot understand and she turns to the old fart(me) to help her understand……

Recently she had watched a report on the refugees that are trapped in another country looking for a home…..her attention was most drawn to the kids that she saw…..so she knew that I wrote a lot and she and I sat down around the outside picnic table and talked…

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