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ICRH presentations & posters at HIV 2010 in Vienna
Download posters, abstracts and presentations from ICRH representatives at the HIV 2010 Conference in Vienna.
Design contest : Violence Sensitisation Kit
Create a design in the form of a comic, cartoon, an oil painting, a drawing, a picture, a collage, or whatever you consider appropriate. As long as it fits on an A4-format you can let your creativity run wild!
The 12 most original and most striking designs will be used as a postcard, poster and flyer. Together they make a Sensitisation Kit for the Prevention of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. This Sensitisation Kit will be distributed in reception and asylum centres all over Europe.
1.5 billion USD for child and maternal health
Melinda Gates announced that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is committing $1.5 billion in grants toward maternal, newborn and child health over the next five years.
ICRH wacht mee
What are we waiting for?
In September 2000, the 189 members of the United Nations came together in New York to adopt the United Nations Millennium Declaration, committing to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and setting out a series of time-bound targets - with a deadline of 2015. Today less than 5 years are left to reach the targets. Some 20 Flemish organizations, among which ICRH Belgium, have joined forces to launch a campaign to draw the attention of policy makers and the public to the Millennium Goals and to insist on their realization.
First Lady Mozambique visited ICRH Belgium
The wife of the re-elected Mozambican President and the Minister for Women's and Social Affair visited ICRH Belgium on 7th April 2010.
Marleen Temmerman wins the BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award 2010.
The BMJ Lifetime Achievement Award is granted annually to a person ‘who has, over their working lifetime so far, made a unique and substantial contribution to improving health care’. For the 2010 Life Time Achievement Award, the jury shortlisted 10 nominees out of 117 candidates who had been proposed by the scientific community. The readers of the BMJ website were offered the opportunity to cast votes on one of these 10 candidates. Around 40,000 votes have been registered from all over the world, and resulted in a convincing appointment of Marleen Temmerman as this year’s award winner.
Boekvoorstelling “Vrouwen onder druk” ma 8 maart 2010.
Op maandag 8 maart 2010 wordt het nieuwste boek ”Vrouwen onder druk” van Dr. Els Leye en Dr. Prof. Marleen Temmerman voorgesteld van 12u30 tot 15u30 in de Griffioen te Gent (Koningstraat 1).
De boekvoorstelling gebeurt in de vorm van een panelgesprek dat wordt geleid door ex-VRT journaliste Kris Smet met oa. Dr. Els Leye, Dr. Prof. Marleen Temmerman en Ines Keygnaert als panelleden.
Het boek kan ter plaatse aangekocht worden.
"Desert Flower" te zien vanaf 17 maart 2010
In 'Desert Flower' vlucht de 13-jarige Waris Dirie weg uit haar dorp wanneer haar vader haar wil uithuwelijken. Ze krijgt via haar grootmoeder een post als 'hulpje' toegewezen in de Somalische ambassade in Londen. Waris werkt er 6 jaar lang als slavin, afgesloten van de buitenwereld. Wanneer de ambassade de deuren moet sluiten, wordt Waris geholpen door Marilyn, die haar aan een job bij een fast food restaurant helpt. Hier wordt ze ontdekt door de fotograaf van een internationaal modellenbureau...
Desert Flower
A film by Sherry Horman. Based on the bestselling novel by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller.
Vote for Marleen Temmerman, nominated for Lifetime Achievement Award 2010
Vote for Prof. Marleen Temmerman, nominated for Life Time Achievement Award.