The Elders urge leaders to take decisiveClimate Action

Ahead of the UN Sustainable Development Goals summit, The Elders call on world leaders to agree on a common approach that yields a “radical and sustainable” plan to tackle climate change.

“You have a decisive role to play in charting the course of history.”

Chaired by Kofi Annan, The Elders is an independent group of global leaders who work together for peace and human rights including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi

In a letter to heads of state...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Jul

Leaders urge sustained action to end mother, child deaths

Leaders and public health experts from around the world yesterday opened a landmark two-day forum here and called for accelerated action to improve maternal, newborn and child health.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

31 Jul

Leaders urge African nations to ban visas

The push for African integration yesterday gained new momentum with a call by former heads of state for a ban on visas among African countries.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Aug

Leaders urge govt to reopen Garissa University College

Celebrations to mark four months since the attack on the university

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Aug

Hats, batons, walking sticks: soft features of leaders leaders op political leaders

Minus Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan, whose presidential luck run out after losing an election to Muhammad Buhari a little over four months ago, Africa has two reigning, hat-wearing heads of state.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Mar

Union puts some elders on the spot

Some Constituent Assembly members have criticised elderly delegates who are opposed to the two-government union structure, saying they should have rejected the merger the day it was established 50 years ago.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Mar

Elders call for recognition in constitution

Elders in the country have urged members of the Constituent Assembly to recognize them as a special group just like people with disabilities, women and others who are often given special treatment including representation in Parliament.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

15 Sep

Money, not superstition, behind murder of elders

Money, not superstition, behind murder of elders
IPPmedia
Most murders of elderly folk in various parts of the country are not relate to superstitious beliefs as previously thought but shockingly, the cold blooded killings are financial related and committed by would be heirs, police have reported. The development ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Apr

CROSSROADS: Whatever happened to respecting our elders?

>The spate of murderous acts in which elderly women are hunted down and killed in cold blood is an unfathomable barbarism. In the areas where the heinous crime is committed, growing old has become a curse.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

20 May

Law for elders' rights coming soon

Law for elders' rights coming soon
Daily News
THE government is expecting to table in Parliament in the next financial year a bill for a law governing elders' rights, it was said here. Deputy Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Regional Administration and Local Government),Mr Kassim Majaliwa ...

 

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