World Family Policy Center News
6/25/02
Volume 1, Issue 11
The following excerpts are highlights of current events and do not
necessarily represent the views of the World Family Policy Center or Brigham
Young University.
FROM THE WFPC
NEW WORLD FAMILY POLICY CENTER WEBSITE!
The
World Family Policy Center has just launched its new website. The
website is in its beginning phases. Information will be added to it
on a regular basis. Once it is completed, it will be a resource for family
policy research. Check out the website at www.worldfamilypolicy.org
IN THE NEWS
GENDER GAP AMONG COLLEGE GRADS (click
to the read full article)
By Michael A. Fletcher
THE WASHINGTON POST
“This
is new. We have thrown the gender switch,” said Christina Hoff Sommers, a
resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The War
Against Boys.” “What does it mean in the long run that we have females who are
significantly more literate, significantly more educated than their male
counterparts? It is likely to create a lot of social problems. This does not
bode well for anyone.”
WHEN THE WORLD COURTS ABUSE (Click
to read the full article)
NY POST
The
abusive behavior of the U.N.'s Bosnian War Crimes tribunal with regard to an
American journalist prefigures what it is to come after the new International
Criminal Court comes into being in July, and only confirms the wisdom of
America's refusal to sign on to the ICC.
SUPREME COURT TO RULE IF STATES IMMUNE FROM FAMILY LEAVE LAWSUITS (Click to read the full article)
CNN, Washington (AP)
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether state workers can sue their agencies for denying time off to care for a sick family member.
The case,
which the court will hear next fall, could narrow the scope of the 1993 Family
and Medical Leave Act, which allows up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for the
birth or adoption of a child, or to tend to a family illness.
AT THE UN
NEW UN DATA POINTS TO DEVASTATING IMPACT OF AIDS IN AFRICA
(Click to read the full article)
25 June – More than 28 million
Africans are living with HIV, and in some countries at least 30 per cent of the
adult population is infected by the deadly virus, the Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said today as it released data about the
unprecedented devastation the disease is causing in African societies and
economies.
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