Charity News from Monday, Apr. 16, 2001AJC Ad Campaign Urges End to Unjust Treatment of Israel at UN Commission on Human RightsAmerican Jewish Committee | In a full-page ad the American Jewish Committee is urging an end to the blanket discriminatory treatment of Israel at the UN Commission on Human Rights. "Exclusive, obsessive censure of Israel didn't begin in this year's Commission on Human Rights... First U.S. Marine Fish Proposed As Endangered The Ocean Conservancy | - The Center for Marine Conservation (CMC) praised today's announcement that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to list and protect the United States population of smalltooth sawfish (close relatives of sharks) as "endangered" ... Effectiveness of Drug Donations in Crisis Areas Examined Direct Relief International | SANTA BARBARA, CA (April 16, 2001) - Direct Relief International Development Advisor Christopher Brady has just returned from East Timor, where he was taking part in a World Bank and World Health Organization study of drug donations in emergency ... Manure, Paper Waste and Corn Stalks Help Halt Deforestation in Haiti World Concern | World Concern, a Seattle-based Christian relief and development organization, decided to take on the environmental and economic challenge of deforestation in Haiti. World Concern teaches women and families to produce, utilize, and sell the ... Promising Young Scientist Receives National Award St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | (Memphis, Tennessee, April 16, 2001) St. Jude Children's Research Hospitalƒ physician and researcher Cynthia Wetmore, M.D., Ph.D., will receive the second annual Peter A. Steck Memorial Award Friday, April 20, at Houston's M. D. Anderson Cancer ... Screening Program Identifies Newborns with Hearing Impairments Duke University Medical Center | Ryan Yager was born on Sept. 17, 2000, a full-term, nine-pound second son of Oxford residents MaryEllen and Dan Yager. The pregnancy was uneventful and progressed normally. He was a cute, chubby and happy baby.
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