Singer Annie Lennox is requesting our attention and support for the National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: March 10, 2008.Please let's show some love, the least we can do is pass this on to help create awareness:
Now here is something altogether different....
A women only police station
MANILA (Reuters) - The rows of fixed lines and a mobile phone hotline never stop ringing as trained counselors alternately take calls from distressed women and children.But this is no ordinary women's crisis center run by some private and non-government groups for battered wives or rape victims and physically abused children in the Philippines.
The freshly painted lavender-and-pink office is actually a police station in Manila, manned by an all-woman team trained to handle crimes committed on women and children.
"Our job is really more difficult than solving murders and robberies," Chief Superintendent Yolanda Tanigue, head of the national police's women and children protection center, told Reuters in an interview.
"We're dealing with crime victims who went through traumatic experiences and those who would rather keep silent about their ordeal than share their personal shame, guilt and self-pity."