Day: May 6, 2016

FDA Takes Significant Steps To Protect Americans From Dangers Of Tobacco Through New Regulation

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule extending its authority to all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco and pipe tobacco, among others. This historic rule helps implement the bipartisan Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and allows the FDA to[Read More…]

HRC and Equality NC Urge UNC Leadership to Reject HB2 and Comply with Federal Civil Rights Law

LGBT civil rights organizations call on university leaders to do the right thing: protect the wellbeing of students, avoid loss of billions in federal funding Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC have sent letters to chancellors and presidents of the University of North Carolina and North Carolina Community[Read More…]

3 Weeks Later: Gov. McCrory & NC Assembly Leadership Have Still Not Fulfilled Open Records Request

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Thursday marked three weeks since the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC filed an open records request seeking information from the office of Gov. Pat McCrory, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, and House Speaker Tim Moore about their communications with anti-LGBT activists to pass the disastrous HB 2 into[Read More…]

HRC Announces Fellowships for 10 Young Nonprofit Leaders Working to End HIV in America

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, announced its selection of 10 outstanding, young community-based leaders for a nine-month fellowship providing high-level training to elevate their work ending HIV in hard-hit U.S. communities.[Read More…]

United Nations Zika Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund Launched

New York, NY-(ENEWSPF)- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has established the United Nations Zika Response Multi-Partner Trust Fund to finance critical unfunded priorities in the response to the Zika outbreak.  The Trust Fund provides a rapid, flexible and accountable platform to support a coordinated response from the United Nations system and[Read More…]

Indigenous Peoples to Seek Measures for Preventing Conflict, Securing Peace, at Annual Forum, 9-20 May

New York, NY-(ENEWSPF)- More than 1,000 indigenous participants from all regions of the world are expected to attend the fifteenth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 May. The issues of peace and conflict, often relating to indigenous peoples’ lands,[Read More…]

All Sectors of Society Must Collaborate, Innovate, Invest to Fulfil Paris Agreement Goals, Secretary-General Tells Climate Action Summit

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at Climate Action 2016, in Washington, D.C., today: It is a great pleasure to be with you today.  Just two weeks ago, 175 countries came to the United Nations to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change.  Never before[Read More…]

FDA Investigates Listeria Outbreak Linked to Frozen Vegetables

Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- What is the Problem and What is Being Done About It? The FDA, CDC and state and local officials are investigating a multi-state outbreak of listeriosis identified in March 2016. The CDC reports that eight people infected with the outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from[Read More…]

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