This is the second report of the involvement of the team at the commission on the following issues. Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro presents a video message for all YWCA members recognizing the enormous contributions of volunteers in building the movement and advancing its goals and vision. The 2.3 minute message requires RealPlayer to be installed on your computer. We appreciate the collaboration of Orbital Company in Geneva to have made this video possible. Around the world, YWCAs are preparing for their celebrations of World YWCA Day held annually on April 24.
Several resources are available to YWCAs as they plan activities and events around the day.
We explore how YWCAs are raising awareness about the disease among young women and men and how one woman is helping AIDS orphans. In the first two weeks of the 57 th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, meeting in Geneva this year from March 17 to April 27, a World YWCA team has been actively working to promote its agenda of world peace with justice and women s and children s rights. This is the first of two reports of the involvement of our team. The major earthquake with Richter Scale readings of 7.9 occurred in Gujarat, the western state of India, is the worst natural calamity the country has had. Estimates of dead range to 100,000.