Washington One million babies are alive today because their HIV-infected mothers received medication to prevent them from transmitting the virus to their infants. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry noted that landmark June 18 in a State Department ceremony recognizing the 10th anniversary of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which launched large-scale U.S. assistance for treatment and care of people with HIV/AIDS.

Washington The number of refugees fleeing their homes reached an almost 20-year high in 2012, according to a report on global trends issued June 19 by the U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR. More than 45.2 million people were displaced at the end of 2012, the highest level since 1994.

Human Rights Watch, Nairobi The Sierra Leone authorities should open a criminal investigation of a suspected arms supplier for his alleged involvement in international crimes during Sierra Leone’s civil war, Human Rights Watch said today.

White House Press Release, Washington Hi, everybody. This Sunday is Father’s Day, and so I wanted to take a moment to talk about the most important job many of us will ever have – and that’s being a dad.

Washington Global economic growth and expanded employment will be a significant part of the agenda at the annual summit of the Group of Eight major industrialized nations in Northern Ireland on June 17–18, a White House economic adviser says.

Washington The United States plans to spend $9 billion on nutrition activities through 2014, says U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah.

Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, American women on average are still making only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.

By Moses D. Sandy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania A foreign- based Liberian Journalist says there can be no peace in Liberia without the trial of individuals who committed war crimes against humanity and the state of Liberia.

U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C For the first time, the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program is offering rewards for information on key leaders of terrorist organizations in West Africa: al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA); and the groups known as the Signed-in-Blood Battalion and Boko Haram.

By Trokon Omarley Yeabah, Nanjing, China The world entered the year 2012 facing a stark reality: one in three workers in the labor force is currently either unemployed or poor. That is, out of a global labor force of 3.3 billion, 200 million are unemployed and a further 900 million are living with their families below the US$2 a day poverty line, largely in developing countries. Liberia being among the…