Contact: Robert Peters, Morality in Media, 212-870-3210NEW YORK, Feb. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- MIM President Robert Peters has advised the FCC that while parents are the"first line of defense"in protecting children from harmful content online and elsewhere, a reliance on parents is"not the whole answer."This was in response to an FCC"Notice of Inquiry"[MB Docket No. 09-194)] seeking comment on"how to empower parents to help their children take advantage of the opportunities Source: Morality in Media

WASHINGTON,Feb 23(IPS)-Reducing the annual 13 million preterm births and3.2 million stillbirths should be a global public healthpriority, says a report released Monday which asserts thatsignificant reductions in these numbers could be achieved byimproving access to low-cost interventions in both low andhigh-income countries.

BERLIN,Feb 23(IPS)-New cases of tax evasion in several Europeancountries are showing the limits of the informal agreementsreached between the Organisation for Economic Cooperation andDevelopment (OECD) and tax havens such as Switzerland, Luxembourgand Liechtenstein.

UXBRIDGE, Canada,Feb 22(IPS)-The mighty mountains of hazardous electronic wasteare growing by about 40 million tonnes a year globally. In China,India and South Africa, those mountains are expected to grow 200to 500 percent in the next decade, a new report warns.

WASHINGTON,Feb 22(IPS)-Following a meeting with U.S. President BarackObama and a summit last week, human rights activists from a rangeof countries released a plan of action Monday according to whichthe United States can lead the way in safeguarding human rights.

UNITED NATIONS,Feb 21(IPS)-To halt the planet's declining biodiversityand loss of critical natural resources, both the economy we livein and communication about science needs to be changedprofoundly, says a prominent Dutch ecologist.

UNITED NATIONS,Feb 20(IPS)-The Holy Child Integrated Agricultural Centre, anorganic farm near Abeokuta in southwestern Nigeria, was lookingforward to having running water. An industrial borehole hadalready been already installed, and a pump and piping to variousbuildings were in place.

WASHINGTON,Feb 19(IPS)-The improving security situation in Iraq in therecent years has meant more space for the United Nations to playan active role in the country's development in varioussectors.

UNITED NATIONS,Feb 19(IPS)-The"world's longest toilet queue,"scheduled for next month, may not be a celebrity-filled eventworthy of a Hollywood spectacle - but it could still find a placein the Guinness Book of World Records.

MANILA,Feb 19(IPS)-Rice and condoms do not usually land on the samelist of household basics inthe predominantly CatholicPhilippines, but extremely poor couples here withhuge familieswould choose rice if given the two options.

LONDON,Feb 19(IPS)-A new documentary‘Diary of a Disgraced Soldier’follows the dismissal from the British army of an Iraq warveteran and his battle with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)linked to his videographing the brutalising of Iraqi youth byfellow servicemen.

UXBRIDGE, Canada,Feb 18(Tierramérica)-Countries have largely failed to endorse theCopenhagen Climate accord by the Jan. 31 deadline. On Thursday,the key official in the United Nations climate treaty processannounced his resignation.

UNITED NATIONS,Feb 18(IPS)-The statistics relating to the world'ssocially and economically-distressed women are staggering.

GENEVA,Feb 18(IPS)-International human rights groups and Iranianactivists say Iran's decision to reject majorrecommendations made by the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Councilon Wednesday is disappointing and signals that Tehran has nointention of easing the crackdown on dissent in the country.

ROME,Feb 18(IPS)-Developing countries must tone down the boomingvoice bureaucrats have inpolicies and target corruption ifcommitments to defeat hunger are to be turnedinto action,leaders and experts at a United Nations meeting said Wednesday.