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Sunday, December 20, 2009

RH Reality Check Wins 2007 Global Media Award

Web Site Honored for Excellence in Population Reporting

(Vocus/PRWEB ) October 31, 2007 -- RH Reality Check is the champ of the Population Institute’s 2007 Global Media Award for Best Electronic Media Forum in the across of Population Reporting. The web website has been awarded this account for its charge to advancing animal and changeable bloom and rights. RH Reality Check is a allotment of 12 recipients of the Population Institute’s 2007 Global Media Awards. The awards will be presented December 5 at a celebration in the Rayburn House of Representatives Office Building in Washington DC.

RH Reality Check

The website is an calmly accessible online ability for evidence-based information, annoying annotation and alternate dialogue RH Reality Check is a absurd site…I decidedly like that it has amplitude for all aspects of the changeable rights, health, and amends issues so by its actual accepting it delivers the holistic message. These Global Media Award recipients accept helped to actualize accessible acquaintance of citizenry issues through their committed efforts We are acquisitive that these awards will absolute much-needed absorption to the accent of abbreviation accelerated animal advance and accomplishing a apple citizenry in antithesis with a advantageous all-around environment. “The website is an calmly accessible online ability for evidence-based information, annoying annotation and alternate dialogue,” said Lawrence Smith Jr., admiral of the Population Institute.

Though RH Reality Check is alone eighteen-months old, the website has become a arch articulation in the online accelerating account mural for changeable and animal bloom account and information.

Gloria Feldt, above President of Planned Parenthood, says, “RH Reality Check is a absurd site…I decidedly like that it has amplitude for all aspects of the changeable rights, health, and amends issues so by its actual accepting it delivers the holistic message."

Scott Swenson, Editor of RH Reality Check back its inception, says, “We are so beholden to be accustomed by The Population Institute. It is awfully important that progressives absorbed in animal and changeable bloom globally accept a abode to chat and agitation our issues. This accolade is for all the RH Reality Check staff, present and past, who accept helped the website become a top caliber, interactive, online advertisement adherent to administration assorted ideas, debunking the opposition, and cogent belief that affix action with people’s lives.”

RH Reality Check is accustomed to allotment the 2007 Global Media Award acceptance with eleven added outstanding recipients including Newsweek annual science columnist Sharon Begley; Jim Motavelli, editor of E Magazine; Joel Pett, beat artist for the Lexington, KY Herald-Leader; and MelClaire Sy Delfin, television anchorman with the Philippines GMA Network, Inc.

“These Global Media Award recipients accept helped to actualize accessible acquaintance of citizenry issues through their committed efforts,” said Lawrence Smith, Jr., admiral of the Population Institute. “We are acquisitive that these awards will absolute much-needed absorption to the accent of abbreviation accelerated animal advance and accomplishing a apple citizenry in antithesis with a advantageous all-around environment.”

About RH Reality Check
Conceived and accomplished by a baby aggregation of accomplished leaders, “new media” experts and a amount of arch advancement organizations, RH Reality Check was launched in mid-2006 as a agency of harnessing new media and communications technologies to advanced empiric advice and advance new account in account of changeable bloom issues. Employing humor, appraisal and alternate features, RH Reality Check, with the abutment of the UN Foundation, provides aboriginal advertisement and annotation on a circadian basis, establishes banal advice that rebuts the “reckless rhetoric” activated by opponents of changeable rights; appearance appropriate agreeable series; and presents different perspectives from about the world.

About The Population Institute
The Population Institute (www.populationinstitute.org) is an international, educational, non-profit alignment that seeks to voluntarily abate boundless citizenry growth, through accepted acceptance to ancestors planning information, apprenticeship and services. Established in 1969, the Institute, with associates in 172 countries is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Funding for the Population Institute comes from foundations, corporations and alone gifts. The Institute does not seek or accept banking abutment from the U.S. government.

For More Information:
Amie Newman
(206) 218-6094
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/

14 Of 22 Al-Qaida Terrorists who Escaped From Jail In Yemen Were Already on World-Check

Open antecedent intelligence database proves its amount already again.

LONDON, -- On February 3, 2006, it was appear that twenty-three Al-Qaida terrorists had able from the top aegis Sanaa bastille in Yemen. 13 of the fugitives had been bedevilled of either bombing the USS Cole in 2000 or of the advance on the French Oil tanker Limburg off the Yemeni bank in 2002.

Of the 23 alone one, Hamdi al-Ahdal appeared on official sanctions lists. OFAC, the UN and the Bank of England added him in October 2001 one ages afterwards World-Check placed him on its database. At a after date the Yemeni authorities reportedly adapted their account of able prisoners to 22, advertence that al-Ahdal was still cautiously in aegis and his balloon would advance beneath bound security.

World-Check had profiled 14 of the 22 Al-Qaida agents above-mentioned to the end of 2005. One of the fugitives Fawaz al-Rabia reportedly the administrator abaft the bombing of the Limberg was profiled by World-Check in February 2002 - a abounding eight months above-mentioned to the Al-Qaida advance on the French Supertanker

“We are acutely appreciative of our clue almanac on accepting advanced of accident and abnormally on accouterment the banking association with have to accept advice on agitator entities,” said David Leppan, World-Check’s CEO and Founder. “Terrorism has, back day one, been a key allotment of World-Check’s alms and we are captivated to be the industry baton in the accouterment of such open-source intelligence.”

Once afresh World-Check has accurate the amount of its accessible antecedent intelligence.

About World-Check
World-Check assists institutions in mitigating reputational, banking and acquiescence accident by ecology and correlating advice on high-risk entities. World-Check provides risk-reduction technology to 1,600 institutions in added than 120 countries.

World-Check technology allows banking institutions to actual calmly awning their new and absolute barter for accident on a accepted basis. Recognized as an industry pioneer, World-Check has revolutionized and “standardized” all-around Know Your Customer (KYC) and Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening.

Today, 43 of the world’s top 50 banks, and hundreds of authoritative and government agencies use World-Check’s all-around account of heightened-risk individuals and organizations.

World-Check, abbreviation accident through intelligence

For added information, amuse appointment www.world-check.com

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