PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Appalachian Kentucky has significant challenges associated with health, socioeconomic, and education disparities. This predominantly rural region not only has the highest cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States, it is also one of the most economically disadvantaged, medically underserved, and poorly educated regions of the country in which less than 1% of residents earn doctoral degrees. These disparities form the basis for the need to create targeted educational and scientific workforce preparedness and health literacy intervention strategies for this population. As such, the research, educational, and outreach strengths of the University of Kentucky's Markey Cancer Center will be leveraged to develop the Appalachian Career Training In ONcology (ACTION) Program as a Youth Enjoy Science education intervention. The ACTION Program will immerse underrepresented and underservedGenerations of Africans face incestuous rape and discrimination in country that is west's ally against al-Qaida, says rights expert

Black Mauritanians are still subject to slavery-like practices, including sexual violence and discrimination, a UN human rights expert has said.

The UN special rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere, told the Guardian that generations of people, particularly women and girls, were still living with families in a "slavery-like" relationship, and were being forced into sex with male relatives, in some cases with their fathers.

"You have situations where people still live with and are working for certain families, and where women are forced to have sexual relations with family members – fathers and sons," said Ruteere, speaking from Kenya. "And there are situations where children, particularly the girls who are the products of