Million women in Asia at risk of HIV
Media For Freedom
Also at the conference, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) warned that more than 90 per cent of men who have sex with men in the Asia-Pacific region do not ...

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Kevin Rudd – Australia – Viet Nam Joint Statement – Nong Duc Manh
Reverse PR (press release)
Vietnam took note of and supported continued discussion of Australia's initiative for an Asia Pacific community and will positively consider Australia's ...

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The Nut Graph
Sex and the constitution
The Nut Graph
Having said that, such rights are inherent to every individual, regardless of whether there is a HIV pandemic or not. Women's rights are human rights. ...

Experts Call For Strengthened Legal Services To Fight HIV ...
Medical News Today (press release)
The experts attended a seminar on HIV-related legal services hosted jointly by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Asia Pacific Network ...

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บางกอกโพส
New anti-HIV strategy to start in classrooms
บางกอกโพส
He is researching sexual orientation and gender identity in a human-rights context in Southeast Asia and is currently studying law at the University of ...

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Advocates for Health Millennium Development Goals Unite to Demand ...
CNW Telbec (Communiqué de presse)
A Declaration of Solidarity for a Unified Movement for the Right to Health was drafted at that meeting, and is being endorsed by health and human rights ...

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Africa: What the G8 Leaders Say On Africa
AllAfrica.com
We commit to counter any form of stigma, discrimination and human rights violation and to promote the rights of persons with disabilities and the ...

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Global Praise for Delhi High Court’s Decriminalization of ...
RH Reality Check
The High Court also discussed the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in ...

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India's ruling against 'sodomy' laws is first step to equality
Amnesty International USA
... orientation and gender identity without fear or discrimination," said Madhu Malhotra, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Asia Pacific programme. ...

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India: Court Strikes Down ‘Sodomy’ Law
Reuters AlertNet
Human Rights Watch also urged India’s Lok Sabha (Parliament) to move quickly to scrap Section 377 nationwide, and to replace it with laws that would ...

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Steve Rothaus
MiamiHerald.com
"This long-awaited decision testifies to the reach of democracy and rights in India." Human Rights Watch urged India's government not to contest or appeal ...

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Tadias Magazine
Ethiopian American, Mehret Mandefro, One of 15 White House Fellows
Tadias Magazine
He formerly served as the Executive Director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic ...

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Whitehouse.gov (press release)
PRESIDENT OBAMA APPOINTS 2009-2010 CLASS OF WHITE HOUSE FELLOWS
Whitehouse.gov (press release)
He formerly served as the Executive Director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic ...

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Transparent As a Moonless Night: The Budget Process and Spending
Mindanao Examiner
In its 2008 Asia Pacific Human Development Report, the UNDP says many forms of corruption are hidden and get less media attention than they should. ...

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UN: Secretary-General Describes Promise in Fight Against HIV/AIDS ...
ISRIA
Gender equality and the full realization of human rights were essential principles in the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. ...

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General Assembly President Says Resources Needed to Meet HIV/AIDS ...
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland
GARY QUINLAN ( Australia) said that, in the Asia-Pacific region, which accrued some 1300 new HIV infections every day, most countries were well behind schedule to achieve universal access by 2010, and many more were unlikely to achieve the Millennium ...

LGBT South Asian conference to take place in New York
EDGE Boston
Engendered, a transnational arts and human rights organization that focuses on gender, sexuality, ritual and religion in South Asia, has organized the South ...

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Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with Special ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
CONCHITA PONCINI, of International Federation of University Women, in a joint statement with Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women's Association, ...

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India: 'Sodomy' Laws Perpetuate Colonial Prejudices
Human Rights Watch (press release)
In Asia and the Pacific: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, India, Kiribati, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Western Samoa. ...

Round One Pacific Islands HIV and STI Response Fund recipients ...
Trading Markets (press release), CA
Response Fund grants are for three-year projects and cover activities such as regional training on testing and counselling, advocacy for improved human rights legislation, HIV in the workplace, condom distribution and strengthening capacity of national ...