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Published on Mon, 2011-08-08 07:12
Sources: Hammarrberg's blog, Midlands Zone. The Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, has urged European countries to show more political desire to combat homophobia and transphobia. He also urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to remove "gender dysphoria" from the World Health Organization's list of mental disorders, as a way to reduce prejudices and stigmatization. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 10:21
Source: The Broker The European Union (EU) needs the ACP's backing to get support in international governance, and needs its raw materials and markets. But the EU is indecisive about continuing this special relationship, according to Mirjam van Reisen, Europe external policy expert. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:43
Source: Helsingin Sanomat Concerns about climate change and about the future of the planet were given the most weight by the readers of Helsingin Sanomat (HS), a Finnish newspaper, when they voted on what they considered to be the most unethical product in the world. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:39
Source: SIAWI (Secularism is a Women’s Issue) A coalition of NGOs protested against threats against women’s rights in Egypt, made under the pretext that alleged “human rights” were in fact a throwback from Suzan Mubarak, deposed president Hosni Mubarak’s wife, and that the country should get rid of everything related to the toppled regime. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:35
Source: The Star of Malaysia The World Trade Organisation (WTO) could not even agree last week on a small “package” of issues to benefit the poorest countries. This crisis in the WTO is a sign of a larger impasse in international economic cooperation, according to the lastest column written by Martin Khor, Executive Director of South Centre, for The Star, one of the leading newspapers in Malaysia. |
Published on Fri, 2011-08-05 07:25
Sources: Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The New York Times “One stubborn fact was hard to ignore” at the International AIDS Society's annual meeting in Rome last month: the syndrome “remains a metaphor for inequality,” wrote Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. His words are backed up by new studies on HIV that reveal the persistent gaps between poor and rich countries and between wealthier and marginalized communities in the United States. |
Published on Tue, 2011-08-02 07:27
Sources: UN News Centre, IPS report, UNDP. The empowering of young people is becoming a key issue in the speeches of many UN high officers as the International Year of Youth is coming to an end this month. All of them agree that there is much to be done to include young men and women in the development and democratisation processes. |
Published on Mon, 2011-08-01 08:05
Source: CELS. The Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), the focal point of Social Watch in Argentina, has been awarded the Gruber Foundation Prize for Justice. This annual award has been in existence for ten years; it is given to people and organizations in the human rights field in all parts of the world. |
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Published on Fri, 2011-07-29 09:32
Source: The Star. The outcome of the 1992 Earth Summit was large in ambition but poor in implementation. With the world in even larger crisis, the search is on for stronger institutions, as a meeting in Solo last week revealed, wrote Martin Khor in his most recent column for The Star, one of the leading Malaysian newspapers. |
Published on Fri, 2011-07-29 09:29
Source: Pew Research Center. Wealth gaps between ethnic communities have risen to record highs in the United States. The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black ones and 18 times that of Hispanic families, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. |
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