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Gender Inequalities And HIV

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Mon, 01/12/2008 - 12:39
Publisher: 
World Health Organisation (WHO)
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http://www.who.int/
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According to the latest (2008) WHO and UNAIDS global estimates, women comprise 50% of people living with HIV.

In sub-Saharan Africa, women constitute 60% of people living with HIV. In other regions, men having sex with men (MSM), injecting drug users (IDU), sex workers and their clients are among those most-at-risk for HIV, but the proportion of women living with HIV has been increasing in the last 10 years
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Forum Focuses on Same-Sex Marriage and Catholicism

Submitted by Keba.sebetoane on Thu, 27/11/2008 - 14:24
Publisher: 
Windy City Times
Author: 
Yasmin Nair
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
The passage of Proposition 8 in California came about because of efforts by Christian fundamentalists and the Mormon Church. As a result, there has been a great deal of discussion about the relationship between the gay and lesbian community and religion. Most accounts tend to separate the two; it's often forgotten that a significant number of gays and lesbians are also people of faith. The Catholic Church faces a great deal of controversy in the wake of Pope Benedict's stated opposition to homosexuality and his declaration that same-sex marriages are “pseudo-matrimony.” On Nov. 11, The New Ways Ministry organized “An Evening of Dialogue: Same-Sex Marriage and Catholicism.” Held at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congreation in Evanston, the event examined the theological underpinnings behind the Church's doctrines, and the disparity between those and the lived experiences and lives of laypersons.
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Kenya Farmers Reap Profits Sown by Joined Hands

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Tue, 25/11/2008 - 12:44
Publisher: 
Women's News
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http://www.womensenews.org/
Author: 
Zoe Alsop
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 

Efforts to improve agriculture in Kenya often miss the mark by targeting men instead of women. One woman spent 20 years organizing female farmers to share investments and training. Now men are joining too, and the women's work is paying off.
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Prostitution: To Legalize Or Not

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 15:31
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State Government

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http://blogs.state.gov/
Author: 
Mark Lagon
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
This week I participated in a conference "Overlaps of Prostitution, Migration, and Human Trafficking" in Berne, Switzerland which brought together European government experts from Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Spain to discuss a very hot topic: the relationship between prostitution and human trafficking.

The United States Government believes that prostitution fuels sex trafficking based on solid empirical evidence. It estimates that approximately 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked each year across international borders. (This is not to mention millions more who are trafficking victims who never cross borders.) Two-thirds of these victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation, making trafficking for prostitution the single biggest category of transnational human trafficking.
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Social Networking Inspires Innovations

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 19/11/2008 - 10:40
Publisher: 
Knox Villebiz.com
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http://www.knoxnews.com/
Author: 
Larisa Brass
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Welcome to the world of social networking, a phenomenon that is increasingly driving creation and deployment of applications oriented around whole new universes of communication. Facebook, MySpace, instant messaging and a new generation of Internet-enabled devices is drawing the younger set to connect in new ways and attracting businesses to a new way of reaching this demographic.
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Counting the Cost of Gender Violence, HIV/Aids On Economic Development

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Fri, 07/11/2008 - 09:48
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All Africa.com

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http://allafrica.com/
Author: 
Vivian Onyebukwa
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
 A workshop on gender violence and HIV/AIDS organised by Gender and Child's Right Initiative (GCRI), a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) dedicated to uplifting the status of women and young persons, has ended in Lagos.

The workshop took place at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Victoria Island, Lagos, in conjunction with Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international NGO that manages Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation project on African Women. The workshop, tagged Engaging Business and Corporate Organisations in Health and Social Issues held under the distinguished chairmanship of Professor Osita Eze, Director General, Nigeria Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos. The objective of the project was to advocate for change in public policy while sensitising corporate organisations on gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. It was also to build strong networks of business and corporate organisations to lend their voices to advocacy work in this area. The workshop attracted several corporate organisations which include MTN, NGOs, Government representatives and Journalists.

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New Study Finds Oral and Anal Sex Common Among Sexually Active Teens

Submitted by Keba.sebetoane on Thu, 06/11/2008 - 12:36
Publisher: 
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United Sates
Publisher / Organization Main page URL: 
http://www.siecus.org
Author: 
Laura Duberstein Lindberg, Rachel Jones, and John S. Santelli
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Although non-coital sexual acts-such as oral and anal sex-are common, little research has systematically studied these behaviors among adolescents. Anecdotal evidence, however, has led to a concern that today's teens are engaging in oral and anal intercourse more than teenagers in the past, that they are responding to increasing pressures to remain abstinent by engaging in oral and anal intercourse as a way to stay "technical virgins," and that they view oral and anal sex as less risky than "real" sex. A new study from researchers at the Guttmacher Institute seeks to determine what kinds of factors are associated with engaging in oral and anal sex and if teens do indeed substitute oral and anal sex for vaginal intercourse. 
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Help For Immigrant Victims Of Domestic Violence

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 06/11/2008 - 11:16
Publisher: 

Lancashire Evening Post - Lep.co.uk

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http://www.lep.co.uk/
Published Date: 
2008
Abstract: 
Preston Women's Refuge has won a grant which will allow it to help female immigrants trapped in violent marriages.
The refuge is already supporting two such women and has had 30 phone calls from other immigrants in just four weeks.

The free and confidential service, offered in English, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu, is thought to be the first service of its kind offered by a Women's Aid organisation.
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Delay Criticised As Rape Crisis Helpline Highlighted

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Thu, 06/11/2008 - 10:28
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Irish Times.com

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http://www.irishtimes.com/
Author: 
Kitty Holland
Published Date: 
2008
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FRUSTRATION AT "delay after delay" in the opening of two new sexual assault treatment units in the west and midlands was expressed yesterday by the chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.

Speaking at the unveiling of a new campaign to raise awareness of the centre's helpline, Ellen O'Malley-Dunlop said €2.4 million had been made available in budget 2006 to update existing units in Dublin, Letterkenny, Waterford and Cork and to open two new units in Mullingar and Galway.

Currently the Letterkenny unit was closed and the Mullingar and Galway units had not come on stream

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Indonesia Passes Anti-porn Bill

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Wed, 05/11/2008 - 15:32
Publisher: 
BBC News
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Published Date: 
2008
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Indonesia's parliament has passed an anti-pornography law despite furious opposition to it.

Islamic parties said the law was needed to protect women and children against exploitation and to curb increasing immorality in Indonesian society.

The law would ban images, gestures or talk deemed to be pornographic.

Artists, women's groups and non-Muslim minorities said they could be victimised under the law and that traditional practices could be banned.

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