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Media Giant Advances on Taiwan
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Dic 02 (IPS) - Taiwan civic reform, journalist and labour organisations have mobilised against the acquisition of the large Next Media (Taiwan) group by tycoons linked with China. They say this threatens Taiwan's news freedom and even the survival of its democratic political system.
Doha Faces an Indonesian Test
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA, Dic 02 (IPS) - To most people, holes in the ozone layer or the melting of polar ice caps can sound like distant catastrophes. "But let's talk about concrete examples," says an Indonesian director whose documentary film captures the lives of local farmers affected by a dramatically changing environment.
Opportunity Missed for Nuclear-Free Middle East
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Dic 02 (IPS) - After the cancellation of an international conference to create a nuclear-free Middle East, leading experts have warned that an important opportunity to create stability in the region has been squandered.
Q&A: Education Is Where HIV Care Begins
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 02 (IPS) - When Shorai Chitongo founded Ray of Hope, a support group for female survivors of domestic violence in 2005, she discovered that three-quarters of the survivors in the group were HIV-positive.
Shorai Chitongo, founder of Ray of Hope, a support group for survivors of domestic violence, and a national leader of the Groots Zimbabwe Home-Based Care Alliance. Photo courtesy of Ms. Chitongo There’s Life in the AIDS Ribbon
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Dic 01 (IPS) - Thirty-year old Swapna Raj of Hyderabad is a woman in a hurry: in time for the International AIDS day Swapna, a HIV positive person on anti-retroviral therapy (ART), has received a contract from the state government to deliver 5,000 red ribbons.
Q&A: Combating Gay Stigma Critical in Fight Against AIDS
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 01 (IPS) - As the international community comes together on Dec. 1 to celebrate World AIDS Day, a new report from UNAIDS reveals that while significant progress has been made in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS, stigmatisation, violence and discrimination against members of the gay community continue relentlessly.
Q&A: How Innovative Funding Combats HIV/AIDS
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 01 (IPS) - On World AIDS Day, the fact that the number of children newly infected with HIV continues to decline is welcome news to UNITAID, the International Drug Purchase Facility hosted by the World Health Organisation. But UNITAID is also well aware of how much more remains to be done for children already living with the disease.
DRC - Wishing the Rebels Would Remain
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Dic 01 (IPS) - Lined up along a dirt path that meanders its way up into the lush war-torn mountains surrounding the small town of Sake, in eastern Congo, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, hundreds of young rebel soldiers sat on the road banks in the baking sun.
Trawlers Glide Past International Fishing Laws
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Dic 01 (IPS) - Somali pirates on the southwest Indian Ocean have become one of the biggest security risks for commercial maritime shipping over the last several years. But even as piracy gave rise to international furore, an unlikely benefactor emerged: bluefin tuna stocks in the Indian Ocean.
There’s Life in the AIDS Ribbon
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Dic 01 (IPS) - Thirty-year old Swapna Raj of Hyderabad is a woman in a hurry: in time for the International AIDS day Swapna, a HIV positive person on anti-retroviral therapy (ART), has received a contract from the state government to deliver 5,000 red ribbons.
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