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Aborigines Century Behind the Health of Colonizers, WHO Report

...t colonisation stripped Aboriginal people of their rights is needed before they can move forward. The paper, to be presented in Geneva in June, includes life expectancy as the strongest indicator of poor health, with Aborigines almost 20 years behind other Australians. There was also greater levels of i...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...ntries differently and deny them their fundamental rights only because they are foreign nationals?" asked Saha who has filed the highest medical compensation case in the country against Kolkata's AMRI Hospital and three doctors for causing his wife Anuradha's death due to alleged wrongful treatment. The ...

Study Examines the Pathologization of Guantanamo Suicides

...etention,” argues Howell, noting that “while human rights organizations have done excellent work in resisting these detentions, when such groups represented the detainees as suicidal depressive victims, they did little to dispel the construction of the detainees (or of Islam in general) as pathological and ...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...-in spite of US worries over intellectual property rights in the kingdom. "We still defend what we have do...rotection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in Thailand." The United States criticized Thailand on Monday for steps it took to override patent...

Naked Activists March Against Burberry Use of Fur in Fashion

Animal rights activists strutted naked through Tokyo's glitzy Gi...panied by two nude Japanese women. The US-based rights group says rabbits and other animals used in Burberry goods live miserably in confinement before bei...

New Drug for Rheumatoid Arthritis Looks Promising.

....TO), which is controlled by Roche. Roche owns the rights to market Actemra outside Japan. Two other drugs rituximab (Rituxan), abatacept (Orencia) are already there to reduce signs and symptoms of RA, improve physical function and health status, and slow joint damage progression. Sufferers of rheumatoid...

Bill on HIV/AIDS Delayed Further

...so proposes protection of inheritance and property rights and recognises community-based alternatives to institutionalisation for vulnerable and affected children. ``Africa failed to address the problem of HIV infected children and now everyone there is paying for it. We can't take that risk,'' says Kezevin...

Catholics Should Halt Amnesty Support Over Abortion Issue: Vatican

...lled on all Catholics to stop supporting the human rights group, accusing it of promoting abortion. "No more Catholic financing of Amnesty International after the organisation's pro-abortion about-turn," said a statement from the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The council's president...

Taiwan Researchers Claim Cancer Therapy Alternative

...erapy drug. Academia Sinica has applied for patent rights here and abroad for the special compounds....

Fangs Taken Out of Canadas Bill 29

..., its high court proved that collective bargaining rights are indeed protected by the constitution. The ...nt to talk about undoing the damage, restoring our rights and future legislation, according to Darcy. As of now, Health minister George Abbott has not yet be...

Heather Mills Gives Cooker Demo on Veg Recipes

... A source said that leaflets featuring the animal rights activist have been sent out, and that the show will describe how 'vegan cooking' will make non-vegetarians beg for more vegetarian food. The source added that Mills' show will also have a talk on being a vegan. "Heather is on the front cover of a l...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...al financing institution, which will also have the rights to intellectual property. The technologies so developed may then be given to developing countries at cost, while the rich nations can access them on a commercial basis, the paper says, adding the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Cl...

Now a Drug to Stop the Feeling of Hunger

...ine RX Ltd. of Jerusalem has purchased development rights from Yissum, the Hebrew University's technology transfer company, and is currently working towards creating a commercial anti-obesity drug. The findings of the study were presented during the 70th meeting of the Hebrew University Board of Governor...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...ble," said Frank van Dalen, the president of a gay rights group called COC. He stressed that the use of GHB (gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid) known on the street by such nicknames as "easy lay", "gay home boy" and "liquid ecstasy" also posed a danger in heterosexual circles. Henk Krol, the editor of the homosex...

Zambia Trying Hard to Tackle Crisis in Mental Health Care

...valids. The revised Act will define both the legal rights and treatment procedures of mental patients. At pr...etention orders pertain to the withdrawal of human rights of someone for 14 days. The Government is doing away with this procedure. If there has to be any det...

Another Statewide Organization Joins the Fight Against Assisted Suicide

...join the majority of state and national disability rights organizations already opposing assisted suicide. CAIC is an advocacy group that works on behalf of groups with developmental and other disabilities and their families. Just as a new national AP/Ipsis poll was released indicating that Americans are...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...springs. Interestingly while Nestl maintains the rights to the water, the legal responsibility for the springs remains with the town. "This would leave the people of McCloud holding the legal bag for any environmental violations resulting from Nestl's operations and any resulting lawsuits," the Watershed ...

WHO, UNAIDS Issue New Guidance on HIV Testing and Counseling

...and counseling is both a public health and a human rights imperative," said WHO HIV/AIDS Director Dr Kevin D...ess to services and, at the same time, protect the rights of individuals," he added. Until recently, the primary model for providing HIV testing and counsel...

WHO Condemns Tobacco Industry for Misleading Public

...siness or that smoking bans infringe on a smoker's rights and freedom of choice," the WHO said. It noted that not a single study has proved that smoking bans result in negative results for the economy. Omi said that to mark this year's World No Tobacco Day, the WHO is honouring individuals and organizat...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

... One of the main demands of the campaign for the rights of sexual minorities in India has been the repeal ... the AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA), a human rights activist group, filed a public interest petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the constitutio...

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