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Ex-workers Ask HLL to Accept Liability for Mercury Deaths

...duced damage. Many in the crowd, including civil rights and environmental activists, had also worked with Natarajan in the factory on the outskirts of this resort town before it was shut down by the government in March 2001. A large number of workers were exposed to mercury because of unsafe working co...

Forcible Detention and Isolation Needed for XDR-TB Patients, warn Experts

It’s a tough call between human rights and a medical problem of utmost urgency but resear...e interests of public health must prevail over the rights of the individual." The World Health Organization has called for the world to prioritise XDR-TB on ...

China Takes a Progressive Step Towards AIDS Prevention

...AIDS Prevention and Control seeks to safeguard the rights of marriage, employment, medical care and education of the HIV affected. Further, the program resolves to eliminate bias against people with HIV/AIDS in the workplace. Richard Howard, an ILO official and the program's chief technical adviser, sai...

Violence Against Women Fueling Spread of HIV Worldwide

...ased Womyn's Agenda for Change, which promotes the rights of women and female sex workers. "A sex worker negotiates with one man," Sokunthy said, adding, "When she gets to the venue she finds more than one man, and they all want to have sex with her. When she refuses, she is beaten or raped." In addit...

On the 'Fast Buck' Trail: Kidneys on Sale

...dney trafficking, and also to probe into the human rights issues associated with it. They will also be engaged in identifying ‘hot spots’, besides defining the line between an ethical transplant and an exploitative one. These activists also hope to reform national and international laws governing organ ...

Indonesia Has Stopped Sharing Vital Bird Flu Data

...c illness and to protect its intellectual property rights ahead of a planned vaccine tie-up with Baxter Inte...anted to keep control of the intellectual property rights of the deadly strain of the virus. However, he declined to give further details. Baxter confirme...

Smartcard Legislation Fails The Privacy Test - AMA

... a Bill that respects and protects the privacy and rights of all Australians.” Dr Haikerwal said the Government is also yet to explain why the Bill raises the age of automatic access to the Card to persons aged 18 years and over, while the current Medicare Card is automatically available to people aged 1...

Swedish Biotech Licenses HIV Drug to China for Development

...he China region. Medivir will retain the worldwide rights to the product. Guangdong Lantai Viewland Pharm...rst time that a Chinese company has won the global rights to develop an HIV product. Prof. Oberg said that Medivir will retain the right to commercialise or l...

China Permits Anti-AIDS Campaigner to Accept US Award

...chose to honour Gao for her work to "promote legal rights among women in China" and had invited her to a March ceremony in Washington. However, after refusing to comply with requests from health officials to decline the invitation, Gao was detained at home by provincial authorities. The incident prompte...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

Data exclusivity—the granting of exclusive rights to commercial companies over clinical and preclinical trial data—could jeopardize efforts to create generic versions of// life-saving medicines and harm public health, says Karin Timmermans of the World Health Organization (WHO) in an Essay in PLoS M...

Malaria Network Gets 49bn from Bill Gates

...ng infants, young children and pregnant women. The rights and well-being of these research participants must be protected,` he said. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Alberta's Mental Health Act Welcomed

...n ice as there is a possibility of breaching human rights here. Laurie Blakeman, the Liberal health critic felt that the government should not use this legislation to abandon their social responsibility towards mentally ill patients. He also added that the legislation has not considered the families of su...

All Forms of Ill Treatment Cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-PTSD

...nformation in the article. "After reports of human rights abuses by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan, a U.S. Defense Department working group report on detainee interrogations and a U.S. Justice Department memorandum on U.S. torture policy argued for a fairly narrow definition of to...

Diminishing Differences and Empowering Eves

...e struggle gained momentum, and thus the quest for rights began to be noticed and rewarded. Education has, no doubt, empowered women in a manner unthinkable in the past. Over the years, women have proved their prowess, and have shown that the sky is their limit. They have traveled to the earth’s horizons ...

India to Market Female Condoms

...u told IANS. 'We are looking at the reproductive rights of women directly. Most women do not have this right to choose. This is a HIV-AIDS prevention tool under a woman's control,' she said. 'For the first time, a woman will have a preventive tool in her own hand.' 'We will monitor and make public our ...

Private Clinics on Public Land Must Treat Poor Free: Court

...t obligations. The hospitals could not claim their rights over the land without conceding to their obligations," said the bench justifying the claim of the government to enforce the clause in lease deeds. The court formed a committee comprising Director General of Health Services (DGHS), advocate Ashok Ag...

Now Scientists Create a Sheep That's 15% Human

... real threat, as we have seen with HIV.' Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: 'Transplanting the cells into fetal sheep a...

Toolkit Released To Employers Of Expecting Mothers

...f said// they thought they were aware of their own rights and responsibilities. The survey also revealed t...e fail to tackle the knowledge gap surrounding the rights of pregnant women and new parents at work we run the risk of seeing these women drop out of the work...

Animal Lovers Protest Brutal Dog Killings

...dogs in Bangalore has led to an uproar with animal rights activists saying there are more humane ways to deal with the problem. On Saturday the animal lovers took top the streets and s demanded prosecution of the municipal corporation officers responsible for the alleged brutal killing of stray dogs in Ka...

“A Hen Is Only An Egg's Way Of Making Another Egg

...world. With Easter just round the corner an animal rights group in Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, are to launch...itable organization, is dedicated to defending the rights of all animals. It maintains that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for enter...

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