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Promoting Circumcision to Prevent HIV is Misguided and Will Backfire: ICGI

...s, from increasing infections and deaths, to human rights violations, and creating a false sense of immunity...penile sensitivity, not only raising serious human rights concerns but also a genuine concern that circumcised men, with one-fourth the penile sensitivity as ...

Indian Court Refers Novartis Plea for Patent on Anti-cancer Drug to a Separate Board

...ontravenes the trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) and also Article 14 of the Indian Constitu...interprets the trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) treaty. It prohibits patents for a new form of a known substance unless that new form has co...

New York City Plans to Promote Circumcision

...t has started asking some community groups and gay rights organizations to discuss circumcision with their members, and has asked the Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs city hospitals and clinics, to perform the procedure at no charge for men without health insurance. Dr.Freiden felt that even 1...

Canadian University Students Vote Against Coca-Cola

...and loyalty to Coca-Cola and standing up for human rights and the environment in India and Colombia," said Becky Wallace of the central student association at the University of Guelph. Recently, serious allegations were made in India against the beverage giant that it uses pesticides in its popular drinks...

After the King’s Crown, Maoist Want Miss Nepal’s Cron

...r 18 other finalists as well as scores of Maoists, rights activists and feminists, who kept up stiff resistance outside the pageant venue, trying to stop it. "I respect the opinion of all the women who are protesting against the pageant," Chand said after lifting the title Saturday, with a smile that howe...

Law Emerging in US for Generic Versions of Biotech Medicine

... generic drug industry while protecting the patent rights of brand-name drug makers — a crucial incentive for research on new drugs. It is also said that it would take several years after any new bill is passed for the FDA to issue regulations. Then, because of safety concerns, the agency could also requi...

Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

...se of natural resources and reaffirm the sovereign rights of the state over its own biological resources and also that natural resources are used in a way that benefits present and future generations. The key drivers promoting intergenerational equity are the protocol's precautionary approach i.e., take p...

Magic of Motherhood Through Egg Donation

???'Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.' ????……...ng the genetic parent, the donor has no parental rights or responsibilities towards the offsprings generated from her donated eggs. Perhaps, donating eggs...

Ever-Controversial Mental Health Act To Be Decided Upon

...g the right balance between safeguarding patients’ rights as well as protection of the general public. She has urged for votes for the bill, stating that it will serve to bring about indispensable community care, in the treatment of mental patients. As the bill goes to the House of Commons, its critics...

Virginia Tech. Shooter -Human Rights or Innocent Lives

...d to do the balancing act between individual human rights and the rights of the community-for a safe environment? According to the National Survey of Counseling Center Dir...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...rug firms themselves charged their First Amendment rights were under attack. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United States Bill of Rights. It prohibits the federal legislature from making laws that prohibit free exercise of religion or infringe on the freedom of sp...

Aborted Babies Survive, a British Study Says

...e Choice President, declared, "Increasingly, human rights advocacy groups the world over are realizing that ...cy through abortion, are a vital part of the human rights canon." GPL/L...

Mentally Ill Patients - Victims Of Assault By Their Caregivers

... involvement in the second incident. Says human rights lawyer Michael Bott: “ I think that it's offensive to justice and it's treating these people as second rate citizens.” The unit houses up to a dozen intellectually disabled people who have been before the courts. They are said to pose a danger to t...

Electronic Tagging - for the Elderly Now!

...omplex needs. Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil rights group Liberty, warned against "gimmicks" which appear to offer "cheap and quick fixes."/M...

NRI Doctor Protests Patient's Death in Kolkata Hospital

...ndia's largest patients' body fighting for medical rights spearheaded by Ohio-based NRI Kunal Saha, has sent a memorandum to both the office of the West Bengal Health Minister Surya Kanta Mishra and the WBHRC Chairperson Shyamal Sen condemning the action of the hospital authority. PBT said the "dreadful a...

High Demand for the Cancer Vaccine

...e not yet adopted it saying it wears down parent’s rights and encourages promiscuity. Many have even raised safety concerns regarding the vaccine. The state's vaccine program collects federal and state funds with assistance from the state's commercial insurers to buy vaccines in volume. Those discounted v...

Laws on Mentally Ill Endangers Public Life

...s own life. Long standing laws regarding patient’s rights makes it difficult to enforce treatment by the fam...t of the patient is seen as violation of the civil rights of the patient. But the authority fails to see that upholding the patient’s rights is in a way denyi...

Legalization of Abortion in Mexico City Raises Heckles

...arcia, 24, who rode a flatbed truck in an abortion rights caravan through downtown Mexico City on Monday. Th...oductive Rights, the legal arm of the reproductive rights movement globally, applauded the Mexico City law as 'historic.' Decriminalizing abortion is a histor...

Priority Needs to Be Given to Maternal Health in Afghanistan

...support women and girls so they can exercise their rights to education, to health, to decent work, to live free from violence, coercion and discrimination, and to participate fully in public life,' she added. The UNFPA is working with the Ministry of Women's Affairs and other institutions in Afghanistan ...

New York Governor to Introduce Bill to Strengthen Abortion Rights

...w York State will continue to be a beacon of civil rights and protection of women’s rights.” New York’s ab...ered out of date. In the circumstances, abortion rights advocates hailed the proposed legislation as a critical step, but it is also one whose purpose could...

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