International AIDS Conference that it had eliminated immigration regulations that discriminated against people living with HIV and prevented them from entering, living, and working in the country. But that announcement, celebrated at the meeting of more than 20,000 scientists, presidents, business leaders and grass-roots activists from around the globe, hardly tells the full ...
In Myanmar the Underground Trade in Boy Soldiers Continues
Myanmar , and have interviewed boys who were only 11 when they were forced to join the army. Initially, Myanmar's government flatly denied any use of children by its army, despite evidence that children were systematically recruited in large numbers. More recently, the authorities have not only acknowledged the problem, but signed a formal UN agreement to release all children from the ...
Protect Workers With Family Leave
I have access to affordable contraception. Millions aren't so lucky Family planning services require real political commitment to upholding women's rights, not just ...
Camerons Kazakhstan Visit ? A Human Rights Opportunity
It is precisely because Kazakhstan stands out in the region for its energy and trade potential that the United Kingdom should take an approach firmly rooted in human rights in framing the relationship between these two countries as they grow ...
Detaining Migrant Children A Regional Problem
"My children asked and asked, ?When can we go outside?? but we could not answer," Safia A., an Afghan refugee, told me. "We are responsible parents, but we have no answers for them." Safia was speaking of the year when the Indonesian government detained her, her husband, and their three daughters, then 10, 6, and 4, in an immigration facility in Pekanbaru, Riau. ...
Coming home to Ireland a beautiful ruin
This is the land I once walked across, from Dublin to Galway, in a nine-day rainstorm. This is the land where, as a child from the uncomplicated suburbs, I began to recognize the heft of violence. This is a land where light plays with shadow, a land of saints, scholars, schizophrenics. Ireland is built on the wounds and the mercies of the past. Everywhere we are is everywhere we have once been. ...
California catch the next big energy wave
Less than a month later, Britain inaugurated an offshore wind farm capable of powering half a million homes. Additional "blue" energy sources, including wave- and tidal-power generators and "ocean thermal energy conversion," or OTEC, are being developed in Maine, Oregon, Scotland and China, but not in any significant way in California. Even Google, based in California, is ...
John XXIII and John Paul II Righteous popes
Pope John Paul II prays with Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Kiev, in front of the Babi Yar memorial in homage of the 100,000 Ukrainian Jews and others who were lined up and shot in a ravine between 1941 and 1943. The pope called the massacre "one of the most violent crimes" of the 20th ...
Leveling the field for human egg donors
Four California female Democratic legislators have co-sponsored a bill that would allow women to sell their eggs for research, just as men can sell their sperm. Above: A technician counts human ...
Solitary ? and anger ? in Californias prisons
If the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation was as serious about reforming its use of indefinite solitary confinement as it says it is, nearly 30,000 inmates wouldn't have started on a hunger strike last week, with many thousands still refusing ...
I have access to affordable contraception. Millions arent so lucky
Enlarge Pregnant teenagers queue for a free pre-natal check-up during a medical mission for teenage pregnancy conducted by the aid agency United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) in the slum community of Vitas in Tondo, Manila August 31, 2012. Pitting himself against the teachings of the country's powerful Catholic church, Philippine President Benigno Aquino, a Catholic like 80 percent of ...
A Memoir About Finding Ones Place In The Natural World
is just the right sort of read for those who usually take in non-fiction with a grim reluctance, as if it were cod liver oil. I was drawn by its promise of a memoir structured around five "incidents of arresting strangeness" in the author's life. I was not disappointed. Norman is disarmingly ...
Brothers Lost On Deployment Sister Mourns Soul Mates
Monica Velez and her two brothers, Freddy (left) and Andrew, in 1996. Freddy died in Iraq in 2004, and Andrew died in Afghanistan in ...
Retire The Phrase This Wouldnt Be A Scandal In Europe
Reporters swarm around former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as he attempts to collect signatures for his run for New York City comptroller. I hope we've heard the last of people saying, "This would never be a scandal in Europe." They usually mean "sex scandal," and by now I think Americans are entitled to boast that we've become as blase about politicians ...
Letters Support our women
A recent study finds that women who earn more than their potential spouse are more likely to have negative economic or family outcomes. But attitudes may be changing among young people toward supporting dual-career ...
Letters Real estate bubble
Mark Weisbrot asserts that it was not government that got us into our economic difficulties, but the private sector ("Can free enterprise be the key to boost the economy?" July 7). He cites the real estate bubble as the foundation of the ...
Good enough to Tweet
And for those of us in Massachusetts who actually have to pay for our cellphones, there?s some good news.You know how when you get a new phone and, of course, sign up for a long term contract with the wireless company of your choice, they - out of the goodness of their business-generating hearts - deeply discount the price of the phone. On a good day that $400 phone may cost, say, $150 ...
I am a Lymphoedema Sister
Contributed by : Carol Gould I thought I would re-publish this article from a year ago as local UK elections loom on 2 May. The present hysteria surrounding the rise and rise of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, fascinates me as an American because the Tea Party rose from disatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans. The Tea Party now has six US senators and helped shift ...
Week In Politics Napolitano Resignation Immigration Reform
Copyright ? 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And for more of the week's politics, our regular Friday commentators are here: columnists E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of the New York Times. Good to see you guys. E.J. DIONNE: Good to be ...
My view UCAIR should be in support of the Shared Solution and not the West Davis Corridor
In response to our air quality dilemma, our governor created the Utah Clean Air Partnership (UCAIR) in 2012. It is UCAIR's mission to come up with solutions to our air quality ...
The art of war exemplified
"Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart (5 May 1880 - 5 June 1963), was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He fought in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn?t amputate them. He ...
Editorial Robinson and Kasner new voices for Bellevue City Council
THE Bellevue City Council needs a fresh infusion of new voices and vision for a growing, changing community. Bellevue is more than its downtown and a gilded legacy as a prosperous suburb. The city is an economic powerhouse in its own right. It is a city of neighborhoods and ethnic diversity that need and deserve more attention. In that spirit, two challengers are endorsed in the August primary ...
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