Archive for the ‘Society’ Category
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Note: Rather unusually, this post has a political content that I usually keep for myself or for friends and close relatives. Politics is too serious to be discussed on the Internet and a 600-word post can only gloss over events, beliefs and concepts that would need books on their own.
The ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
The BBC reports on South African Children as young as 15 shooting up with grounded HIV anti-retrovirals sometimes mixed with painkillers and marijuana.
"I couldn't believe it. I was shocked at first, these were school boys in their school uniforms," documentary-maker Tooli Nhlapo told the BBC World Service's Outlook programme.
"They ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Speaking at an international AIDS conference, Moscow's mayor Yury Luzhkov said that the authorities will continue to ban gay parades to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
"We have banned and will continue to forbid this propaganda by sexual minorities, as they could turn out to be one of the ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
This is a cross posting from Laura Agustín's blog, Border Thinking on Migration and Trafficking: Culture, Economy and Sex. It is worth circulating broadly in an age where everything is conflated and reduced to a black and white understdanting.
Briefly, sex workers at the Barn Funn Brothel have been forcibly "rescued ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
This piece was written in September 2006. The AIDS conference it mentionned was the one before that of 2008 where vulnerable groups where at last put under the spotlights. Names, places and minor details have been modified to protect people’s privacy.
Bedtime story
Wat, my neighbour has a new lodger, a 35-year ...
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