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Detracting from a women’s rights approach to HIV and AIDS

For several years now it has been recognized that HIV and AIDS is a feminized phenomenon. Women’s rights activists have asserted that in order to address the pandemic, it is necessary for women’s rights to be central to interventions. Now it seems like the battle for a women’s rights centred approach could be over before it has barely even begun.

By Kathambi Kinoti

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Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore

Singapore has an estimated 160,000 migrant domestic workers – an overwhelming majority of them women. Singapore’s labour laws, however, still exclude domestic workers from key protections guaranteed to other workers, and as a result, exploitation is rife.

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Why Soldiers Rape

Culture of misogyny, illegal occupation, fuel sexual violence in military. By Helen Benedict.

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Latin America, Caribbean Embrace Sex Ed as HIV Prevention

For the Latin American and Caribbean region, the best outcome from the International Conference on AIDS being held in Mexico City this week may be what happened just prior to the conference.

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The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign

An update on United Nations reform and the civil society campaign to reform and strengthen UN gender architecture.

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