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Nature’s Call From A Garbage Heap!
Saturday, 7 April 2012, 12:16 pm | CNS
(CNS): Safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities are basic necessities of life and the likes of you and me perhaps have never faced the ignominy of trading our privacy for want of basic sanitary needs like proper toilets and clean drinking ... More >>
A Stealthy Killer on the Prowl
Friday, 30 December 2011, 12:47 pm | CNS
If it is not A or B it must be C: A Stealthy Killer on the Prowl More >>
Peace and Democracy at 8th Pak-India People’s Conference
Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 11:12 am | CNS
The 8th joint convention of India and Pakistan chapters of Pak-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) is scheduled to be held during 29-31 December 2011 in Allahabad, UP, India, said Mr Irfan Ahmad, senior Vice President of PIPFPD (UP ... More >>
AIDS epidemic at a critical juncture in Asia-Pacific region
Sunday, 28 August 2011, 10:21 am | CNS
(CNS): Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, and on the occasion of the 10th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (10th ICAAP), being held at Busan, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released a new report on the HIV epidemic ... More >>
Decriminalize MSM and transgender populations
Saturday, 27 August 2011, 11:33 am | CNS
(CNS): Policies that criminalize same-sex behaviour and punitive laws continue to impede access to existing healthcare services for those at heightened risk of HIV such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender populations. The 10th International ... More >>
Stigma blocks access to services for MSM and transgender
Saturday, 27 August 2011, 11:31 am | CNS
(CNS): Stigma within healthcare settings blocks access of men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender populations to existing services to an alarming level. "The Asia Pacific Coalition on Male sexual health (APCOM) has been looking at this issue ... More >>
Empowering Rural Women
Thursday, 24 March 2011, 3:36 pm | CNS
A Regional Women Leaders' Convention is being held on 24-25 March 2011, in Mau, UP, as part of the Empowering Rural Women (ERW) programme, which has been operating in 253 Gram Panchayats (village councils) of 10 districts of UP, since December 2007. ... More >>
A Toast To Hundred Years Old Struggle
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 5:00 pm | CNS
The 8th of March 2011 marks the centenary of the very first International Women's Day which was celebrated in 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, when more than one million women and men attended International Women's Day rallies campaigning ... More >>