After being blind for years to the needs and rights of women, the United Nations is finally well on its way to create a "fully-resourced" women's agency. 

Stephen Lews visits Jamaica and talks about the dangers of homophobia and how it fuels AIDS in the Caribbean. In a radio interview, he discusses "the stupidity, the sadness, the tragedy" of vicious bigotry and the needless suffering it causes.

December 10, 2008 - Human rights lawyers in Zimbabwe have had their hands full with the past week’s abductions of prominent defenders like attorney Zacharia Nkomo and Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko, who were forcibly seized from their homes during early morning hours by security agents of President Robert Mugabe’s government... AIDS-Free World has urged the UN Security Council to call an emergency session to stop President Mugabe’s ZANU-PF supporters from waging what it calls a second campaign of rape and sexual torture designed to crush the political opposition. 

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