Funding Shortage Hinders Vietnam HIV and AIDS Fight
Vietnam News - Hanoi, Vietnam, 9/30/2015
Medical experts are concerned that an outbreak of the HIV virus is likely to return to Vietnam any time due to a lack of funds. It is estimated that Vietnam will need at least VND7.4 trillion (US$329 million) for the programme for 2016-20 period but it will lack about 11 per cent of the capital. Because the HIV prevention programme will not be a national target programme, it will suffer a big reduction in budget allocation.
Saudi Arabia Insists UN Keeps LGBT Rights Out of Its Development Goals
The Independent - Cairo, Egypt, 9/29/2015
Saudi Arabia is insisting the UN removes gay rights from the organisation’s Global Goals, saying it is ‘counter to Islamic law’. The protest comes from the Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, who told the UN General Assembly that ‘mentioning sex in the text, to us, means exactly male and female. Mentioning family means consisting of a married man and woman,’ AP reported. The United Nations was criticised recently for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role, despite its record on human rights abuses and freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents.
NGO Opts for Crowd-funding to Run AIDS Projects
The Times of India - Nagpur, India, 9/28/2015
More than 150 NGOs working on LGBTQIA issues across the state have been suffering due to lack of funds from the Government agencies. They have approached officials from MSACS, National Health Mission, State Health Department, the District Administration and several local political leaders, all of whom agree that the funds must be made available soon and promise to take the matter up soon. City-based Sarathi Trust that runs a project focused on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community has decided to raise the money it needs through a crowd funding campaign.
Keep a Check on Placement Agencies, Nepal Embassy Told
The Hindu - New Delhi, India, 9/27/2015
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has asked the Nepal Embassy to keep a check on placement agencies as cases of human trafficking are on the rise since the devastating earthquake in Nepal. The Commission also has plans to strengthen laws against human trafficking cases. To prevent children of sex workers from getting into prostitution, the women’s body has asked for a rehabilitation and education policy for them.
Peng on Health, Education Mission
Shanghai Daily - Xinhua, China, 9/27/2015
‘Taking care of the health of women and children is the most important investment in mankind’s future’, said China’s first lady Peng Liyuan in New York on 26 September, 2015. As the World Health Organization’s goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV and AIDS, she was a guest at a meeting of the United Nations’ ‘Every Woman Every Child’ initiative.
Sex Workers to Learn About West Bengal’s Cooperative Initiative
The Hindu - Kolkata, India, 9/26/2015
What started with a small initiative by sex workers with 14 members has in 20 years got 20,000 members in its fold and emerged as a successful model for extending banking facilities to marginalised women having little or no access to these facilities. With Usha Multipurpose Cooperative, the cooperative bank owned and run by sex workers of Songachi in Kolkata completing 20 years, thousands of sex workers from other parts of India will gather in the city to learn the best practices of the cooperative.
Sex Workers to Learn About West Bengal’s Cooperative Initiative
The Hindu - Kolkata, India, 9/26/2015
What started with a small initiative by sex workers with 14 members has in 20 years got 20,000 members in its fold and emerged as a successful model for extending banking facilities to marginalised women having little or no access to these facilities. With Usha Multipurpose Cooperative, the cooperative bank owned and run by sex workers of Songachi in Kolkata completing 20 years, thousands of sex workers from other parts of India will gather in the city to learn the best practices of the cooperative.
Sex Education in Mumbai Civic Schools from Next Academic Year
The Indian Express - Mumbai, India, 9/25/2015
Starting 2016, civic schools in the city will start sexuality education for students of Class 9 as part of their curriculum. The BMC will conduct the course with the help of the Mumbai District AIDS Control Society (MDACS). The module will help create awareness among adolescents about HIV and AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. The module will also include issues related to menstruation, changes experienced during puberty and aspects related to family planning.
India Could Boost 2025 GDP by 60% by Promoting Gender Diversity at Work: McKinsey Report
Business Standard, India, 9/25/2015
India is clubbed among the lowest scorers in parameters such as gender equality in work and it would be the biggest beneficiary, potentially boost its 2015 gross domestic product (GDP) by 60 per cent (an estimated $2.9 trillion), if it were to use the full potential of women in its workforce, said a report by McKinsey Global Institute.
Hong Kong's Realistic Approach to Policing Sex Work
South China Morning Post - Hong Kong, China, 9/24/2015
In Hong Kong, the buying and selling of sex is not illegal, but brothel keeping, organising prostitution, living off the earnings of prostitution and soliciting in a public place all are. The police have focused more on human trafficking and the negative consequences of the sex trade, such as the ensnarement of underage girls, rather than on hounding individual sex workers, which is a sensible deployment of resources.
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