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Activism
U.N. says Russian efforts on human rights fall short

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said that attempts by President Dmitry Medvedev to improve civil society in Russia had been unsuccessful, and urged the country to improve its rights record.

Published
18 February 2011
From
Reuters
Immigration
A major blow to the Dublin System: Returning asylum seekers to Greece violates the European Convention on Human Rights

"This judgment is a major blow to the Dublin system. The assumption that all EU Member States respect fundamental rights and that it is therefore safe to automatically transfer asylum seekers between EU countries no longer stands."

Published
24 January 2011
From
European Council on Refugees and Exiles
Money, benefits and housing
UK: Disability benefit cuts 'could breach human rights law'

"The human rights act says individuals have a right to family life, have a right to a quality of life, the whole purpose of the DLA is to put them on an equal playing field with everyone else. Any proposal that fails to appreciate those fundamental rights could find it is an infringement of the law."

Published
10 January 2011
From
BBC
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Arbitrary arrests of gay men in China violate human rights, undermine effective HIV prevention and treatment

The Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) stands with the China HIV/AIDS CBO Network in strongly condemning the arbitrary arrest and mistreatment of more than 80 gay men at a popular Beijing park on Sunday night.

Published
30 September 2010
From
Global Forum on MSM & HIV
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Finding our global voice

Jack Beck of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) reviews what has now become a regular event preceding the biennial International AIDS Conferences – the

Published
06 September 2010
From
HIV treatment update
Human rights
Ugandan study shows why human rights are central to HIV prevention with African men who have sex with men

In Kampala, Uganda, men who have sex with men who have suffered homophobic violence or abuse are five times more likely to be HIV-positive than other men,

Published
22 July 2010
By
Roger Pebody
Human rights
Harm reduction and human rights

Harm reduction for injecting drug users, including clean needles and syringes and opiate substitution therapy, is extremely limited in some regions of the world. Harm reduction

Published
28 May 2010
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Travel
Parliamentarians, UNAIDS, call for removal of HIV travel bans

Parliamentarians have joined with UNAIDS to call for the removal of travel restrictions for people with HIV. Governments were urged to action by parliamentarians from

Published
29 March 2010
By
Michael Carter
Iran releases jailed HIV/AIDS doctor, family says

Arash Alaei, a pioneering HIV and AIDS doctor, has been released from an Iranian prison, his family said Sunday.

Published
01 January 1970
From
CNN
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