Posted on October 3, 2008 by Elizabeth
The United States Department of Homeland Security announced that it was implementing rules that would ease the ban on entry of HIV-positive visitors into the United States.
This regulation significantly improves the opportunities for individuals seeking to visit the U.S. who were previously inadmissible because of an HIV infection,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
Under the [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Jackie T.
Underage girls belonging to a cult in Texas, USA, are forced to marry older men in ’spiritual marriages’ and suffer forms of child abuse, reports the Guardian UK and Time Magazine.
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Jackie T.
Somaly Mam is a young Camboian woman with a mission—to rescue girls and end child sex slavery. Somaly’s heroic efforts, through her foundation, are inspired by her own horrific childhood, which she recently documented in her autobiography.
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Jackie T.
A girl as young as 6 years old is dedicated to an Indian Goddess. But what lies ahead for this girl- this beautiful Devadasi- is a life of begging, child sexual exploitation and the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Can law be a useful tool to stop this ancient tradition that is fuelling a crisis of disease, poverty and gross violations of [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Jackie T.
The story below, first published in the Washington Post, gives an account of 14 year old Aisha Camara who is forced to wed a man old enough to be her grandfather. Sadly, the practice of child marriages is not unique to Ivory Coast or Sub-Saharan Afica; all across the world girls are being forced to lose their childhood and their rights in [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2008 by Elizabeth
India implemented a ban on smoking that came into effect October 2, 2008. India’s legislation to outlaw smoking in public was first passed in 2003, to take effect in 2004. It took four years, however, to work out the guidelines to be implemented.
Per Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss:
From 2 October India is going to go smoke-free [...]
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