Getting To Zero On HIV And AIDS: Persistent Womens Rights Challenges
This week, the world marked World AIDS Day whose 2011 theme was "Getting to Zero." AWID explores some of the themes that have either come to the fore or persisted since the last World AIDS Day 2010, and which affect women's getting to zero.
Gbagbo faces charges of crimes against humanity-ICC
The ICC opened an investigation last month into killings, rapes and other abuses committed during a four-month conflict in the African nation
U.N. committee sanctions Congo militia chief
Ntabo Ntaberi Shek - commander-in-chief of the political wing of the Mai Mai Sheka armed group - is allegedly implicated in a mass rape case
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