This week at TrustMedia (06/10/2011)
The week's news from the TrustMedia team.
Enticing Africa's youth to agriculture
If Africa's youth don't see a future in agriculture, who is going to produce the continent's food?
Proposed HIV And AIDS Legislation Is A Setback To The Fight Against The Pandemic In Uganda
The HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, which criminalizes the transmission of HIV and AIDS in cases where a person is aware that they are HIV positive, was tabled in Uganda's Parliament in 2010. The Bill has a number of adverse human and women's rights implications.
Slum dwellers should be a priority for water and sanitation investment
Investment in water and sanitation in the rapidly urbanising cities of the developing world is key if we are to avoid uncontrollable poverty and ever worsening slums, says WaterAid in a new report
Rural women making change in Nicaragua
Most women in Nicaragua have to lease land, which ends up costing them half of what they earn, writes Oxfam Canada's Beatriz Gonzalez
Rethinking climate change as a security threat
Is handing over humanitarian responsibilities to the military a good idea, particularly for climate-vulnerable communities?
Why care about defence budget transparency?
If governments don't release information on defence spending, electorates and legislatures can't hold them to account
Refugees: the ultimate survivors
A Norwegian photographer spent seven years documenting the lives of refugees around the world
Can cultural connections boost adaptation to climate change?
Information and communications technology could provide ways for communities to bond ? and act
Global Fund delivers lifesaving results
The Global Fund has so far saved the lives of 7.7 million people, writes Joe Cerrell