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Featured Issue Focus:
HIV/AIDS and Health as a Human Right
Unfinished Business: In the last 15 years, AIDS activists and medical professionals,
in Africa and around the world, have won the recognition that
the fight against AIDS, which disproportionately affects the African
continent, is a shared global responsibility.
Millions of lives have been saved. But the fight against AIDS
and the wider commitment to health as a universal human right is now
threatened by "AIDS fatigue" and austerity politics. It's
time to build on success and reject the callous assumption
that millions more should simply be left to die, whether
from AIDS or as a result of other unmet health needs.
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Recent AfricaFocus Bulletins on HIV/AIDS & Health
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AfricaFocus Bulletin
May 23, 2013 Congo (Kinshasa): U.S.-Trained Battalion Implicated in Rapes
"A Congolese army battalion that received its formative
training from the U.S. military went on to commit mass
rapes and other atrocities last year, a U.N.
investigation has found. Members of the 391st Commando
Battalion, a unit created in 2010 with extensive support
from the U.S. government, joined with other Congolese
soldiers to rape 97 women and 33 girls as they fled a
rebel advance in eastern Congo in November, according to
the United Nations. U.S. Special Operations forces had
spent eight months training the 750-member battalion in a
bid to professionalize Congo's ragtag military, which has
a long history of rights abuses, including raping and
killing civilians." - Washington Post, May 13, 2013
May 13, 2013 Africa: Rise of the Global South
"Although most developing countries have done well, a
large number of countries have done particularly well --
what can be called the 'rise of the South'. Some of the
largest countries have made rapid advances, notably
Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and
Turkey. But there has also been substantial progress in
smaller economies, such as Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana,
Mauritius, Rwanda and Tunisia. ... For the first time in
150 years, the combined output of the developing world's
three leading economies -- Brazil, China and India -- is
about equal to the combined GDP of the longstanding
industrial powers of the North -- Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and the United States." -
UNDP Human Development Report, 2013
May 8, 2013 USA/Africa: Immigration Reform Needs Fixing
"The recently released Senate immigration reform bill had
a mix of carrot and stick approaches to providing the
long-awaited path to citizenship for millions of
undocumented people living under repressive conditions.
While the bill has several good features, it weighs
heavily toward very bad and very ugly provisions that
will leave out millions of people and will continue the
mass detentions and deportations that have become
normalized in U.S. society." - Gerald Lenoir, Black
Alliance for Just Immigration
Apr 26, 2013 Morocco: Violence against Migrants
"The renewed cooperation efforts between Morocco and
Spain which, according to these countries, are focused on
the fight against cross-border crime, illegal migration
and drug trafficking. are having a serious impact on the
physical and mental health of sub-Saharan migrants.
Migration policies privilege internal security criteria
over respect for fundamental human rights." - David
Cantero, Head of Mission in Morocco for Doctors Without
Borders (MSF).
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