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Students crowded into corridors of the Center for Population and Development Studies yesterday to hear Presley Professor of Social Medicine Paul Farmer discuss his pioneering model for treating infectious diseases in developing countries. A captivated audience listened as Farmer, an internationally acclaimed physician and public health activist, explained how his HIV Equity Initiative is expanding its prevention and care programs to impoverished rural communities to Rwanda. The intiative, which is part of Farmer’s “Partners in Health” charity, was the first program in the world to offer free antiretroviral therapy and has been...
...importance of U.S. involvement, a stronger justice system, and classifying the situation in Darfur as genocide to resolve the conflict in the region during a speech in Emerson Hall last night. Barodi M. Fashir, a physician of internal medicine, and Salih Mayhoud Osman, a lawyer and human rights activist, addressed and took questions from an audience of about 30. After quoting both of President Bush’s inaugural addresses in which he promised aid to countries suffering from human rights injustices, Fashir asked that the U.S. keep Bush’s promises. “We need...
...Nearly 2,000 people rode buses and cars into the desert to protest the first U.S. nuclear explosion of the year $ and the 25th since the Soviet Union unilaterally declared a moratorium on nuclear testing in August 1985. Nye County authorities arrested 438 people, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Antiwar Activist Daniel Ellsberg, Actor Martin Sheen and Singer Kris Kristofferson, for trespassing on Department of Energy property. Said Sagan of the testing program: "We've built a kind of doomsday machine, which threatens certain global civilizations and possibly even the human species...
...heavily guarded border, deep in the mountainous terrain where Laos, China and Burma meet. Kim and her guide got out at a remote spot and started to walk. For two hours they trekked through the mountains until they met a car, which took them to Vientiane, where Hite, the activist once arrested by the Chinese, was waiting. On Dec. 24, Kim called her mother in Seoul, and Hite called Kim Sang Hun and Peters. A month later, Peters and Kim Sang Hun went to Thailand to meet the latest survivor of the journey along the underground railroad. When Kim Myong...
...pulpit of Youngnak Presbyterian Church, one of the oldest churches in Seoul. The congregation is more than 2,000 strong, joined together in a two-day prayer vigil for North Koreans. Though buoyed by Kim Myong Suk's success, Peters is weighed down by the arrest of that American activist now jailed in Yanji, China, a man in his late 60s. He wonders who will take his place, and the place of other, older activists. "Where are the young soldiers to step into the place that older missionaries now fill?" he asks the congregation. He steps down from the pulpit...