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...Lewis specifically lamented the plight of women and called for the creation of an international UN agency to deal specifically with women's issues. "Women are at the heart of the pandemic," he said, with women and girls making up 76% of those infected between the ages...
Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, took his impassioned one-man crusade to New York City's Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs yesterday, calling HIV "the ultimate ethical issue." In an hour-long speech, Lewis made the case that, despite a few optimistic advances, the developed world has failed to control the spread of the deadly disease throughout the poorest continent...
...better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next - hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists? Gilbert Laraque Miami Why do the Western media lap up the sob stories dished out by apologists for the jihadists vowing destruction of everything un-Islamic on the face of the earth? Attorney Gitanjali Gutierrez, arguing the case of detainee al-Qahtani, is obviously an interested party. Otherwise she would not have gone fishing for the kind of information she dishes out to gullible liberal media. She has been conditioned to use anything...
...KUNG FU FIGHTER’Interracial dating is more problematic for Asian men, says Edward Y. Lee ’08, who is Korean American.Asian men do not typically date outside of their race because they are stereotypically viewed as “very un-masculine,” Lee says. He points out that few Asian men play for American professional sports teams. And in movies, he says, Asian men still only play two roles: the kung fu fighter and the angry store owner. Asian women, in contrast, are portrayed as having increasingly varied and prominent roles, Lee says...
...weapons of mass destruction, links with al-Qaeda, and human rights violations. Three years later, the first two accusations have proven spurious, and the U.S.’s credibility to address the third issue has become deeply suspect. Abuses in Iraq are, as a top human rights UN official in the country recently argued, “certainly as bad” and extend “over a much wider section of the population than” under Saddam Hussein.Yet once again the halls of Washington ring with calls for “regime change...