Inequality: Punitive laws hit on sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, drug use and sex work
From my life, in my own deepest being, I know the power of stigma, discrimination, hatred and exclusion. And, after 25 years as a judge, I have been witness to three facts. First, the destructive power of stigma and shame. Second, the damage punitive and discriminatory laws inflict on public...
Aids inequality: Punitive laws hit on peoples’ sexual orientation, gender identity, HIV status, drug use and sex work From my life, in my own deepest being, I know the power of stigma, discrimination, hatred and exclusion. And, after 25 years as a judge, I have been witness to three facts....
Access to ARVs is linked to democratic values, rule of law, freedom of expression and freedom to protest
On December 1, we marked World AIDS Day. This year marks a sombre anniversary. On June 5, 2021, it was 40 years since disturbingly unexplained cases of illness and death – later called AIDS – were first officially tabulated. These four decades have yielded enormous medical and scientific progress, but...
Trial of 20 who plotted to kill Madagascar president Rajoelina begins in capital Antananarivo
Twenty people, including two French nationals, were charged on Monday with plotting to kill Madagascar’s president and other offences as their trial began in the Indian Ocean Island nation. Madagascar has a history of political violence. Former coup leader Andry Rajoelina, 44, was sworn in as president in 2019 after...
Senior British journalists under fire for trying to ‘bury’ PM Johnson’s Christmas party during Covid lockdown
Dominic Cummings has accused senior political journalists of trying to “bury” the story of an alleged Christmas party in Downing Street because they were there. The Prime Minister’s former top aide – now a regular critic of Boris Johnson’s government – suggested Number 10 is lying about the gatherings, which...
Irritated Mikel Arteta rates Arsenal’s performance against Everton as too passive to win a match
Mikel Arteta has slammed Arsenal’s “sloppy” performance in Monday night’s Premier League defeat to Everton, while he played down the significance of Ben Godfrey’s clash with Takehiro Tomiyasu. The Gunners took the lead at Goodison Park on the stroke of half-time just moments after Everton had a goal ruled out...
Arsenal goalkeepers Aaron Ramsdale and Bernd Leno are at peace with each other, despite swapping berths
Aaron Ramsdale says Bernd Leno is “perfect” with him despite displacing his Arsenal teammate as No.1 goalkeeper. Ramsdale arrived at the Emirates in the summer after Arsenal struck a deal worth up to £30 million with Sheffield United to sign the 23-year-old. Although Leno, 29, started in the defeats to...
It was brisk business for Top 100 military hardware makers despite coronavirus economic shocks
Despite the global economy contracting amid the upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s top 100 arms producers increased sales slightly in 2020, to $531 billion, according to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). This amounted to an increase of 1.3 per cent in...
