UN Envoy praises CARICOM response to tackling HIV/AIDS

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Source: Guyana Chronicle THE Caribbean Community’s response to tackling the HIV/AIDS epidemic came in for high praise from United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean region, Sir George Alleyne, during the recently concluded 30th Heads of Government meeting. Speaking with reporters last Friday at the Liliendaal Conference Centre, where the ...

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UNAIDS welcomes India decriminalising adult homosexual relations

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

New Delhi,—The Delhi High Court in India last Wednesday annulled a 150-year-old law criminalising “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” commonly known as Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. The court declared that section 377 of Indian Penal Code violated Articles 14, 15, 19 and 21 of the ...

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