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World AIDS Day: Punitive laws threaten HIV progress

HIV prevention efforts – and the promise of antiretroviral therapy as prevention – are being undermined by punitive laws targeting those infected with and at risk of HIV, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of World AIDS Day. This year's World AIDS Day theme is “universal access and human rights,” tying together goals for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care with recognition that respect for human rights is critical in the global response to AIDS.

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Obama pushes human rights in meetings with Chinese

BEIJING – President Barack Obama is pushing China on human rights, telling President Hu Jintao the U.S. believes all men and woman have “certain fundamental rights.” Obama met with his counterpart during two meetings Tuesday and pushed for improved treatment of Chinese ethnic and religious minorities

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So, Wait: Why Did Obama Make a Big, Gay Speech?

Here’s something queer. President Obama spent 20 minutes of his Saturday night talking to gay group Human Rights Campaign and their well-heeled supporters

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Obama’s Gay Night Out Brings Sullivan, Phelps Together

Once in a great while, ideological opponents find themselves on the same side of a debate. And, though both parties find one another repulsive, that’s what’s happening, however tenuously, with Andrew Sullivan and those “God Hates Fags” crazies. The issue at hand: President Obama’s plans to address elitist gay group Human Rights Campaign ‘s annual dinner in DC

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scientology

Organizations of the Scientology Religion: The Advanced Organization and Saint Hill Europe. [ 1 ] The word Scientology means the “study of knowledge or truth” and addresses the rehabilitation and salvation of the human spirit. [ 2 ] Hubbard characterized Scientology as a religion, and in 1953 incorporated the Church of Scientology in New Jersey.

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Cult Claims EPIDEMIC of RAPE by PSYCHIATRISTS!

There is currently an “epidemic” of rape by psychiatrists, according to officials of Scientolog y front group “Citizens Commission on Human Rights” (sic), or CCHR. In addition, the officials assert that psychiatrists intentionally network their “pet” sex offenders, in lieu of treating them, so that the sex offenders can “compare notes,” and then form “terror cells” in ordinary communities. In the first part of a recently released video compiled from interviews on two Florida local cable access Scientology-oriented TV shows, former CCHR president Dennis H.

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Madonna Booed in Bucharest

Never too far from controversy even as an established pop institution at age 51, Madonna was hit with a wave of boos at her concert in Bucharest, Romania. Why

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