IPS Inter Press Service

Claire Ngozo

LILONGWE - Malawi is quickly becoming unsafe for homosexuals as the country’s police service recently launched a campaign to hunt down and arrest prominent people who are suspected of being gay.

MALAWI: Love That Dares To Speak Its Name

RIGHTS-UGANDA: Fugitives in Their Own Country

RIGHTS-UGANDA: "You Cannot Tell Me You Will Kill Me Because I’m Gay"

THAILAND: In Convoys of Red, Rural Masses Stage Historic Protest
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - An unprecedented show of force by men and women from Thailand’s rural hinterland was on display over the weekend as they poured into Bangkok in the tens of thousands to stake a claim on having a voice in shaping this South-east Asian kingdom’s national agenda.

MEXICO: Music and Dance Classes Foster Tolerance, Self-Esteem
Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Ten-year-old Jessica Algoneda leaps in the air, raising her arms and spinning around at her primary school in the Mexican capital, as if in honour of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance and poetry.

HEALTH: U.S. AIDS Fund Flat-Lining, Groups Complain
	The debate between those who favour investment in AIDS treatment and those who favour investment in its prevention came to the forefront Thursday at a U.S House of Representatives hearing on U.S. investments in HIV/AIDS in Africa.

RIGHTS: Gender Confab Marked by Political Uncertainties

BIODIVERSITY: Lucrative Shark Trade Under Scrutiny

HEALTH-UGANDA: EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines
	The European Union (EU) is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 percent of medicines used in Uganda’s health-care system are imported, of which about 93 percent are generics.

RIGHTS-MALAWI: Country Not Safe for Homosexuals

POLITICS-NIGERIA : In the Shadows of Men: Women’s Political Marginalisation

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: All Eyes on Forest Protection Body
	Seemingly unstoppable development has made a mockery of the protected status of this southern Indian region, which houses vast biodiversity and some of the finest examples of moist deciduous and tropical forests.

MALAYSIA: Creation of Commercial Hospital Wings a Mistake -Critics

THAILAND: In Convoys of Red, Rural Masses Stage Historic Protest

HEALTH-UGANDA: EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines
	The European Union (EU) is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 percent of medicines used in Uganda’s health-care system are imported, of which about 93 percent are generics.

CULTURE: Poor Patronage Killing Arab Cinema

Q&A: 'Israeli Siege Causing De-development of Gaza'

MEXICO: Music and Dance Classes Foster Tolerance, Self-Esteem
	Ten-year-old Jessica Algoneda leaps in the air, raising her arms and spinning around at her primary school in the Mexican capital, as if in honour of Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance and poetry.

RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: 'Our Lives Are Cut Short at a Stroke'

MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive

MIDEAST: An Unlikely Collision Takes Place
	In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and the Palestinian Authority into beginning to talk again.

CULTURE: Poor Patronage Killing Arab Cinema

MIDEAST: Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare

US-ISRAEL: Tiff or Tipping Point?
	"Condemn" is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel.

HEALTH: U.S. AIDS Fund Flat-Lining, Groups Complain

BIODIVERSITY: Lucrative Shark Trade Under Scrutiny

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: All Eyes on Forest Protection Body
	Seemingly unstoppable development has made a mockery of the protected status of this southern Indian region, which houses vast biodiversity and some of the finest examples of moist deciduous and tropical forests.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Law on Forest Rights Fails to Deliver

BIODIVERSITY: Lucrative Shark Trade Under Scrutiny

MIDEAST: An Unlikely Collision Takes Place
	In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and the Palestinian Authority into beginning to talk again.

ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: All Eyes on Forest Protection Body

HEALTH-UGANDA: EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines

HEALTH-UGANDA: EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines
	The European Union (EU) is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 percent of medicines used in Uganda’s health-care system are imported, of which about 93 percent are generics.

MALAYSIA: Creation of Commercial Hospital Wings a Mistake -Critics

HEALTH: U.S. AIDS Fund Flat-Lining, Groups Complain

MIDEAST: Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
	Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50.

RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: 'Our Lives Are Cut Short at a Stroke'

MEXICO: Consumers on the Offensive