(CNS): At the 2015 United Nations General Assembly, governments committed to achieve SDGs by 2030, one of which is to end AIDS and TB by 2030. If people living with HIV continue to die of TB, we will not only fail to achieve SDGs but also lose gains made in the fights against HIV and TB. Keeping in mind the[Read More…]
Senior HIV activists who have not only helped shape HIV responses on the ground over the years, but also have been living with the virus for several years, shared their personal battle against self-stigma at a press conference session hosted by The Work For Change (www.theworkforchange.org) and partners at the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) held in Durban, South[Read More…]
(Based on an exclusive interview given by Nqobile Zungu, and her doctor Dr Samele Madela to CNS – Citizen News Service) I met 37 years old Nqobile Zungu, at the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) that is being held in Durban. And yes, her looks were deceptive in the sense that one could never guess that her outwardly healthy[Read More…]
AIDS 2016, the XXI International AIDS Conference – (with the theme of ‘Access Equity Rights Now’) which will be held in Durban, South Africa, from 18 to 22 July 2016, marks a dramatic change in the country’s AIDS response in the 16 years since XIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2000), which was also held in Durban “When Nelson Mandela[Read More…]
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Understanding India’s Migrant Workers’ Crisis through the Prism of Commodity Fetishism 
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Land May Be A Deeply Philosophical Issue But Must Face Practical Realities of This World 
The dalit teacher – facing a 360-degree discrimination 
Farmer’s Movement At A Crucial Juncture 
The Limits of Gandhian Non-Violence 
Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1976). John Toland 
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Rohingyas: The tale of an ill-decided fate 
Amidst shortages in India unplanned Vaccine Plan stumbles 
Yemen Is a Public Health Catastrophe 
We, the People, the Humanity and Our Entangled Future in Global COVID-19 Pandemic 
40th anniversary of epic 153 of Graham Gooch 
Horn of Africa: A blamegame 
Hunting in Yemen 
How Rich Countries Are Cheating In Climate Change Negotiations 
Save Pollinators Campaign Needed On Urgent Basis As Bees, Butterflies and Birds Face Increasing Risks 
The United States After Trump 
Experts demand compulsory licensing for generic production of a drug against Covid-19 
From Pacifism To Violence and the Dialectic 
PUCL condemns the Unprecedented Attack on Rights Activists by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the NIA 
Earth’s Real Treasure 
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Himachal Move For Selling Liquor at Petrol Pumps Will Be Dangerous For Safety 
Can Farmland for the Landless Become A Reality On A Large Scale 
The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded 
A Compliment to Bharat Dogra The Global Anti-Eritrea-Ethiopia Agenda 
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Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s comment linking rape to how women dress 
Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India 
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Mamata’s Call for United Front: Can Democracy be saved in India? 
Pathways for Progress of Farmers’ Movement 
Why Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath Remains the Most Memorable Saga of Displaced Farmers and Migrating Workers 
Fatuous Defence: Australia’s Guided Missile Plans 
From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future 
When I founded Countercurrents.org in 2002, Disha Ravi who was arrested for sedition yesterday was a two-year-old toddler. In 2002, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 370 ppm. Now it is 415 ppm. In just 19 years CO2 levels increased by just over 2ppm/year. The level of cumulative greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide etc is[Read More…]
