Tag Archives: human rights

Education at the heart of HIV/AIDS prevention

The World AIDS Day themes – universal access and human rights – were addressed at the Finnish All-Party Group and Family Federation seminar that M4ID also attended this week. The seminar focused on sexual education which has a key role in preventing HIV infections. Since half of the world’s population is now under 25, the [...]

Women and Climate Change

Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address the problem, concludes UNFPA’s State of the World Population report launched last week.  The report argues that the international community’s fight against climate change is more likely to be successful if policies, programmes [...]