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By Johanna Son, Inter Press Service

[Editor's Note: The article was originally published by Terra Viva on 11 August 2009 . Johanna Son is a former board member of Isis International.]

One can take anti-retroviral therapy to cope with HIV. But how does one cure the deeply rooted social inequities that leave groups like men who have sex with men and drug users, as well as women, out of the reach of efforts to address the pandemic? This question, at the core of discussions at Tuesday’s plenary session at the 9th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) here, points to what many say is the next big step in the fight against HIV and AIDS.

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by Isis International

Back in 1983, two million people attended Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino's funeral cortege. Although described as the Philippine's largest and longest funeral cortege and protest, the event hardly made it to the local media the next day. Instead, the then Daily Express featured a man who was electrocuted by lightning.

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by Marilee Karl

In her updated essay, Marilee Karl reviews the promises of the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) as well as the Millennium Development Goals as she once more makes a case for a sharper gender lens in assessing the current food crisis. She asserts that we are still far from achieving a hunger-free world. The 1996 WFS aimed to decrease the number of malnourished people by 2015 to 400 million yet 2008 saw this number soared to 923 million. In addition, some 75 million more people experienced hunger in 2007.

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By Nina Somera

More than a decade since the World Food Summit (WFS) in 1996, the fears of women and men over the then emerging shadows of neoliberal globalisation have come true. Many farmers have been displaced; lands are becoming more concentrated to a few and contaminated; the distribution of goods has become more skewed; and hunger is increasingly on the rise, among many others. More than a decade since the WFS, another episode of food crisis is taking place in a stage of modernisation and overproduction. Of all the actors involved, women have borne most of the brunt.

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by World March of Women and the Red Latinoamericana Mujeres
Transformando la Economía
[This statement was issued on 30 June 2009]

The World March of Women and the Red Latinoamericana Mujeres Transformando la Economía join all feminist organizations and social movements from Honduras to condemn and strongly reject the military coup against president Manuel Zelaya Rosales, organised by the Army and the President of the National Congress, Roberto Micheletti, with the support of the mass media controlled by the oligarchy of that country.

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by Nina Somera, Isis International

The biggest democracy in the Southern hemisphere has chosen its leaders for the next five years. Indian voters gave a fresh mandate to Prime Minister Mammohan Singh and cemented the charisma of Congress President and UPA chairperson Ms. Sonia Gandhi.