UN says AIDS battle will fail without progress on women&#39;s rights
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The global battle against HIV will ultimately fail unless serious progress is made on women&#39;s rights in the developing world, the United Nations says.
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A global effort to fight poverty with better population management that UN officials once hoped could &quot;change the world&quot; has made limited progress after one decade, a new UN study said yesterday.
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LONDON -- Wealthy countries are falling billions of dollars short of their promises to help fund reproductive health care and efforts to improve the status of women around the world, the United Nations said yesterday.
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The top UN AIDS official in Uganda is denying reports the government is pressuring his agency not to promote the use of condoms. However, heâs concerned that some people may be trying to mix facts about HIV/AIDS with ideology.
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The international human rights group, Amnesty International, said on Wednesday that a global &quot;pandemic of violence&quot; against women was fuelling the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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A leading human rights group has issued a global call to action to challenge violence against women and the failure of governments to prevent it.
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Discrimination against women is stopping economic and social development in the Arab World, the UN reports.
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Women make up nearly half of infected adults worldwide, the United Nations said in issuing its annual report on AIDS.
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UNAIDS and the Global Coalition for Women and AIDS recently concluded their &quot;16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence&quot; campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the &quot;links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV infection&quot;.
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Description: A United Nations report being issued in advance of World AIDS Day says women now account for nearly half the number of people infected with HIV worldwide.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan told African leaders Sunday they were failing to meet targets for reducing poverty and combating killer diseases five years after agreeing to global development goals.
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Governments must do more to ensure women and girls get treatment for HIV/AIDS, the United Nations health agency said Tuesday, the eve of World AIDS Day.
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African governments are  denying access to HIV prevention, counseling, testing and  treatment to gay, bisexuals and transgender people, according  to a new report.
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The Bush administration has done little to follow up its landmark declaration that called human rights abuses in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region &quot;genocide,&quot; resulting in &quot;100 days of failure,&quot; said advocacy group Africa Action as the world marked Human Rights Day
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The world's top AIDS donors, including the U.S. president's fund, need to tie the fight against the deadly virus to preventing the rape and abuse of women and girls, rights groups said on Tuesday.
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Algeria's government has failed  to take needed measures to protect women from rape, beatings  and widespread legal and economic discrimination, Amnesty  International told a U.N. panel on Monday.
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(Bangkok, Thailand-AP) Dec. 1, 2004 - Every December 1st the United Nations spearheads commemorations of the global AIDS epidemic and this year, the focus is on women and girls.