Let’s remember our women in Africa

Posted by Ellee on Mar 8, 2007 in updates | 21 comments We rarely hear of AIDS in the UK today, even though newly diagnosed cases doubled in 2005 to more than 7,500 compared to 2000. It’s even harder to imagine what it must be like for sufferers in Africa.  By the end of 2005, there were five and a half million people living with HIV in South Africa, with almost 1,000 AIDS deaths occurring every day. And 74% of ...
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American blogger in longest contempt case

Posted by Ellee on Mar 8, 2007 in updates | 9 comments More new from America, where a blogger has spent more than six months behind  bars in California for refusing to hand over video footage of a violent San Francisco demo a a G8 summit meeting. It is the longest contempt of court sentence served by someone in the media. A “mediation session” will today try and break the impasse, else he will stay locked up until July. It is...
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Washington’s latest sex scandal

Posted by Ellee on Mar 8, 2007 in updates | 9 comments Dick Morris, the man credited with Bill Clinton’s presidential victory and UKIP’s outstanding success in the 2004 Euro Election, is named   as a client of a former Washington madam who  prosecutors want to gag. Deborah Palfrey has threatened to go public with details of her 10,000 former clients. She has been indicted on racketeering and money laundering...
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