Asia Catalyst invites applications for one scholarship to
participate in the International AIDS Conference in Vienna from July
16-24. Applications must be received by April 25. The scholarship will support a Chinese
PLWHA， a current or former sex worker or drug user to
participate in the meeting.
亚洲促
进会邀请中国艾滋NGO申请一个参加
维也纳7月16日到24日召开的国际艾滋大会的奖学金。申请截至日期是4月25日。我们会支持一位感染者,
现在或者目前性工作者/成瘾者，参加会议。
By Gisa Hartmann
Last month, I went on my second trip to China for Asia
Catalyst. As we’ve previously discussed in this blog, Asia Catalyst is spending
several years “incubating” or building the internal management skills of
Phoenix, a nonprofit organization of sex workers living with HIV/AIDS. Phoenix
is based in Gejiu, Yunnan, on China’s borders with Vietnam. My main objective
during my two weeks there was to help Phoenix to develop their staff management
system, as well as improve their understanding of budgeting and financial
reporting. We spent an intense two weeks tracking down and discussing every
single receipt for the past two quarters.
One morning, as I was preparing for another day of office
work, I received a call on my cell asking me to come to the office as soon as
possible. The husband of a Phoenix member had died the previous day.
By Gregg Gonsalves
Yale University and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition
Comments at
The Future of Development:
Human Rights and International Aid Beyond the Economic Crisis
Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium
April 8-9, 2010
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
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Good afternoon. Greetings from up on Science Hill, where I just got out of a
class on evolutionary biology. Permit me to use one analogy today–only because it seems so apt. A new book by a fairly well-known philosopher named Jerry Fodor has just come out. It’s called What
Darwin Got Wrong. This isn’t some creationist tract. Dr. Fodor apparently believes in evolution, but he thinks Darwin erred by claiming natural selection is responsible for it. The book hasn’t been well-received among scientists–not because we have a vested interest in this 150-year-old theory, but because the evidence supports natural selection and Dr. Fodor’s description of it only remotely resembles the phenomenon.
By Annie Ye Ren
For the past four years, I have periodically worked with a Chinese grassroots HIV/AIDS
non-governmental organization (NGO) that serves children in Fuyang Prefecture,
Anhui Province. The Fuyang AIDS Orphan
Salvation Association (AOS) gives aid directly to local communities, addressing
local needs that are often overlooked or underfunded by large-scale government
projects.
by Ken Oh
Around Asia, internet users face several barriers to doing legal research. The barriers can be political, as the recent row
between China and Google demonstrates. In some cases, developing countries do not have the capacity to provide internet access to their citizens. Finally (and likely the most easily fixed), the barriers can be more practical: once you have internet access, how do you know where to search?
