Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM) is an HIV/AIDS organization that works primarily with sex workers. SANGRAM is based in the Sangli district in Maharashtra state. Maharashtra has HIV rates four to five times the Indian national average, and Sangli has the highest infection rate in the state. The HIV rate among sex workers in Maharashtra was 17.91 percent in 2007, compared to the 0.34 percent overall prevalence among adults in India.
The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), an international advocacy organization for women’s health and rights, has partnered with SANGRAM since 2006 and produced a documentary about their work called “SANGRAM: Sex Workers Organizing in India.” Paradigm Shift, a feminist organization in New York, screened the documentary during an event on sex work and human rights in March.
The story of stuff project presents this new video together with organizations such as Corporate Accountability International, Polaris Institute, Environmental working group, Food and Water Watc- Pacific Institute.
People gathered for Eugene Terreblanche's funeral salute in Nazi-style, AP
After the murder of white supremacist leader Eugène Terre’Blanche, a longtime supporter of the apartheid government and an advocate for the creation of an all-white republic within South Africa, racial tensions in South have reached a new high.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now speaks with Adam Habib. Habib, visiting the United States of America, is professor of political science and deputy vice chancellor of the University of Johannesburg. He was barred from entering the United States for over three years until the Obama administration withdrew the ban on his US visa earlier this year.
One of the creators of Oscar-nominated animation Waltz With Bashir has made a short film to alter Israeli perceptions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. A 90-second film Closed Zone has been launched online in support of the human rights group Gisha, which advocates freedom of movement for Palestinians. It shows a Palestinian boy chasing a bird but having his path blocked. http://www.closedzone.com/
