What we’ve been checking out online this week:
As a follow up to our posts from two weeks ago about Uganda’s potential legislation against homosexuality, leaders are speaking out against the proposed bill: Remarks by Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Delivered at the Commonwealth People’s Forum on the Eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out strongly this week to state that the United States will not tolerate efforts to criminalize homosexuality among countries that receive U.S. funding to combat HIV/AIDS.
The Athena Network has a really great new publication (link directs you to a PDF) called 10 Reasons Why Criminalization of HIV Exposure or Transmission Harms Women
And here on Akimbo:
A few staff members attended a protest against the New York State Senate’s vote against marriage equality, and Claire Kenny wrote about it: The Struggle for Marriage Equality, Close to Home
Our Indian partner CREA is doing an Online Course on Disability, Sexuality, and Rights and they are accepting applications through December 18th
Ishita Sharma, a member of The YP Foundation, who are our partners in Delhi, wrote about their recent event VIKALP: Youth Forum on Social Change
For World AIDS Day on December 1, we asked people to Thank Those Who Battle AIDS All Year Long
And in solidarity with our colleagues in Mexico, we circulated Grupo Lesbico Universitario’s request to Support Same-Sex Marriage in Mexico City
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