Gender-based violence and HIV linked
theGRIO REPORT - Women make up 50 percent of the 34 million people living with HIV-AIDS globally, and new reports show that HIV-positive women may face more gender-based violence than HIV-negative women...
Annual reminder that slavery still exists
theGRIO REPORT - In case you've forgotten, slavery continues to thrive throughout the world- mainly in the form of human trafficking. That's why the United Nations set December 2 as the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery...
UN: AIDS epidemic stabilizing, still work to do
LONDON (AP) - Critics say that the body's aim of wiping out the disease is overly optimistic, however, considering there is no vaccine, millions remain untreated and donations have slumped amid the economic crisis...
Who knew? 2011 is 'Year of People for African Descent'
OPINION - The majority of the African descendant populations in Latin America, the United States, Africa and the Caribbean have in fact not benefited at all from the International Year for people of African Descent...
Black stars on sidelines of Somalia famine fight
theGRIO REPORT - Would it be too far-fetched to imagine a coalition of African-American celebrities united as a voice for the women and children in the Horn of Africa who are too weakened by malnutrition to speak in a loud voice?..
UN debating prize in tainted African ruler's name
PARIS (AP) - UNESCO's director-general appealed to the organization's executive board Friday to reject a life sciences prize to be named after Equatorial Guinea's president, who has been accused of human rights violations...
Fidel Castro mocks Obama for Cuba comments
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) - Castro says many things will change in Cuba, but it will happen organically and in spite of pressure from Washington...
UN chief warns discrimination is increasing
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. chief urged all countries to 'stand firmly' against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and reject discrimination against Christians...
Somalia has world's highest infant mortality rate
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.N. says Somali children are more likely to die before they turn 5 than those in any other country in the world.
African Union pledges $380 million for famine aid
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - "This is what we pledged today, it is new money and exclusively African," said AU chairman Jean Ping...
