Peter Richards
NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov 21 2011 (IPS) – Cracey Fernandes, the president of the Guyana Sex Work Coalition, does not hide the fact that he is homosexual.
Fernandes, who goes by the name Isabella , is also aware that despite efforts to decrease cases of people infected with HIV, the virus that causes the deadly acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), he belongs to the group men having sex with men (MSM), considered in the Caribbean among the high risk groups capable of spreading the virus.
I knew the road was not easy, he told a regional gathering here, recalling his time in prison on a murder-related charge when male sex workers were targeted for no reason at all .
Marcus Day, who heads the St. Lucia-based Caribbean Drug and Alcohol Research Inst…
Veena S. Kulkarni is Associate Professor, Department of Criminology, Sociology, & Geography, Arkansas State University, US; Vani S. Kulkarni is Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, US; and Raghav Gaiha is (Hon.) Professorial Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England.
Disability is neither purely medical nor purely social. Rather, it is an outcome of their interplay.
NEW DELHI, Jul 31 2017 (IPS) – The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 (or RPD Act) is laudable in its intent and procedural detail, but mostly silent on disabilities among the elderly. Indeed, for this reason alone,…