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US: Schools won’t teach children about lesbian sex and that’s hurting queer girls

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When Hannah Harp took her 6th-grade sex education course in upstate New York, she learned about sex at its most traditional form—it was for reproduction, her teacher told her, and was supposed to involve a penis.

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Ghana: A Reporting System to Protect the Human Rights of People Living with HIV and Key Populations

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People living with HIV and key populations face human rights violations that affect their access to health services, relationships in their communities, housing options, and employment.

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Harnessing human rights for the AIDS response

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A special section on HIV and human rights has been published in the Health and Human Rights Journal. Eleven papers—covering issues such as HIV-related stigma and discrimination, gender inequality and the effects of the abuse and criminalization of key populations—offer critical reflections on the AIDS response and call for renewed efforts to confront legal, social and structural barriers in order to realize better health for all.

UK: Colour, gender, religion: there’s more than political correctness to the new British Army recruitment campaign

The message of these animations is clear: the army will accept you without judgement and welcome you into its family, irrespective of whether you are a woman, gay, a practising Muslim, emotionally vulnerable or even physically unfit.