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Friday, October 28, 2011

Motion of No Confidence Against HRCM

For failing to protect the human rights of citizens, a motion of no confidence against the Human Rights Commission of Maldives (HRCM) is being considered by the MDP Parliamentary Group, said Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) MP Mohamed Mustafa to Minivan News yesterday. When HRCM was approached regarding the situation of Homosexuality in June 2011, they quoted growing religious extremism as the reason why the Queer community of Maldives was being ignored by them. They have failed to answer e-mails and phone calls since regarding this matter. “We have noticed that the HRCM members that we appointed have failed to protect the rights...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Fact Sheet: HIV AIDS as of October 2011

Enhancing the Response to HIV/AIDS in the Maldives HIV/AIDS Situation At the end of 31 December 2005, a total of 13 HIV cases among Maldivians, and 168 HIV cases among expatriate workers have been reported. Of the 13 HIV-positive cases reported among Maldivians, 10 were sailors, two were the spouses of these sailors, and one was a resort worker who travelled abroad with a foreign tourist. Eleven HIV cases were male. All infections were acquired through heterosexual route of transmission. Compared to many countries in the region it has a very low prevalence of HIV. The challenge for the Maldives is to ensure it remains a low HIV prevalence country...

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Why minorities tend to make more noise

Via Hilath.com | October 8th, 2011 It’s common sense that when you are a minority (like a Maldivian Christian, Wahhabi, atheist, gay, lesbian, etc) your sense of survival will be more heightened especially if the majority of the people are seen as trying to force you to bend to their will by making it a must in the Maldives’ Constitution that all Maldivian Citizens be strictly Sunni Muslims and cannot belong to either other Muslim denominations like Sufism and Shiittism and other religions like Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. So Mr. Ibrahim Mohamed could be forgiven for writing this opinion...

Monday, October 3, 2011

Does love have a shelf life?

Via Hilath.com | 3 Oct 2011 A journalist friend recently said that scientific studies show that “after a few orgasms”, a straight couple’s bond “bio-chemically” cements into a fiercely loyal, emotional, monogamous relationship, and that, the spark of romance exists for the next four years — just only enough to ensure that at least the first offspring can make through the first critical three years of life in the safe and secure arms of two loving biological parents. Smells like Darwinism and you are right. All human feelings and emotions are just reactions in our neurons to physical reception from events occurring in our...

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