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Rights abuses fuel AIDS: Since the early 1980s, HIV/AIDS has claimed 25 million lives.40 million people are living with HIV. Its destructive force is fueled by a wide range of human rights violations. Such violations include sexual violence and coercion faced by women and girls, stigmatization of men who have sex with men, abuses against sex workers and injecting drug users, and violations of the right of young persons to information on HIV transmission. In prisons, HIV spreads with frightening efficiency due to sexual violence, lack of access to condoms, lack of harm reduction measures for drug users, and lack of information. Human rights violations only add to the stigmatization of persons at highest risk of infection and ... marginalize and drive underground those most in need of information, preventive services, and treatment.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Genmab A/S announced today that it has obtained exclusive rights to patents to develop antibodies against IL15, a cytokine implicated in a variety of inflammatory conditions including arthritis, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease. Genmab is developing a portfolio of fully human antibodies derived from Medarex's (Nasdaq: MEDX) HuMAb-Mouse(TM) technology. These rights were obtained from Immunex Corporation (Nasdaq: IMNX) through a sub-license from Medarex. Immunex retains an option to commercialize the resulting fully human IL15 antibody and, in that event would provide a license fee, milestone payments and profit sharing to Genmab. If Genmab commercializes the IL15 antibody, it would pay Immunex milestone fees and royalties. Immunex will ... provide scientific and technical assistance to Genmab with respect to IL15.
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Quinn contrasts his status approach to rights with one that ascribes rights "because such an arrangement best promotes overall human welfare." His target is consequentialist theories of rights, the paradigm of which are utilitarian theories. We met such a utilitarian theory of rights above in John Stuart Mill's conceptualization of rights as "something which society ought to defend me in the possession of." Mill believed that society ought to defend the individual in possession of his rights because doing so would bring about the greatest aggregate utility summed across the members of that society. For Mill, as for other instrumental theorists, rights are a tool for producing an optimal distribution of interests across some group.
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From an animal rights perspective, there are plenty of reasons to go vegetarian. The climate change consequences are just another compelling reason to stop raising farm animals for human use, whether it's for meat, dairy or other animal products. Unfortunately, it's a hard habit for many people to break. Moby sums it up nicely in his blog: He says the glaring omission in the climate change discussion is like “…talking about someone with lung cancer and neglecting to mention that they smoked two packs of cigarettes a day. It's just depressing that some huge truths about climate change are too inconvenient even for the well-intentioned left.”
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A strong emphasis on the rights of individual women and men underpins the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action that guides UNFPA’s work. This emphasis on human rights at the ICPD moved population policy and programmes from a focus on numbers to a focus on individual human lives. The ICPD Programme of Action – ... known as the Cairo Consensus – reaffirmed the application of universally recognized human rights standards to all aspects of population and development programmes, and called for a common ground, with full respect for the various religious and ethical values as well as cultural backgrounds. more
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Columbia University was the first to make human rights prominent in university education - professional, graduate, and undergraduate. Columbia Law School has the oldest comprehensive human rights program in legal education in the United States, perhaps in the world, including one of the first internship programs and human rights clinics.
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