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Monday, August 21, 2006

Club of New York despatched this observation note today to WorldEntrepreneur.net and its world guide tour. Extracted from the NewYork founded web RealizingRights coordinated by Mary Robinson.Realizing Rights - The Ethical Globalization Initiative
"AIDS testing drive could infringe rights: activists" by TodayOnline.com ... call to action by Mary Robinson: "We must have an Aids-free generation by 2015. ...


XVI International AIDS conferenceThe 16th International Conference on HIV and AIDS is taking place in Toronto, Canada from 13 - 18 August 2006. Around 24,000 participants from around the world are attending the conference where participants are sharing the latest evidence, ideas and lessons learned in AIDS research, policies and programmes. During the conference, Mary Robinson has been participating in many sessions, satellites and events. Read more...


HIV testing is a recurring theme at AIDS Conference in Toronto
"HIV testing can have severe consequences, especially for women" Mary Robinson has advised against routine "opt-out" HIV testing, warning that women who disclose their HIV-positive status are often subject to physical violence. "I see the counselling before testing, the real choice about testing, the 'opt-in' position... as being about dignity, as about rights." Also read the news articles: "AIDS testing drive could infringe rights: activists" by TodayOnline.com "Testing alone leads to stigma" by CNews.



Rally in Toronto demands action to protect women, girls in HIV pandemicAugust 14th 2006"We need to put the power to prevent HIV in the hands of women." Women's issues were front and centre Monday at a rally and march near the site of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Mary Robinson was one of the speakers at the gathering, which attracted more than a thousand people from around the world, and demanded urgent action for women and girls in the HIV/AIDS pandemic.



Mary Robinson contributes to special supplement in The GuardianAugust 12th 2006"Time to Act" On August 12th, Irish aid agency Concern and UK based newspaper The Guardian produced a special supplement [434KB] looking at issues around the HIV/Aids pandemic, which included a call to action by Mary Robinson: "We must have an Aids-free generation by 2015. This is not a goal for us to reach, it is an imperative that we must meet. We have the tools to make prevention a reality; we just need the will..."

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Worldwide, club of city supports collaboration and networkers: to pose serious questions, notably on future curves that seem to be trending down in many places and communities. How do all peoples and media 1 2 3 turnround such examples as:
  • Healthcare – ever increasing costs
  • Children – increased family strain, lost safety of community
  • Professionals- loss of Hippocratic oath, ever more bureaucratic
  • Water – Clean water is getting scarcer
  • Transport – getting slower
  • National Government – Increasingly powering over instead of facilitating what people need next Mass media – dumbing down, loss of social space and transparent debates
  • Food chain – cost of good for you food going up
  • Nations Cultures- love of each other’s diversity going down
  • Pensions (investment in sustainable growth) – going down
  • Adult confidence in making a difference with lifelong learning potentials – seems to be going down
  • Insurance – cost going up, learnings across biggest tragedies seem increasingly blocked
  • Underclass – compounding underclass- their loss of hope in life and mutual risks to all of us in a hi-connected world
  • NGOs/Charity – Global*Local infrastructure further removed from depth of grassroots needs in crisis or sustainability turnround challenges
    We are interested in any city network that either recognises any of these as a problem which it wants to question or has some answers they are happy to share with the world
    Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, London & DC, 30 years at origin of Entrepreneurial Revolution, 21 years @ Death of Distance transparency networking, valuetrue mapmaking 1