Sentences with phrase «aid crisis»

A legal aid crisis is evident in many countries.

To date, Cranna says everyone involved in the legal aid crisis in Alberta has been reacting to problems as they arise, but a lack of consistent data poses a problem when it comes to determining exactly what resources should be available for legal aid.

EDMONTON — NDP Leader and Justice critic Rachel Notley is calling on the PCs to find a meaningful, long term solution to the legal aid crisis in Alberta.

She has served as executive producer of four documentary films, including Kicking It, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; A Powerful Noise, which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival; She Is the Matador; and The Other City, a critically acclaimed portrayal of the HIV / AIDS crisis in Washington, DC, which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

When U2 frontman Bono spoke to Harvard's graduating class last summer, he urged graduates to help end Third World debt and fight the AIDS crisis in Africa.

One effect of the AIDS crisis has been to increase the pressure on the churches to deal in some way with the issue of homosexuality.

The AIDS crisis itself has revealed a shocking degree of sexual promiscuity prevalent across the broad range of American society.

From the AIDS crisis to transgenderism, it has assumed that medical technology and government activism will pay the mortgage on the debts — physical and social — created by behavior which exalts personal desire while eschewing personal responsibility.

No one can look at the worldwide AIDS crisis and not acknowledge that sexual promiscuity has horrific ramifications.

The myth that gay and lesbian people are child molesters often goes unchallenged when spread from the pulpit, and in the 80s and 90s, many Christians refused to support efforts to curb the HIV / AIDS crisis as they believed it to be a «curse from God» that gay people deserved.

The AIDS crisis has been teaching me this, as did my father's nine - year bout with cancer, which resulted in his death in 1984.

He refers to the AIDS crisis in Africa as «the biggest pandemic in the history of civilization... And it is not a priority for the West.

As for lies about condoms — your pope claimed that use of condoms in Africa would make the AIDS crisis worse.

The church needs to understand this aspect of the AIDS crisis because many hemophiliacs with AIDS are seated in our pews, representing another dimension of today's most serious medical issue, too often ignored by the media and even by those of us interested in helping AIDS victims.

We hear of poverty or the AIDS crisis — and we do not even blush to read Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs's audacious proposal (The End of Poverty) that our generation can choose to end poverty.

Ethicist James B. Nelson goes much too far when he argues that «we who call ourselves Christians bear major responsibility for the problems created by the AIDS crisis....

If, however, our scenario had been a different topic — say, a student had experienced extreme poverty for the first time, or realized the magnitude of the global AIDS crisis and wanted to talk to her pastor about how her faith speaks to that — I imagine the response would have been easier for our students to get out and distinctly Christian.

As the AIDS crisis worsens, it has the capacity to bring on an antisex hysteria.

As the AIDS crisis enveloped Africa, Western nations generously pressed the snappy acronym «ABC» — Abstinence, Be faithful, use a Condom — as a strategy for education and public health.

Reddy's rationalization is fairly representative of views popular with the government and the development elite, who strive to keep the international and local media's attention on South Africa's AIDS crisis in order to foster foreign aid and grass - roots projects.

People turn to us for counseling at every stage of the AIDS crisis.

That the AIDS crisis threatens Africa's economic development seems unarguable.

For instance, during the 1980s, the least acceptable response to the AIDS crisis was the promotion of abstinence.

One year later, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, I believe it's helpful to revisit just what the Pope had to say about condom usage and the HIV / AIDS crisis and how we can best respond....

The circuit of mass communication: media strategies, representation and audience responses in the AIDS crisis.

Despite this advice from the world's most reliable health organization, Nestle chose to attempt to exploit the AIDS crisis, the worst health disaster in human history, and try to sell some extra bottles of formula.

Nestle has been losing ground to breastfeeding mothers in most areas of the world, but is looking to gain a foothold once more through exploitation of the HIV / AIDS crisis.

During the height of the AIDS crisis, Ms. Gillibrand's sister, a playwright and actress, volunteered to help children with AIDS.

At the same time, Cuomo has acted through executive order to step up efforts to ban so - called conversion therapy and combat the HIV / AIDS crisis.

«When the AIDS crisis burned and ravaged its way through this community and thousands of gay men were literally dying, every day New Yorkers stood up... they organized, they put their bodies on the line... they forced the development of antiretroviral drugs and that's why me and many people are alive today.»

«Certainly, I grew up with a fair number of gay men in my life, and when the AIDS crisis hit, a lot of us stepped up and spoke out,» she said.

There are more people dying from drug overdoses overall than the number who died from AIDS at the peak of the AIDS crisis.

Clinton's shocking claim that Nancy Reagan was responsible for a «national conversation» on the AIDS crisis couldn't be explained at the time even by her campaign chairman.

[55] The rumor that Koch was a closet homosexual was further fueled by Larry Kramer, who often criticized Koch for not doing more about the HIV / AIDS crisis in the city.

Of course, the rest of the world does not consist merely of other industrial nations, and poor countries in the grip of the AIDS crisis want antiretroviral therapies at a price they can afford.

Given the scale of Africa's AIDS crisis, however, these projects are barely scratching the surface.

The CHRP was founded by the California state legislature in 1983 to respond to the growing HIV / AIDS crisis in the state.

Featured in magazines, commercials, advertisements, and named the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS in 2005, Seane Corn now utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV / AIDS crisis.

It was the early days of the AIDS crisis, he joined the original staff of the nation's first designated AIDS Unit, 5B (now 5A).

reading by the pool (this very interesting history of the AIDS crisis in America), and just relaxing.

Bill Sherwood's film is one of the first and most significant works (indie, of course) about the AIDS crisis that goes beyond the issue of coming out, placing its romantic triangle in the broader context of a vibrant gay community.

[Then] Vito exchanges its subtle storytelling technique for a sobering session of gay rights homework, resembling a recent raft of documentaries about the early years of the AIDS crisis.

It was made before Philadelphia, focuses on characters that are almost entirely gay men, it covers the entirety of the 1980s, offers a very honest portrait of the AIDS crisis, is a better movie, but Philadelphia is heralded as the definitive film about this subject.

This doc had all the eye candy I needed to keep my complete mental attention, but that said, it is also an honest and illuminating examination of gay cruising scenes in the 70s up until the AIDS crisis.

The film follows the HIV / AIDS crisis in New York City in the early...

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

Despite the fact that some gay activists think they should be expending their energy on the AIDS crisis, the members of LGSM feel it's important to show their solidarity with another oppressed minority.

Meanwhile, the more recent history of the AIDS crisis was the focus for the French submission.

Similarly, the film suffers from a common problem in biopics that span more than 50 years, in that the editing suddenly leaps forward to another time period, just as things are getting interesting — this is particularly frustrating in the depiction of the central romance, but it also short - changes the sequences set during the AIDS crisis.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.