PRAGUE (Katerina Fialova for
GenderIT.org) – The 2012 Olympic Games are already having quite an
impact on sex workers in London. The Open Doors team of nurses has for
years relied on its knowledge of East London brothels to provide
critical sexual health advice, checkups and free condoms. In the run up
to the Olympics, police have closed a number of brothels over the last
12 months. More
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JUBA (Sthephen Kovats for r0g media) –
In the age of social networks, citizen media and digital collaboration,
#OSJUBA seeks to apply the means and tools of creative open source
culture to post-conflict development. #OSJUBA hosts their first event
on June 21, 2012 in Berlin to mobilise free culture, accessible
technologies and hacktivist communities in creating a vision for the
new capital of South Sudan. More
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DHAKA (Ahmed Swapan Mahmud for VOICE)
– As sustainable development was being discussed in the UN Conference
Rio+20, The Guardian asked a number of activists and researchers what
they thought about the conference and which changes they had seen since
the first summit 20 years ago. Read what APC member VOICE's Ahmed
Swapan Mahmud had to say about Bangladesh. More >
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