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Impulse Group Condemns SCOTUS Decision Undermining Protections for LGBTQ+ Youth

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Impulse Group Condemns SCOTUS Decision Undermining Protections for LGBTQ+ Youth...
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AHF Honors Legacy of Global Health Advocate and Diplomat Stephen Lewis

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today mourned the passing of Stephen Lewis, a Canadian diplomat, humanitarian, and a prominent advocate in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Lewis, who served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from 2001 to 2006, brought urgency, moral clarity, and global attention to a crisis that was too often overlooked at a critical moment in the epidemic. Lewis helped push the world to confront the s...
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AHF exhorte les membres de l’OMC à ne pas mettre en péril l’accès aux médicaments abordables

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--L’AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) exhorte les gouvernements réunis à Yaoundé, au Cameroun, à l’occasion de la 14e Conférence ministérielle de l’OMC, à garantir le maintien du moratoire de longue date sur certains litiges en matière de propriété intellectuelle, connus sous le nom de « plaintes pour non-violation », en vertu de l’Accord de l’Organisation mondiale du commerce sur les aspects des droits de propriété intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce (ADPIC). Ce...
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Die AHF fordert die WTO-Mitglieder auf: Gefährden Sie nicht den Zugang zu erschwinglichen Medikamenten

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Die AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) fordert die Regierungen, die sich in Yaoundé, Kamerun, zur 14. Ministerkonferenz der WTO versammelt haben, nachdrücklich auf, die Fortführung des seit langem bestehenden Moratoriums für bestimmte Streitigkeiten im Bereich des geistigen Eigentums – bekannt als „Beschwerden wegen Nichtverletzung“ – im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über handelsbezogene Aspekte der Rechte des geistigen Eigentums (TRIPS) der Welthandelsorganisation siche...
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Workers with Disabilities to Assess Ford Conservatives’ Progress on Accessibility

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At a media conference tomorrow, workers with disabilities will join representatives of CUPE Ontario and the Ontario NDP critic for accessibility to offer their assessment of the Ford government’s record on the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. The AODA was intended to ensure, over a 20-year timeline, that public spaces and buildings were accessible to people with disabilities. But last year’s deadline came and went with no a...
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AHF Urges WTO Members: Don’t Put Affordable Medicines at Risk

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is urging governments meeting in Yaoundé, Cameroon, at the WTO 14th Ministerial Conference to ensure the continuation of the longstanding moratorium on certain intellectual property disputes—known as “non-violation complaints”—under the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). This moratorium has helped protect countries from WTO challenges for using TRIPS flexibiliti...
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Workers with Disabilities to Assess Ford Conservatives’ Progress on Accessibility

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At a media conference tomorrow, workers with disabilities will join representatives of CUPE Ontario and the Ontario NDP critic for accessibility to offer their assessment of the Ford government’s record on the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. The AODA was intended to ensure, over a 20-year timeline, that public spaces and buildings were accessible to people with disabilities. But last year’s deadline came and went with no a...
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Empower Applauds DOL Proposal Supporting Responsible Flexibility in Investment Choices

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Empower today welcomed the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed regulation on investment selection, calling it an important reaffirmation of long-standing fiduciary principles designed to protect retirement savers under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The Department’s current proposal, “Fiduciary Duties in Selecting Designated Investment Alternatives” takes a balanced, investment-neutral approach. It reinforces that those responsibl...
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GAO Report Strengthens Case for Congressional Action on CMMI

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The latest GAO report confirms what CCAGW has long warned: Since CMMI was established in Obamacare in 2010, it has squandered the taxpayer’s money....
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Foundation for the Development of Western Syria Warns of Dangerous Escalation Targeting the Christian Community in Syria and Threatening Civil Peace

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Foundation for the Development of Western Syria (the “Foundation”) expresses its strongest condemnation of a series of extremist attacks and coordinated movements witnessed across several Syrian provinces. These developments represent a dangerous escalation that threatens Syria’s social fabric and specifically targets the country’s indigenous Christian community. I. Attack on the City of Al-Suqaylabiyah According to field sources, a coordinated attack was carrie...