Archive for October 2013 | Monthly archive page
by Jamison Maeda
Fifteen years ago this week, a gay college student in Laramie Wyoming named Matthew Shepard was robbed, beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead. His attackers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson stole Matthew’s credit card, his shoes, and pistol-whipped him. At their trial, McKinney’s ex-girlfriend said the two men “pretended they were gay to get [Shepard] into the truck and rob him.”
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We are happy to pass on this statement for AIMS Ireland who are at the forefront in advancing proper maternity care in Ireland.
AIMS Ireland welcomes HIQA Savita report and recommendations: Condemning Irish maternity services as being ‘outdated’, ‘patently unsafe’, and a ‘geographic lottery’.
(Wednesday 9 October 2013) The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland) today welcomed the HIQA report into the safety, quality and standards of care of Savita Halappanavar and called for the HSE to immediately conduct a full review of maternity services as recommended in the report.
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Clare raised the issue of illegal adoptions in Ireland carried out over decades and access for those illegally adopted to the files that contain information relating to their identities.
by Jamison Maeda
Even experienced rangers were shocked at the horrific scene as the carcasses of 87 dead elephants were discovered in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. They had been poisoned and their tusks removed by poachers. And as hundreds of birds and other animals fed on the carcasses, soon they too would become victims of cyanide poisoning.
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